Stephen Bowles’ lightship model I am relatively new to boat modelling, but have learnt that you start thinking of your next project a long time before the current one is finished. So, the Brave Borderer scratch build project was incomplete when I started Spurn LV14 (LV means Light Vessel) and why this one? Well, I…
Graham Buckton describes his model Some years ago, whilst at the CADMA Show in Doncaster, I was offered a drifter hull and plan. I was not in the market for a fishing boat, but having inspected the hull I paid the £20 asking price. Although quite old, it was a well-made of fibreglass with above…
Model Engineer Exhibition 2014 Colin Bishop reports The 2014 exhibition was considered to be very successful from the model boating viewpoint by all those whom I spoke to. This was to a very large extent due to the excellent club stands with a huge variety of top quality models which really did go down well…
GARETH JONES builds something a bit different Nessie’s origins are rather unusual for a radio controlled model. She started life as the subject of a bet between my wife Elizabeth and Sean Stewart, a freelance photographer who occasionally visits Goole MBC to take photographs for local and national newspapers. The subject of the Loch Ness…
Canadian Warship models photographed by JOHN CALLIN Steve is a Canadian, of British Columbia, reader of this magazine and Glynn Guest persuaded him, with John Callin’s assistance, to send to us some pictures and details of his outstanding models. Steve Martin A bit of history! His first model was a 1:96 scratch-built HMS Exeter, made…
CADMA Northern Model Boat Show – 2014 GARETH JONES reports The Conisbrough and District Modelling Association (CADMA) held their annual show in the sports hall of the Doncaster Deaf Trust early in June. This is the second year this venue has been used and it seems to be proving popular as there were more clubs…
ROBIN BUCKLAND visits a new display An article in Model Boats in July 1990 covered the production of a children’s TV programme called ‘Tugs’. That feature closed with the words, ‘Now shooting is long over, and before perhaps a second series, each of Clearwater’s precious tugboats have been carefully packed away in boxes and locked…
DIRK BONNE’S 1:72 scale model More than fifty years ago when still a little boy, my model making had already started! My father served as a crew member on the Ostend to Dover ferry route and after every voyage he offered me a present, usually a Dinky toy or a small Airfix plane kit in…
