Peter Charlton’s latest model Peter, a keen regular reader of Model Boats magazine, sent in some information recently about a new model of which he is particularly proud, two previous models of his also being featured in June 2014 MB. The model This is of a steam yacht from a plan for Greta, designed by…
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…
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…
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…
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…
