Marine Modelling International November 2010

Contents:

REGULARS

MESSAGE FROM THE BRIDGE
A few words to introduce this month’s edition from the Editor

MASTHEAD
Maritime related news and events

DIARY DATES
Events listings for the next few months

CHANDLERY
New hardware of interest to the maritime modeller

MARINE MAIL
A dig into the Editor’s postbag and emails

SCALE SCENE
Ian Williams looks at two alternative ‘green’ propulsion systems

SAIL FREE
Chris Jackson with news from the radio yachting world

STEAM SCENE
Fitting and trimming your steam plant in your chosen hull

POWERPLUG
RTR boat fix ups and sorting ‘gremlins’

TIFFY'S WORKSHOP 29
Tiffy’s Puffer – a practical workshop project

PLASTIC KIT SCENE
Robin Trott builds an Ironclad battleship and looks at some items for the plastic kit modeller

AIRWAVES
Alan Senior answers some readers’ electrical and radio related questions including more information on using brushless motors

LIVEWIRES
Allan Shillitto looks at Fast Electric boats and starts to examine some of the things that can make a boat run better

WATERLINES
Kelvin Holmes looks at post-war Aircraft Carriers of the USN

MEETING POINT
Reports of events held over the past few months




FEATURES

A DIFFERENT JUNK
John Cox describes a very non-scale version of a Chinese Junk

THE BLACK ROSE
Mark Steele describes a ‘twofooty’ 8 Gun pirate brig for fantasy pond play with centre spread plans

MORE MEASUREMENTS AFLOAT
Chris describes his upgrade for collecting data from your model with a standalone Data Logger

NOISY THING?
Steve gives an in-depth account of how the ACTion R/C Electronics P100 Digital Sound Module works

TORPEDO BOAT VOSPER 70 FT IN HAVANA
The tale of a model build in Cuba with limited resources and how things can go horribly wrong even with a team effort!

SHAMROCK
Tony James describes his ownership of his full size Colchester oyster smack and the build of his model

MMI VISITS NO 1 SMITHERY CHATHAM DOCKYARD
Patrick Boniface visits the final stage of this £13M project now open to the public