How she developed, or a ‘Comedy of Errors’! PHIL BUTTON’S scratch-built steam model, 1996 to 2011 Many model builders do not like to admit that things have gone wrong during their build of a particular model. Like our Model Boats regular contributor Glynn Guest, I am always worried when things have gone rather too well,…
DAVE WOOLEY’s semi-scale model built in eleven days! In late 2011, my five year old grandson was introduced to ship models with a visit to the Fleet Air Arm Museum and later his father took him along the Thames to see HMS Belfast and it was here that he first sighted a modern river police…
The Reverend PETER SPENCER describes his scratch built topsail schooner Brief History The topsail schooner Result was built of steel at Carrickfergus, Northern Ireland, between 1892 and 1893. She was designed to sail quickly and turned out to be one of the fastest and most successful schooners ever to sail in British waters. Her registered…
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…
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…
The free plan to a scale of 1:20, drawn by James Pottinger in the October 2004 issue of Model Boats provided me with an opportunity to build a model boat that had an appealing shape, ought to be simple to build and within my ability. The 45ft Admiralty MFV was a type of service craft…
When I started to build radio controlled model boats some number of years ago my hulls were all scratch built for a number of reasons: 1. My models were mainly built from plans for which a commercial, (fibreglass), hull was not available. 2. I enjoyed working with my hands, and I also enjoyed working with…
