A great boating pond, welcoming members and some magnificent models await you!
With the Fairey Huntsman being the most popular club model, we will feature as many of these as we can. (If you have one, bring it to the pond to be photographed or contact us with a picture) There must be at least 10 of these belonging to club members. Based on a 1960’s wooden boat, with marine ply featuring in the cabin roof overhang, it is incredibly popular with model model makers across the country.The most popular kits are by Anglia Models who have a 34” and 48” model with the choice of a wooden full build or a plastic pre formed hull. On the water, the models sail really well and though more or less to scale, everyone uses a little poetic licence in finishing the model. The model on the left is mine and the other one is Charlie’s.
If you’d like to build one then take a look at my blog and fully detailed build with photo’s at every stage then click here
Scale Model Kits
Fairey Huntsman Examples
Feature Model
Tugs, trawlers and working boats
Battleships and scale models
Alan’s Spooner’s tug “Altei Leibe” was featured in the Dec 2011 Newsletter.
Click here to read the article.
Alan carried out extensive research into the origins of this German ship.