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[bobdylan62]

Hello to evey1,, its comming up to my 50th birthday and i've asked the family to buy my a couple of model boat kits (i,m not new to modeling as i've build a few railway layouts and painted losts of model boats). has anyone got any thoughts what kits best to buy around £150-200 ...CHEERS Jp 

[essex2visuvesi]

what sort of thing are you into? military, fishing, pleasure, passenger?

Also are you planning on RC or static?

These will make a huge impact on reccomendations

[Artistmike]

Also what materials do you like working in, Wood, GRP, ABS? ..... Oh and welcome to the forum, lots of advice here, they'll soon have you broke !.. 

[bobdylan62]

Hi Chaps, thanks for getting back so soon no its got to be r/c all the way and I don't mind abs wood, wood with fiber-glass hull and i real like old RN stuff ( ie launches gunboats , not big ships) and old tugs, i've just built a SHG victorian steam launch with my own twist on it, made the plastic seats look like leather and wood grained the decks and i build a kitshack tug a big learning curve  ....cheers Jp

[frazer heslop]

Have a look on the Kingstone mouldings site,some nice toys there