Barry Lalonde’s Beam Trawler The inspiration for this model boat came from the BBC TV programme ‘Fish Town’, a series based on the fishing port of Brixham in Devon. The Beam Trawlers displayed in the series of programmes appealed to me as they were working boats, sitting firmly in the water and had lots of…
GARETH JONES overcomes the problem of moving a very heavy model For the past couple of years I have been building a 1:25 scale model of a modern Scottish trawler called Shemarah II which has been serialised on the MB Website Forum. The hull is quite compact, being only 43 inches long, but it is…
DAVE PETTS describes the construction of his WW2 German armed trawler The completed model afloat Following the completion of my last model I began looking around for another project and by chance ended up looking at the Kingston Mouldings website: www.kingstonmouldings.com. This manufacturer has quite a list of interesting models to build from their hulls,…
