Roger Stollery updates Model Boats readers The September Chase meeting – Six Metre match racing The Model Yachting Association (MYA) looks after radio and free sailing in the UK and its Council makes the decisions that make this organisation the envy of the world. The new faces on the 2017 Council, include the Chairman, Terry…
CHARLIE OATES describes how to make these little devils I suppose that all the propellers we use on our models should be called miniature, but those we are concerned with here are the ones you can’t buy as far as I know. Why would you want to make your own small propeller? Okay then, I’ll…
A background piece about the author and his model boat plans Alfred Holt’s Blue Funnel cargo liner Helenus. Jim – the man James, known also as Jim, was born into a family of fishermen in a fishing village in Shetland. It was perhaps natural therefore that this environment would direct his interest to boats, ships…
Dave Milbourn tells us what works for him. Fairey Swordsman Three different methods of covering and finishing balsa and ply wood models There is no agreed “best practice” here. This is just the way I did it – there are numerous variations on the same themes. Suit yourselves; it works for me. Tissue and sanding…
