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…
RICHARD SIMPSON’s mini-series on model steam plants For expanded captions for some of the photos go directly to the Album One particular area of model steam plants that seems to generate more discussion than most is the control of gas to the burner. There are a number of options available and a lot of modellers…
CHRIS BROWN, an Australian reader, describes his model I fell in love with this steam powered launch having had a ride on her when we visited Coniston Water in the UK Lake District in 2009 when I took some pictures, but of course not nearly enough of them. Fortunately I struck up an ongoing contact…
By ALAN FURNESS Whilst some modellers prefer to use preformed GRP or plastic hulls and styrene sheet for the superstructure of their boats, others including myself are dedicated to the use of wood for the hull, most of the superstructure and many of the other components needed to complete the model. The idea I have…
ANTHONY ADDAMS converts his fishing boat into a tug When Ron Smith said he was arranging a special day at our pond for tug towing, I said: “I do not have a tug’! He said that so long as I could add a hook for towing to any of my model boats, that would at…
