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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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