Mayhem News - 2004
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Wednesday 5 January  2005
Great new gallery from my mate 'Trainspotter' - ( Here)
Geoff's Major Model boat Sale - (Here)
Matt's Model Barge page update - (Here)
Wes Whitlinger page updated - (Here)
Started new diary for 2005 - Add yours now.... (Here)
New Photo of the Month, on time for a change! - (Here)

 
Friday  December 31  2004
Update of Steve Middlebrook Yorkshireman - (Here)
 

Tuesday December 22  2004
Major repair of the web site ..... I accidentally deleted the master copy of the site off my PC!! So over the last few days I've had to reconstruct the entire thing from backups and reverse engineering, ( and of course the most recent back to CD was corrupt!!! £$#*&%£!@#).

Anyway, this has also given me a chance to perform a long over due site maintenance, service, oil change and an early spring clean! This will be on going over the next week or so updates will be delayed a bit. Please reports any faults you may find.
Thanks, Martin.

Found Missing Links!
Old link found!
Gerhard LENTSCHIK - Germany - (Here)
Old link found! Sandown Show May 2004 - (Here)
Old link found! Stu Kern - (Here)
Old link found! Andy Shepard
Sankio PT50 Hydrofoil -(Here)

Old link found! Tugs TV series models by Ian Wood -(Here)
 

Friday December 10  2004
Launch of the RHM TENACE by Terry Rowsell - (Here)
Puffer build, part 9 , the winch - (Here)
Stan Reffin - Great master painter - (Here) or (Here)
Can we help Nick with HMS Formidable? - (Here)
P
roposed
 ANNEKE FEENSTRA (Rotterdam Port Authorities Boat ) by Chris König - (Here)
Update to John Richardson's wonderful Freelancer -(Here)
Pictures of Hurricane Lili, thanks Kevin - (Here)
How to rewind model electric motors - ( Article removed as per Glynn Guest instruction  - Here )

 
Friday December 10  2004
Puffer build, part 9 , the winch - (Here)
Pictures of Hurricane Lili, thanks Kevin - (Here)
Launch of the RHM TENACE by Terry Rowsell - (Here)
Stan Reffin - Great master painter - (Here) or (Here)
Can we help Nick with HMS Formidable? - (Here)
Pproposed
 ANNEKE FEENSTRA (Rotterdam Port Authorities Boat ) by Chris König - (Here)
Update to John Richardson's wonderful Freelancer -(Here)

 
Friday December 3  2004
At long last, more model boat technical stuff!
      
How to rewind model electric motors -(Remove, copywrite issue.)
       Twin motors in scale model boats -(Here)
Puffer update, Part 8- (Here)
Start of a Yorkshireman Build by Steve Middlebrook - (Here)
A few more photos from Australia, thanks Steve - (Here)
New Page for Terry Rowsell - Amsterdam tug / Navigation lights / Crest fallen - (Here)
Great Dickie tug conversion by Terry Rowsell - (Here)
Story of the ROBIN by Ken Wright - (Here)
New series - "Stories from the Old Fart" - Part 1 - (Here)
New series - "Stories from the Old Fart" - Part 2 - (Here)
Extra pictures of the Cromer Lifeboat by Kevin -(Here)
Submarine SEAVIEW Video clip added to Pete's Page _(Here)
Another boat from Chris König, Nice! -(Here)
Name that boat? let's help Ken - (Here)
Update to my Model Boat club - Peterborough, PAMBC - (Here)
Update to my / Mayhem projects -(Here)
International Model Boat Show Royal Leamington Spa -(Here) - Comments & details now fully updated.
Wanted Martin Howes & Baylis Steam Paddle engine - (Here)

New Links (bottom of page - (Here)
More rubbish on the Jokes page -(Here)

 
Friday November 27  2004
I
nternational Model Boat Show Royal Leamington Spa -(Here)
Comments & details now fully updated.
Update to my Model Boat club - Peterborough, PAMBC - (Here)
 
Friday November 19  2004
International Model Boat Show Royal Leamington Spa -(Here)
More rubbish on the Jokes page -(Here)
 
Thursday November 11  2004
Puffer build update parts 6 & 7 - (Here)

Also More info on the seaside rock filler used in part 4 (Here)
November Picture of the month - (Here)
Couple more picture of the Dean's Marine open day, thanks Laura -(here)
Sudden Opportunity - a great read - (Here)

 
Thursday November 4  2004
Puffer build update - (Here)

Sorry for the lack of other updates this week, I have them all in my Mayhem inbox and will put them up asap but I want to concentrate on the Puffer build for a few weeks. Cheers, Martin.
 
