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…
COLIN BISHOP photographs a replica of a traditional French sailing sloop Saint Jeanne makes a trim sight alongside the breakwater at Erquy. The vertical timbers amidships are grounding legs to enable her to dry out at low tide. Once or twice a year my wife and I take advantage of the Brittany Ferries 24hr excursion…
When we moved to rural location some twenty years ago, I immediately started to spy out the land for modelling activities. The river flowing through the village had a small pool, the only remnant of a watermill I believe. It was rather on the small size and could be turbulent when the river was in…
DAVE WOOLEY with his World Wide Review of Warships and Warship Modelling Welcome once again to our regular sortie into the world of fighting ships. This month we are having a look at some of the exhibits on offer at the National Cold War Exhibition. We also examine a 1:72 scale INS Mumbai destroyer built…
