Website: www.mpba.org.uk Established 1924 From KEN GOULD and DAVE ABBOTT Straight Running Section Long before the introduction of radio control, models were mostly sent around in circles or across the pond and nudged back the way they came by the owner or a friend. The other main activity of the day was ‘Straight Running’. This…
ANTHONY ADDAMS creates a period yacht based on a Fairwind kit The pleasure I get from sailing Sea Bird is immeasurable, Photo 1. In over 50 years I have never had an r/c model yacht, so this is the story of Sea Bird. The Kyosho Fairwind kit This kit has been popular for some years…
This year’s Exhibition will be held on 9th, 10th & 11th December. Click here to see full details and download competition entry forms. Long term exhibitor and award winner Brian King offers some advice on entering the competition classes. Entering the Model Engineer Exhibition? By BRIAN KING It was in 1980 that I first, rather timidly, entered…
CARL A. LLOYD presents a novel leak proof method for model boat drivelines I have long had a fascination for model boats and in particular, tugboats. Perhaps this is due to my career as a mechanical engineer and my interest in all things mechanical, or my exposure to tugs on the Erie Canal in New…
Bob Abell’s S.S. Great Eastern A request from the producers of the BBC series of ‘Coast’ was made to Bob Abell who is well known to modellers and on the Model Boats Website Forum. His superb model of S.S. Great Eastern was needed to recreate the laying of the first transatlantic telegraph cable by Brunel’s…
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,…
COLIN BISHOP, with help from PHIL ABBOTT, looks at the history and current activity Origins Although it isn’t really clear just when powered model boats became popular, it is probably fair to say that this would have been in the latter part of the 19th century when miniature representations of full size powered vessels appeared,…
RICHARD SIMPSON and some thoughts on these useful techniques Whether or not to add weathering to a model is one of those subjects that will be discussed to the end of time and most people seem to have a very definite preference as to how they finish their models. Some prefer the pristine ‘out of…
