JOHN SEFTON’s first scratch built model Why choose the Edmund Gardner? For over thirty years I worked for the Mersey Docks and Harbour Board and spent much of that time travelling to and from work on the Mersey Ferries. This gave me ample opportunity to view the shipping on the Mersey, including such vessels as…
BRIAN JOHNSON with his hybrid water jet airboat After too many years away from modelling and the newly found availability of a local sailing club, a return to model boats early in 2007 seemed a good option so it was off to the model shop for the first of many visits. With nothing particular in…
RICHARD SIMPSON with further thoughts on weathering techniques In the last issue we had a look at two basic yet very effective and relatively easy to apply techniques, namely ‘Washes’ and ‘Dry Brushing’. We are now going to take this a step further and have a look at a few techniques to add to them…
DAVID J. WIGGINS with thanks to JOHN and PAUL DELL pays a last visit to the Motor Boat Museum Dave visited the Motor Boat Museum in Pitsea, Essex in November 2009. Sadly, subsequent to that and at short notice on 4th December 2009, the local council who own the site decided to close it for…
Portholes BRIAN KING with some thoughts Portholes go back a long way with me. It was all so easy then, I used a match, or a similar piece of wood, to put a spot of black gloss paint on the grey hull. Provided all the blobs were more or less the same size and in…
COLIN BISHOP visits this well known British kit manufacturer Jackie and Lawrie White – the heart of The Model Slipway I don’t suppose any regular reader of this magazine will be unaware of the extensive range of kits offered by the Model Slipway. Since the establishment of the company in 1989 they have established an enviable…
DAVE BRUMSTEAD with a regular look at the scale scene Photo 1Welcome to this month’s Focus on Scale. This issue we are making our first visit to the South West Model Engineering, Model Making and Hobbies Exhibition at the Royal Bath and West Showground, Shepton Mallet, Somerset and looking back at a short review of…
DAVE WOOLEY returns to this huge model The main entrance to MadurodamOn returning back from our usual yearly pilgrimage to the Intermodellbau event in Dortmund we have a one day stop over in Rotterdam. This time is spent visiting either the docks, museums and of course the city itself. This year a small party of…
TERRY LAWRENCE builds a 1907 Scottish Zulu fishing vessel When thinking of a static display model ship, many people think first of a hundred gun man-of-war and secondly then abandon the thought of a scratch build as a subject too difficult. Well yes it is, but you don’t have to start at the top and…
COLIN BISHOP visits this museum Mk.III 6 inch quick firing gun of 1893 as fitted to cruisers and battleships of the period. It could fire a 100lb shell to a range of 11,000 yards (9,900m). This example was originally fitted to the corvette HMS Calypso laid down at Chatham in 1881. At the back of…
