Chris Drage explains how to build these miniatures – part 5 In Part Four in the previous July issue of Model Boats, I attempted to introduce a landscape into a ship-based diorama. Although the fjord-based scenes depicted proved quite successful and within the bounds of artistic licence, a realistic diorama depicting rough water had not…
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…
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…
