Build Features

Great Eastern sails again!

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Colin Bishop

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19 July 2012

ROBERT ABELL describes the making of the Atlantic cable laying feature for the BBC Coast programme A bit of background […]
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Sally Slade

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Colin Bishop

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20 June 2012

ROBERT HOBBS restores a vintage ketch Paul Freshney was kind enough to publish details of a restoration project on my […]
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Thames River Police Launch

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Colin Bishop

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19 June 2012

DAVE WOOLEY’s semi-scale model built in eleven days! In late 2011, my five year old grandson was introduced to ship […]
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MIGHTY SERVANT 3

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Colin Bishop

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6 June 2012

JEAN-PIERRE COURVOISIER scratch builds an amazing 1:100 scale model Her name is indicative of her function. ‘Mighty’ means she is […]
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USS INDEPENDENCE LCS-2

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Colin Bishop

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3 April 2012

BRIAN JOHNSON builds a water jet powered 1:110 scale Littoral Combat Ship Principal dimensions Overall length: 1162mm Beam: 288mm The […]
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Branksome

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Colin Bishop

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18 January 2012

THOR FROHN-NIELSEN, a Canadian reader of MB, describes his part-built model Naivety, stupidity or just ego? I’ve regularly shaken my […]
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The River Cruiser Dubarry

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Colin Bishop

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23 November 2011

A revival of a classic river cruiser design, length 28.5 inches, presented by COLIN BISHOP
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Flying Dolphin

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Colin Bishop

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26 October 2011

RON TERLICH describes his model built from a Model Boats Free Plan First, I would like to make it clear […]
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The late-Victorian Navy: Part Two

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Colin Bishop

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26 October 2011

By BRIAN KING Following on from Part One in June MB, some idea of the scope of the Victorian Navy […]
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Skimmer

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Web Admin

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5 September 2011

When we moved to rural location some twenty years ago, I immediately started to spy out the land for modelling […]
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