Innehållsförteckning för June 2022 från Model Boats

Diminutive giants This story starts with an approximately 1296mm long, approximately 1:70 scale, model of a four-masted barquentine, based on the sister ships Mozart and Beethoven I built some years ago. Having already built two earlier models at similar scales, she sailed predictably well. What I hadn’t envisaged during her construction, however, was how inspirational and horizon broadening she would prove to be going forward… Back then, I had a modelling mentor, a friend who had built models of almost everything, from boats, in wood, to working steam locos, made, of course, from metal. Bob had watched me move on from copying his yachts to building square-riggers and, consequently, decided to make his own four-masted barquentine, so asked to borrow my plans. I was delighted to oblige and looked forward…

All hands on deck! RMS CARPATHIA & CO I was interested to see your Carpathia article in the October 2021 Since receiving some of old family photos from dad some years ago, I’ve always been fascinated by the history of the famous rescue ship RMS Carpathia, on which my grandfather sailed to the European battles during World War I. She, therefore, became my model boat building project of choice over the long Covid winter of 2020-21, and I built her to 1:144 scale, as accurately as possible using some museum drawings, internet photos and my grandfather’s family photos (more on which below) for reference purposes. Launched in 1902 at Newcastle upon Tyne England, Carpathia was designed for the travel of Hungarian immigrants to North America. She was not a fast…

● A FREE PULL-OUT PLAN FOR OSPREY Plus a helpful guide to building this pretty little freelance trip boat ● Bristol Channel Pilot Cutter Back to the ‘Age of Romance’ – via the potting shed! ● USS Roosevelt (DDG-80) A 1:96 scale model of this Arleigh Burke-class destroyer with a particularly nifty working feature! PLUS A thematically varied selection of feature-length articles, all your favourite regular pages – including Your Models, Your Letters, news, reviews – and lots more (Please note: content may be subject to change) You will find more about the exciting content coming next, features of particular interest you may have missed in past editions and details of the very latest subscription offers on our website at www.modelboats.co.uk You can, of course, order you copy of the…

Signals If you have a news story for these pages, please contact the Editor, Lindsey Amrani, via e-mail at editor@modelboats.co.uk WIN A COPY OF WARSHIP 2022! This month, courtesy of the kind folks at Osprey Publishing, we’re giving you the chance to win the latest edition of this celebrated annual, as reviewed below by model warship aficionado Dave Woolley… “From a personal perspective, my interest in the Warship annuals began with the quarterly journals of the 1980s and continues to this very day, so I was delighted to be asked to review the 2022 edition. The current Editor, John Jordan, and the Assistant Editor, Stephen Dent, have kept faith with the basic tenant, which is to give both a broad overview of, and a much more in-depth insight into, various…

Prop wash project Where do I find them, eh? Well, in this case I came across a very small picture of the Larsen Aqua Aircar while searching under ‘Airboats’ on the internet – as you do! Intrigued, I then clicked on the link to the internet page where this image resided, i.e., the ‘ACBS’, or ‘American Classic Boat Society’ in longhand. It’s no secret in the model boating community that I have a real fascination with the weird and wonderful, so I quickly began considering the craft as a potential project. Unable to resist, I emailed the ACBS and was put in touch with the current owner, Paul Miller. Paul bought this boat in a very dilapidated state and has since restored it to a very high standard. He was…

Memory Lane When it comes to craft-based hobbies, including model boat building, we all have to start somewhere – and preferably, while we’re still ‘testing the water’, without having to spend a small fortune. This isn’t something new and even back in the day the big British model concerns, such as Ripmax, Veron and Keil Kraft, realised they needed to include within their extensive ranges of goods some simpler models, offered at low (or at least affordable) prices in order to tempt ‘pocket money’ spending youngsters (or their Christmas and birthday gift buying parents!), alongside the higher cost bits of kit, such as the glow-plug (or diesel) engines featured last month and the expensive radio gear aimed at ‘serious’ adult enthusiasts. And Eddie Keil’s very smallest model kits served that…

Completing the mission Picking up from where we left off last month, the next stage is to build the remaining larger structural items before adding all the fittings and other fine detailing. Do keep in mind that, because of the very limited space available below deck, landing craft like the LCT 3 had a lot of different fittings and gear visible on the upper deck that would be stowed out of sight in a larger vessel. How much of this detail you decide to include on your model will depend on a number of factors, including whether it is likely to be too fragile on a working model and also how much patience you have when working with lots of tiny pieces of plastic and photoetching! Deckhouse The largest item…

Classic transatlantic passenger liner Empress of Canada was Canadian Pacific Steamships’ last ocean-going passenger ship and then became Carnival Corporation’s first cruise ship Mardi Gras. Younger readers may not be aware that before World War II the only way for most travellers to go overseas was by ship. In the 26 years following the end of the war, Canadian Pacific Steamships operated a service between Liverpool, Greenock and Montreal and you could have travelled on one of its ‘White Empresses’. Almost every week one of them could be seen at Liverpool’s Princes Landing Stage, her bright white hull stark against the soot-blackened Liver Building (see Photo 1). Empress of Canada was completed in 1961 by Vickers-Armstrong at its shipyard at Walker, Newcastle upon Tyne for Canadian Pacific Steamships Ltd, which…

Flotsam & Jetsam Australia’s association with submarines has not always been a happy one. There was the early loss of AE1 and AE2 in World War I and short-lived attempts to operate J-Class and O-Class submarines at times of great financial restraint in the inter-war years. More recently, the Australian designed Collins Class submarine suffered a protracted and difficult development program that attracted much negative comment from the media, and the cancellation of the French Barracuda contract in favour of the AUKUS UK/USA agreement is causing further controversy. But the decision in 1963 to order the Oberon class submarine proved to be a sound one and the boat served the country well from 1967 to 2000. Background The Royal Navy (RN) maintained the 4th Submarine Flotilla consisting of T-Class and…

Letters can either be forwarded via email to editor@modelboats.co.uk or via post to Readers’ Letters, Mortons Media Group, Media Centre, Morton Way, Horncastle, Lincs LN9 6JR ADMIRALTY MFVs I was most pleased to see Charles Chamber’s excellent and realistic ‘MFV Ocean Crest’ model in the May issue of Model Boats. I drew the original model plans for this a number of years ago (which show it’s a 75ft, not 65ft, boat) for a company I think was then called Jotika, who developed these into a kit. Actually, this example was not known as Ocean class but was in fact one of the vessels known collectively as Admiralty MFVs, a series of 45ft, 61.5ft, 75ft (as per the model) and 90ft craft. The latter was developed from a Richards Shipbuilders design…