Thursday October 28  2004
Pictures from the coast, Gt. Yarmouth Model Boat show - (Here)

 
Friday October 22  2004
Midland Model engineering exhibition. WOW! - (Here)
Another visit to my local boat manufacturer - (Here)
Pictures of the Victory and other interesting things seen at Portsmouth from John Bass - (Here)
More industrious work on John's Free Lancer - (Here)
Update to Peter's page - pictures of his Seaview submarine -(Here)
Update to Matt's Bantam canal tug build - (Here)
New page for Wes Whitlinger 44ft Defever - (Here)
New page for Phil Bennet - Boston Trawler - (Here)
New page for Stu Kern, pleasant email ! - (Here)
A few photos from Australia, thanks Steve - (Here)
Slim down the menu bar by combining several Galleries into one -(Here)
Sale & Swaps page updated - (Here)

 
Thursday October 21  2004
Midland Model engineering exhibition. WOW! - (Here)
Another visit to my local boat manufacturer - (Here)
 
Tuesday October 12  2004
Update to the Wonderful HMS. Killingworth - (Here)

Work apace on John Richardson's Free Lancer scratch build- (Here)
A million great pictures from the Black Park Model Boat Show - (Here), many thanks to John Bass.
Also from John, Southern Model Air show... with Boats! - (Here)
....even more from John! - Wattlehurst vintage vehicle show - (Here)
Admirals Model Boat show - Ohio USA - (Here)
Pictures from the Waverly! - (Here)
More pictures of
Graupner's Wyeforce/Southampton. (UK prices vary!!!)   -(Here)
New page for Dennis Kenna, he has his own Harbour! - (Here)
New page for Christian Konig - (Here)
More rubbish on the Jokes page -(Here)
For Sale updates - (Here)

 
Friday October 1  2004
Photos of Sir Galahad, by Roy Palmer - (Here)

A few photos from
Ellesmere Port, thanks David Wooley - (Here) 
A few photos from Dean's Marine, thanks Brian Philips - (Here) 

Photo of the month - (Here) ...... and for October! - (Here)
 
Wednesday Sept 22  2004
Update to Puffer build - (Here)
HMS Killingworth sea trials - (Here)
Update to John Richardson's great build, Free Lancer - (Here)
Colin Stephens Aziz. 'Best lit model of the year!' - (Here)
New boat from Graham Voss - (Here)
Picture of  the U534 at Liverpool - from Paul Holman - (Here)

Want to go to Spain to race a boat? - (Here)
Diary Update - (Here)
Links Updates - (Here)
Jokes page updated - (Here)
New Photo of the month - (Here)
 

Friday Sept 17  2004
 This due to a heroic seven hour struggle with a WINDOWS 2000 "Upgrade". My PC was was frustratingly unstable and crashed regularly just when I didn't want it to, so 'pragmatism being the better part of total system loss', I decided "today's the day for an upgrade."   Depending on your point of view, the upgrade won, ...... or lost!  Upgrading your operating system is a simple job. All you do is, "put the CD in the drive and press any key to continue."  Well after pressing what I now assume to be "the only wrong key on the keyboard", countless reboots, megabytes of download and patches,  the PC couldn't be stabilised, the programs reloaded and most worrying of all, load and activate my Anti-virus software!

 Fortunately 'I is a computa hengineer' and deal with busted PC all day so I backed up my  entire hard drive to another a spare (from stores!) and I've now resorted to installing the backup and successfully running from that - no data lost, Phew!  Next week I'm going to try installing Windows XP ( with SP2 on the STRONG recommendation of Rigger24!!! ),  so I apologise now for this website probably disappearing completely from the the universe! 

It's now 12:30 on a Friday night, I'm fed up, frustrated, annoyed, hungry  and tired so I'm going home to scrape the charcoal of me dinner!
 

