Pic 1: Damsels rescued and now being safely returned to the landing stage. Only a little first aid was needed apart from the application of some ‘after sun’ cream. It was another very hot day with plenty of sun when a report came through that two young ladies had fallen from their sailing dinghy. This…
Pic 1 to 3: Burnaby Models in British Columbia, pictured by John Tarvin in early 2006. Fair bit of stock in the shop! Dear-oh-dear, it’s autumn again! From last month’s unusual foray into the early years of rock-n-roll cruising on the ‘Daff’, this month’s edition sits on more familiar ground. I’m going to start this…
Pic 1, Pic 2, Pic 01: Cabin deck detail. Pic 02: Underside of hull just painted. The original vessel was completed in 1992 and its top speed of 124 km/h made it, at the time, the fastest Mega Yacht in the world. The yacht was designed by Frank Mulder of the Mulder Design Studio, based…
Pic 1, Pic 2, Pic 3, Pic 4, Pic 5, Pic 6, Pic 1: Kit contents. Pic 2: Using Stabilit Express resin. Pic 3: Motor and mount. Pic 4: Motor, coupling and stern tube installed. Pic 5: View of the transom and hydro unit. Pic 6: Mast assembly. This new release from Graupner of a…
Pic 1, Pic 1: This fine oil of ‘Royal Daffodil’ by Colin Moore headed up my January 2006 Xmas Special and triggered memories of an unusual cruise from Southend, 40 years ago for reader Clive Waters. Painting courtesy of Colin Moore. The good old ‘Daff’! ‘Well, what a surprise’ said Clive, before going on, ‘You…
Pic 1, Pic 2, Pic 3, Pic 4, Pic 5, Pic 6, Pic 7, Pic 1: There are two large 0.5mm thick brass sheets included with Andrea’s 1:32 scale U-Boat provide full deck areas and conning tower details. Here is one of them. Pic 2: Of thinner gauge (0.3mm), the third brass etch set offers…
In a country where rainfall is a far scarcer commodity than in the UK, it is heartening to see that virtually every new suburban housing development in Melbourne, Australia, now seems to incorporate some sort of water feature. These may vary from a small creek to a series of ponds to quite large lakes, often…
Intermodellbau Dortmund 2007 Intermodellbau is like no other model show. In fact it is more an experience and this year was no exception. My brief is of course to see what is new on the warship scene and this show never fails. This year there were a good crop of interesting exhibits and displays and…
HMS Endurance I had a telephone call from a mutual friend, Bob Powis, around the end of March, who asked if I was interested in taking photographs of John Mansfield’s model of HMS Endurance. I contacted John who gave some brief details of the model and we arranged to meet at the Grays Thurrock Model…
By a rough and possibly less than accurate calculation, I reckon that this is the 188th vintage and collectors column I have written and photographed for Model Boats magazine. I was minded to aim for a round 200, but after 16.5 years of pumping out 12 and sometimes even 18 columns per annum, my resolve…
