An new 1:87 scale kit for HMS Victory which takes things to a whole new level is now available from OcCre. Developed by expert craftsmen for over two years, and officially licensed by the National Museum of the Royal Navy, this limited edition kit (restricted to 999 units for distribution worldwide), which includes over 4,000…
Chris Drage explains how to build these miniatures – part 5 In Part Four in the previous July issue of Model Boats, I attempted to introduce a landscape into a ship-based diorama. Although the fjord-based scenes depicted proved quite successful and within the bounds of artistic licence, a realistic diorama depicting rough water had not…
1:700 SCALE NAVAL DIORAMAS In the May issue of MB we discussed a diorama depicting HMS Eskimo in a Norwegian fjord with her bow mostly destroyed, and I was now keen to improve on this theme. As far as available model and reference materials were concerned, apart from modelling KM Tirpitz, the only other subjects…
In the March 2008 issue of Model Boats, John who has Parkinson’s Disease described how he successfully overcame his medical problem and continued to gain much pleasure from his hobby. Here follows his description of the construction of his next model from Jotika Nelson’s Navy – Paul Freshney Brief history Cutters were designed and built…
Colin Bishop describes the Ark’s departure from Portsmouth to a Turkish scrapyard Monday 20th May 2013. A grey sky and a chilly wind seemed to be an appropriate backdrop to the departure of the Royal Navy’s former Flagship HMS Ark Royal to ignominious scrapping in Turkey. Prematurely decommissioned in 2011 as part of Defence cuts…
South African reader PAT KEOGH describes his latest model When I think back over the years and when I started in 1975 purchasing my first set of plans from David McGregor, it strikes me as quite as humorous that it has taken so many years to actually start building models properly. In fact the first…
Kim White’s first model boat The subject of this article is a model of the County class Royal Navy DDG that was first commissioned in 1966. The eight ships of the class were the first RN vessels with gas turbines for speed plus a steam plant for cruising and the first with a missile armament,…
Tony Dalton describes his semi-scale model On my retirement, like most people I reverted to gardening and doing jobs around the house, including decorating. It did not take me long to get bored with that, to which end I re-kindled an interest in my old hobby of model making. I retrieved the old models from…
PAT KEOGH’S creations The time has come the walrus said, to speak of many things, of shoes and socks and sealing wax, and cabbages and kings! My story of the two models of HMS Warspite started with an article in Fine Scale Models some years ago with twin models of USS Tennessee, one at the…