Thursday Sept 9  2004
100,000 visitors to Mayhem!?!?!? - Wow!
Update to 'For Sale!' page
New page for Will Lockwood - US Army Bell SK5 Hovercraft - (Here)
A Model World website now online! - www.amodelworld.co.uk
New link - Ekranoplans as seen in the mags & on TV! - (Here)
Added KORT photos to Jan's ASD Tug page - (Here)
Disclaimer added to - thanks Malcolm - (Here)

(Spelling mistooks corrected on Diary and news pages - thanks Roy)

 
Wednesday Sept 1  2004
Pictures from the Submarine / naval day Norwich, thank to Paul Holman - (Here)
Becker rudder upgrade idea for your 'Dickie' tug - (Here)
New page for Steve Middlebrook - (Here)
Graupner's Wyeforce ARTF! -(Here)
Turbine Hydroplane! -(Here)
New tug in the Tug list! ASD semi kit - (Here)

 
Friday Aug 27   2004
Update to Puffer build - (Here)
Diary page updated - Sept  19th - Me Harties!
Update to For Sale page - (Here)
Update for Eddie Mathews, Breeze - (Here)

 
Tuesday Aug 17   2004
LARC - The Wash Monster! - (Here)
Tug list - added Tyne Model's Crosby - (Here)

New page, Chris Behan's U-69 - (Here)
Update to John Richardson's Freelance - (Here)
Update to  Andrew Wright -  Dutch Harbour Tug - (Here)
New page for Eddie Mathews, Breeze - (Here)
Photos of Sir Galahad, by Roy Palmer -(Here)
New link from Chris - Felixstowe TV, www.felixstowetv.co.uk  
                                                                          (Model boats on the features page)
Update to Links page - (Here)
 
Friday Aug 5   2004
Puffer build - Work has finally started - (Here)
Added current price list for 'A Model World' - (Here)
New Photo of the month - ( Here )

 
Friday July 30   2004
Northern Model Boat show, Doncaster - (Here)

Update for Malcolm Frary's Page - (Here)
New page for Eddy Mathews - (Here)
Review of Robbe F14 Navy Radio by John Bass - (Here)
More from Nigel C, Ripmax Carlson - (Here)
Diary Updated - (Here)

 
Friday July 23   2004
Another three new show pictures galleries; Ardingly, Leonardslee & Weymouth.
New page for  Nigel C, Ripmax Carlson - (Here)
New page for  Andrew Wright - a Dutch Harbour Tug - (Here)
Update to Peter Uney Submarine Page - (Here)
New page for Paul Lali, Vac-U-Pusher  - (Here)
Diary Updated - (Here)
NEW MAYHEM BUILD! - Mountfleet Highland Puffer.

 
Friday July 2   2004
Another picture perfect show from John Bass, This time Alford - (Here)

John also went to the Cuckoo Faye, thanks John - (Here)
Sir Guy has also been out and about... Dabbling! - (Here)
More picture for the Vicar water Models page, Thanks Brian - (Here)
Tug boat racing Canadian style, thanks Juilo - (Here)
More great memoirs from the man Lynn - (Here)
Theo's friends Robbe PR15 - (Here)
Pete's Gato. Fantastic deck! - (Here)
New Photo of the month - ( Here )
Diary Updated - (Here)

 
Friday June 4   2004
New page for  Richard Knott, Robbe PAULA 3 - (Here)

New page for  Richard Stableford's 'Stable Jon' - (Here)
 
Friday May 28   2004
2 new sets of Show pictures! Courtesy of John Bass - (Here)
Update to Peter Uney Submarine Page - (Here)
Finished! Paul Holman's 'TALLYHO' submarine - (Here)
New Photo of the Month May - early! -  (Here)

New links. See bottom of page - (Here)
 
Friday May 21   2004
Update to Bernard's Steam Minesweeper -  (Here)

Update for Lynn Leaich's page, great read ! -  (Here)
L
ots of new link, see bottom of page - (Here)
Update to Peter Uney (Mr. Submarine) Page - (Here)

My build on the Krick AVANTI - (Here)
New Photo of the Month May - late again -  (Here)
New links. See bottom of page - (Here)

