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COMPASS 360 - General items, what's on, comment and Windermere MBC
RANGE FINDER - Dave Wooley's Worldwide Review of Warships and Warship Modelling includes a look at RFA Argus and more super-detailing work on the Deans Marine HMS Skirmisher project, plus the usual brain teaser Mystery Picture.
BOILER ROOM - Richard Simpson discusses Pipework, its Fittings and Finishing
AROUND THE CLUBS - This includes news from the Sheffield Ship Model Society and Surface Warship Association
READERS' MODELS - SS Master and HMS Naird are featured
MOORING POST - Glynn Guest with some useful hints and tips
GALLERY - Jon Godsell presents Bibby Sapphire, a multi-role diving support vessel
FLOTSAM & JETSAM - John Parker looks at Pittman Motors
TEST BENCH - New items for the modeller
READERS' FREE CLASSIFIED - Your free private advertisements
BMPRS NEWS - Craig Dickson reports from Watermead Country Park and its exciting model power boat racing
PILOT 726 - James Pottinger presents this month's Complimentary Free Plan for a modern Swedish pilot boat
ANDY GOES AERONAUT! - Andrew Cope builds four model power boat kits from this well-known manufacturer
2016 LONDON MODEL ENGINEERING EXHIBITION - Dave Brumstead reports from Alexandra Palace, January 2016
TSS MANXMAN - PART TWO - Phil Button continues with his superb model of this famous Isle of Man fast ferry
Free Plan worth £12.50 for the Pilot Boat No. 726, a late-20th Century Swedish craft, being sold out of service in 2010, but still in existence today. The plan has been drawn by James Pottinger and it makes for a smart and interesting model project. In addition, Andy Cope returns with an excellent article about the Aeronaut range of wooden hulled leisure craft and they must be be good, because Andy has built four of them. We also have Part Two (of three) of Phil Button's TSS Manxman project in which he describes the design and installation of the steam plant.
In Readers' Models we feature Canadian Reader Bryon Calverley's outstanding 1:18 scale scratch built model of SS Master, plus have John Edwards' models of HMS Naird, and in Flotsam & Jetsam, John Parker looks at Pittman motors, the once very highly regarded electric power plants for our model boats.
Apart from these headline articles, Dave Brumstead visits the popular annual London Model Engineering Show at Alexandra Palace. This event has a strong marine presence with considerable trade support, albeit overall being targeted on model engineering, although much of which overlaps into our model boating hobby.
We have of course also all the other usual regular articles including Range Finder, Flotsam & Jetsam and Boiler Room, and so I hope there is something here for everyone in these pages of this April 2016 issue of Model Boats.
