Marine Modelling International June 2011

Contents:

REGULARS

MESSAGE FROM THE BRIDGE
A few words from the editor on this month's edition

MASTHEAD
All the latest maritime news and views

DIARY DATES
Maritime events for the next month

SAIL FREE
Chris Jackson with news from the R/C sailing world

PLASTIC KIT SCENE
Robin Trott looks at some new and updated maritime plastic kit models

LIVEWIRES
Allan describes how to adjust and balance props

WATERLINES
Kelvin Holmes on The Ferries of P&O Part 1

SCALE SCENE
Ian Williams continues to look at anchors and chains

MEETING POINT
Reports on events over the past few months

VIEW FROM THE BRIDGE
Full size shipping recently seen in the Solent

VINTAGE MOTOR SHED
John Parker continues his series this month on Marx Motors – 1

READERS MODELS
Readers share their models with us

AIRWAVES
Guest writer Steve Dean gives us an incite into LEDs

CHANDLERY
Some new hardware of interest to maritime modellers




FEATURES

CLUB OF THE MONTH
Brian Young describes the Swindon Model Boat & Engineering Club

SOVIET VICTOR III SUBMARINE
Adrian Coccaro introduces his scratch-built R/C submarine with static diving system

BERTIE’S BOTTLE BOAT
Andy Trewin designs and builds another fun bottle boat!!

DKM AUXILIARY PATROL STURM
Chris Koenig with the history of the Kriegsmarine auxiliary patrol boat ‘Sturm’

TRUE WORLD
John De Broske introduces the idea that a modeller can be an impressionist artist

HMS DARING
Robin tells us how he built the review of this plastic kit