Pic 1, Pic 2, Pic 3, Pic 4, Pic 5, Pic 6, H.M.S. Fly was built at Sheerness Dockyard and launched in September 1776. She was one of the large number of Swan class ship rigged sloops designed by Sir John Williams, sleek of line and one of the last of its size to have…
Welcome once again to our regular sortie into the world of fighting ships. This month sees a visit to the Birchwood Model Boat Convention; also for the first time a look at a number of new products from the trade; the developing photo-etched products of Cammett Ltd.; and a brief look at the all-new Multiplex…
I yield to no-one in my admiration for those paragons of scratch building who, year after year, walk off with the Gold Medals at the ME and other exhibitions. Such celebrated exponents as Brian King bring to their work an engineering approach which ensures accuracy and imposes an impressive degree of quality control in everything…
This issue we are writing about soldering, a little bit more about the Multiplex Cockpit SX R/C system and our visit to the Weymouth International Maritime Modelling Festival. Metcalf Mouldings Waveney Lifeboat, ‘The Scout’ In a previous Focus on Scale, mention has been made of using various melting point solders to build up a prefabricated…
Pic 1, Pic 2, Pic 3, This 1:24 scale model of the Bluebird has been on the market for only a short time. It was primarily marketed as a static model but could be converted for rocket power or fast electric control. This article hopes to show both the detailed static model and the conversion…
When I started to build radio controlled model boats some number of years ago my hulls were all scratch built for a number of reasons: 1. My models were mainly built from plans for which a commercial, (fibreglass), hull was not available. 2. I enjoyed working with my hands, and I also enjoyed working with…
Marten, Howes and Baylis’ 1:24 scale kit Pic 1, Amongst the quality kit makers Marten, Howes and Baylis must rank pretty high and I always look at their stand at trade shows. I was particularly impressed with a polyurethane casting of a clinker-built 23ft gig that Brian Marten showed me a couple of years ago.…
Voith-Schneider powered harbour tug kit from Graupner Pic 1, Pic 2, Pic 3, Pic 4, Pic 5, The full-size vessel was built in 1983 by the Detlef Hegemann Roland Dockyard and Parat was delivered to the Hamburg based Lutgens & Reimers shipping company. Pic 1: The mast constructed and primed. Pic 2: Bow detail showing…
Revells Queen Mary Pic 1, Pic 2, Pic 3, Pic 4, Queen Mary 2 December 31st, midnight 2003, and a familiar sound was heard across Southampton – the Queen Marys fog horn. This same note had not been heard since 1968 when the old Queen Mary sailed for America for the last time – I…