 
Wednesday March 28   2004
Model EX 2004 show pictures. Thanks John. - (Here)
New page for Bernard Scott. Steam Minesweeper-  (Here)
New page for Scott Rutland. Jaws too! -  (Here)
New page for Lynn Leaich, great read-  (Here)
New page for Darren. -  (Here)
Riggers "my mates boat" - (Here)
Photo of the month April, bit late!!! -  (Here)
Come join the Gorleston club - (Here)
Matt's progress, canal tug - (Here)
New pictures on Vicar water club - see links page.
Great Yarmouth International Marine Model Exhibition - 23, 24 October - (Details)
L
ots of new link, see bottom of page - (Here)

 
Friday 26  March   2004
Model Activ 04 Model show - pictures -(Here)

New model boat retailer, Modelworld - (Here)
Another conversion of the Dickie tug. Thanks Julio - (Here)
New boat from Roland - (Here)
Ah ha, a Sailboat! Paul penny sailboat! - (Here)

New links. See bottom of page - (Here)
Diary dates updated - (Here)

 
Thursday 18  March   2004
New section for
Julio Valenzuela - (Here)
More canal boat building from Matt - (Here)
Promised build of Loyal Moderator has been cancelled for various technical reasons - so we're are open to offers.

 
Thursday 11 March   2004
Added TID to Tuglist - (Here)
Location correction to Northants MODELEX 2004 - (Here)

More a few corrections to the last lot of corrections....!
 

Friday 5  March   2004
Updated the Tugs List page, River Queen & Plucky! - (Here)
Update to John Richardson's page - (Here)
New Page for Jan Spoelstra BIG Power boat! - (Here)
New Page for Ian Green - (Here)
New ..... Boat ..... from Brian - (Here)
New Page for Stan Reffin, DUKW - (Here)
New club Photos Vicar Water Models - (Here)
Commander - new boat for John Picton - (Here)
New photo of the month - (Here)
New links. See bottom of page - (Here)
... a Little bit done to my  Puffer project - (Here)
 

Friday 13 February  2004
Updated Tug list - added Westbourne. Thanks Texas Tug - (Here)
 
Friday 13 February  2004
New page for Ben, nice cabin cruiser - (Here)
Boston Club Diary dates - (Here)
Northants MODELEX 2004 - (Here)
New Links and 'Web site of the moment' - (Here)
New photo of the month - (Here)
For all you computer people out there... a few words of advice - (Here)
   (Nothing to do with model boats!)
 
Friday  6 February  2004
Starting today the Definitive Tug Boat Kit list - add your favourite!
London Model engineering show Wembley - (Here)
Many updates to Diary page, Thanks Guy. - (Here)
New pictures added to Ron Wem's page - (Here)
Update to John Richardson's page - (Here)
New Items in the For Sale section - (Here)
New Links - (Here)
Reinstated 'River Thames' link to menu - must have fell off in an update! - (Here)
 
Friday  23 January 2004
Added my build report of the Graupner ARROW offshore racer - (Here)
Even more updates from 'Mr Canal Boat' Matt Webster - (Here)
New Diary date - 19, 20 June - ANGLIA MARINE MODEL CLUB  24Hr endurance
 
Wednesday 21 January 2004
New Links - (Here)
More canal boat building from Matt - (Here)
New Page for Peter Uney - (Here)
New pictures of Paul Holman's Revell Corvette - (Here)
Add new picture of Doc's Bankert - (Here)
 
Friday 16 January 2004
Sorry about the lack of anything new on Mayhem this week, I'm still alive but tied up with moving my garden shed - 5 feet - but it's much harder to do than I want it to be! 'The  Fish' & Bradders won't let me do any more model boat stuff till it's moved... (hopefully this Sunday)! Normal service will be resumed as soon as possible!
Anyone finished a diving Revell U47 submarine yet?!???
Send in your recommended diary dates......
 
Tuesday 6 January 2004
Start 2004 events diary - (Here)
 
Friday 2 January 2004
Thank you for all the many greetings over the last week or so, much appreciated.    Here's hoping for an even better 2004!  - Send your projects!   
Update for Brian's awesome 1840 Brig - (Here)
Tony King's Dickie conversion - (Here)


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