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…
DAVE WOOLEY visits the reserve ship model collection After my visit to the new Riverside Museum of Transport in Glasgow and the subsequent report in this magazine I was asked if I would like to see the reserve collection of ship models which is now housed in the Glasgow Museums Resource Centre, a brand new…
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,…
How she developed, or a ‘Comedy of Errors’! PHIL BUTTON’S scratch-built steam model, 1996 to 2011 Many model builders do not like to admit that things have gone wrong during their build of a particular model. Like our Model Boats regular contributor Glynn Guest, I am always worried when things have gone rather too well,…
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…
David Heaps builds a model of this Scottish Ferry based on a James Pottinger plan Background TSMV Bute was a Clyde car and passenger ferry of the mid-1950’s. My attention was drawn to this vessel by a very informative article by James Pottinger in the April 2007 edition of Model Boats magazine. Not only was…
Dr. MARCUS ROOKS converts the Doyusha kit to steam power A bit of history…. At 1057hrs on the 29th November 1944, the new Japanese aircraft carrier IJN Shinano then on her maiden voyage, capsized and sank near Cape Ushio off Japan’s coast after a torpedo attack. Thus, an undignified end to a very short operational…
