PETER WHITEHEAD goes small! During the early 1970’s, Roger Stollery’s new lightweight A class boat ‘Clockwork Orange’ was the centre of much interest. Model Boats showed the boat’s plans in miniature and because I had some scrap balsa wood, I made a miniature model of it, about 4.5 inches long. It was so quick (it…
DAVE PETTS’ Mini-Series I have never really had any interest in any form of purely static model, as for example I believe that a model aeroplane should actually be able to fly, so you will appreciate that these articles are all aimed at functional craft as opposed to static display models. For this reason. the…
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…
ANTHONY ADDAMS researches these small sailing craft The Nile is home to feluccas that flitter about busily like butterflies, so please read on and enjoy an armchair sail. Have you been to Aswan? If you have, then you will probably have been struck by the beauty of seeing graceful white sail feluccas ghosting across the…
Pic 1: The basic parts of the Sail Winch., Following my successful conversion of the small static Billings Colin Archer kit to a sailing model (see Model Boats June 2007), I decided to introduce the Billings Lilla Dan static display model to a similar fate. However, one aspect that I thought to be essential, was…
