4 APRIL 2015 http://www.marinemodelmagazine.com
APRIL 2015 – ISSUE 337
CONTENTS
In the
continued
series of
Britain’s
industrial past
workboats,
Tony James
describes
the gravel
barges used
in the Taw
and Torridge
estuaries.
This was very
manual work
but important
for building the
docks in the
Bristol Channel. The model Tony built and shown on the front
cover is a static model at 1:24 scale of the gravel barge JJRP
built using an old photograph.
Regulars
5 MESSAGE FROM THE ENGINE ROOM
The assistant editor introduces this month’s edition
6 MASTHEAD
Items of news of interest to the maritime modeller
7 DIARY DATES
Events for your diaries
10 MEETING POINT
A report on the recent London Model Engineers
Exhibition
12 PLASTIC KIT SCENE
Some of the latest released kits and items of interest
for the plastic kit modeller
14 SCALE SCENE
Ian looks at how to draw straight waterlines on
your hull
18 SAIL FREE
How to put out a yachting course, introducing the
Goth XP and casting keel weights
22 VINTAGE CHATTER
Frog engines
24 POWERPLUG
Onboard IC hull radio boxes are Rick’s theme
this month
28 WATERLINES
Kelvin travels back in time to 1937 to review the fleet
74 COMING NEXT MONTH
Some of the articles in the planning stage for the May
edition
Features
32 HMS TANATSIDE
Allan Miller builds a Deans Marine kit and gives some
useful tips
38 TERN
This month’s FREE PLAN of a small, modern
workboat
40 CHIMAERA
The build of a 1/33rd scale model of a beautiful 19th
century English Pilot Cutter
46 WARSHIPS IN PLASTIC – PT 2
Models of battleships from the Pre-Dreadnoughts
through to the Super-Dreadnoughts
54 GRAVEL BARGES
Tony James discovers some forgotten hard-working
heroes of Britain’s industrial past
62 MOVEABLE FEAST
Neville Wade describes the challenges associated
with moving house when model boats are involved
68 TUG COOK
Allan Grafton shares some interesting details on
scratch building and sailing a 58" model tug
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