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A Guided Tour Inside The Iconic HMS Alliance
 
https://youtu.be/WdCpQFLF6qA?si=0kRPTWOiYGboNiyH
 

Vintage RC Tugboat Restoration

https://youtu.be/uTe3j2n2E04?si=_OGBkN2L_NynKlf4
 

 Standards of NHS care can vary considerably. Sometimes it is brilliant, sometimes it is anything but....
 
 

                 

   But all the very best for 2026 Colin !   

On this side of the pond we can also do small torpedo boats!  Here are a couple of Terriers (an EeZeBilt balsa kit from the late 1950s vaguely resembling a Vosper MTB).  One is straight running, the other has been R/C'd with a closed loop thread link to the rudder.  Dusty because I've just got them out of storage. At 10.75" they are about 1:80 scale - 1/72 figures fit them quite well.


Going up a bit in scale we have an Elco in the EeZeBilt 50+ range at 1:48 scale - (O gauge) 20" long. Static and running pictures below. Download free plans for all of these from http://eezebilt.tk

Well.  The woodwork is of course next level. But love those cleats..!  Setting the bar very high Mark, I think I need to reassess how I go about making the cleats for the Riva.


Stunning work, you sponsored by Proxxon yet..?
David.

Thank you    I’ll give it a go

Well, having watched this build with total admiration and some jealousy at the outstanding skills and knowledge displayed, I was rather pleased with myself at spotting two glaring errors..........that mast and bowssprit are way too short!!!!! .


Incredible Mark..

Thanks Steve 

Well, having watched this build with total admiration and some jealousy at the outstanding skills and knowledge displayed, I was rather pleased with myself at spotting two glaring errors..........that mast and bowssprit are way too short!!!!! .


Incredible Mark..

Thanks Footski and you are quite right     I've never ever fancied rigging a ship I think it's a skill in its own right.  Hence the little stubbies 

Derek,
I'm so glad to have your interesting comment and to have known your special interest in not only artificial model boating, but also natural plant/tree.!!   But it seems natural as you are living in enviably vast country surrounded by enviably great nature.!   Vastness itself is tremendously splendid anyhow in practical life by which you could do anything you wish under the definite rules.

Kiyo

Hello Gingyer,
That hull looks very good to me. You make me doubt about whther to continue withthe 1:96 or that I should also go a bit bigger (I used to build model trains in 1:43.5, so 1:48 sounds good, but will become a bit to big for my wife's preference. The 1:72 might be a good alternative.I am nearing completion of the artwork to have the frames cut by a laser cutting company, but can easily resize that (it is just a CAD drawing) and the laser cutting company have doubled the size of what they can cut to a full 8'x4'  size instead of the 4' by 2'  size. The frames as drawn are all full frames, only with some cut-outs for the propellorshafts and two cut outs per side for stringers. They are supposed to be glued in the glass fiber hull from Deans Marine and then have a deck glued on.

I have some doubts about the curvature of the deck. In every picture I have (example of an Admiral's inspection of HMS Alert included), I think I can just see a normal curved deck, but my book by David Brown (Selected Papers on British Warship Design in World War II) states that the curvature was in fact three flat survaces connecting to each other under a slight angle. The middle surface horizontal, and the others as slight ramps at a standard angle towards the sides of the hull.
Due to the pictures I have seen showing the deck, I tend to go for normal round curvature.

Well, having watched this build with total admiration and some jealousy at the outstanding skills and knowledge displayed, I was rather pleased with myself at spotting two glaring errors..........that mast and bowssprit are way too short!!!!! .


Incredible Mark..