ROBERT ABELL describes the making of the Atlantic cable laying feature for the BBC Coast programme A bit of background Brunel’s Great Eastern needs no introduction to most people, as this colossal vessel completed in 1860 and years ahead of her time, was intended to be able to make the round voyage from Britain to…
ROBERT HOBBS restores a vintage ketch Paul Freshney was kind enough to publish details of a restoration project on my 1920’s 10 Rater in the May 2010 issue. Sometimes these articles produce a few questions and this resulted in Paul passing to me details of someone who had a large ketch which he had sailed…
DAVE WOOLEY’s semi-scale model built in eleven days! In late 2011, my five year old grandson was introduced to ship models with a visit to the Fleet Air Arm Museum and later his father took him along the Thames to see HMS Belfast and it was here that he first sighted a modern river police…
JEAN-PIERRE COURVOISIER scratch builds an amazing 1:100 scale model Her name is indicative of her function. ‘Mighty’ means she is impressive and ‘Servant’ means to serve! Her role is as a heavy transport vessel and she is actually a semi-submersible ship designed to transport objects or structures which cannot be transported in the usual maritime…
BRIAN JOHNSON builds a water jet powered 1:110 scale Littoral Combat Ship Principal dimensions Overall length: 1162mm Beam: 288mm The idea It was January 2011 and the middle of a long winter with new models awaiting trials on more clement days, so what better time than to think of another model? Having established a liking…
THOR FROHN-NIELSEN, a Canadian reader of MB, describes his part-built model Naivety, stupidity or just ego? I’ve regularly shaken my head and marvelled at the gall to think I could scratch build the late-Victorian steam launch Branksome to a scale of 1:12 as I had not built a model since I was 17, alas some…
By BRIAN KING Following on from Part One in June MB, some idea of the scope of the Victorian Navy can be gleaned from the figures given in the Defence Act of 1889 when 70 new vessels costing £21.5 million over five years were ordered. Of course the Empire that we had at that time…
RON TERLICH describes his model built from a Model Boats Free Plan First, I would like to make it clear that I am new to scratch building radio control boats and when I built the Flying Dolphin I had not yet joined a model boat club, so although the methods I employed worked for me,…
When we moved to rural location some twenty years ago, I immediately started to spy out the land for modelling activities. The river flowing through the village had a small pool, the only remnant of a watermill I believe. It was rather on the small size and could be turbulent when the river was in…
