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Admiralty Brushes by Caldercraft brings you a range of serious artists brushes specifically developed for the model maker. Find out for yourself how a great brush has the potential to raise your skills to a higher level for all those finishing touches!
* Admiralty Brushes have been designed for use with waterbased (acrylic) paints only.
* Finest golden synthetic fibres with incredible ‘spring’, colour holding and painting capability.
* Fibres retained in precision silver ferrules.
* Ultimate comfort and brush control is achieved with our unique handles using a short triangular section with deeply rounded corners.
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Conway Maritime Press: The Frigate Surprise by Brian Lavery & Geoff Hunt.:
There is no more famous a vessel in naval fiction than HMS Surprise, the principal ship in Patrick O’Brian’s much-celebrated Aubrey-Maturin series of sea stories. Yet, this 28-gun frigate also had a most eventful true historical career serving in both the French and then Royal navies and which included capture by the Inconstant in 1796 the much celebrated cutting-out action on the mutinous crew of HMS Hermione. Surprise was decomissioned in 1802 and delivered into the fictional captaincy of Jack Aubrey. This sumptuous new volume, written by acclaimed naval historian Brian Lavery, not only reveals the complete career history and commentary of HMS Surprise in both its guises, but also presents an ............
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 | Raboesch Kort Type Brass Propellers
These 4 blade propellers with a larger blade surface have great propulsion capacity when enclosed within a Kort shroud. Suitable for merchant vessels such as large tugs and fishing vessels fitted with kort systems. Available in left or right hand pitch, and with M4 threaded bosses.
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Deans Marine: H.M.S Inflexible
H.M.S. Inflexible was launched at the Royal Dockyard Portsmouth in 1876 and was armed with 4 x 16” MLR guns in two turrets set en-echelon. Plus 2 x t/tubes and 2 x torpedo carriages, a varied assortment of guns from 4.7” to 20pdrs and many lighter weapons, with 8407 IHP she could make 14.75 knots.
Basic Specification
Scale 1/96 Length 1012mm Beam 290mm Sailing weight 12.2Kgs
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 | Victory Models Plans
We are now stocking plans from this manufactuer. These are beautifully drawn and come complete with the English instructions that are included with their kits.
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Raboesch 'D' type Brass Propellers
These 3 blade propellers with a larger blade surface have great propulsion capacity at low revs. Suitable for Motor yachts, Motor sailors , Steam ships, Classic fishingboats, WW2 Coastal Forcels vessels, and WW2 frigates and Destroyers. Max RPM 11000
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 | Evelyn Rose East coast side trawler 1:20 scale 840mm
A typical English cod fishing trawler from the 1950's to the 1970's sailing along the east coast of England from Ipswich to North Sunderland and Northumberland.
The boats where equipped with a 150 HK Diesel Engine. The boats where hauled up on shore via a line fastened to the bow. The crew on these vessels where between 3-5 men.
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Graupner 5000 Series Twin Cylinder Steam Plant
Suitable for model boats up to about 2000 mm in length. The unit contains the 2-cylinder slide valve steam engine for forward and reverse running, a hard-soldered, timber-clad brass boiler with burner, water level indicator and pressure gauge, gas tank, condensor tank and associated tubing.
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 | Deans Marine : ASR 128
Scale 1/24 Length 812mm Beam 215mm
The Model, The hull of this model is moulded in lightweight glass fibre, with a moulded in rubbing strip that forms a seating for the 1.5mm plastic deck. The superstructure cabin is a vac forming in hi Impact styrene sheet. All of the deck structure parts are in pre-printed 1mm colour plastic. To complement this most attractive model a full set of fittings in cast metal and resin are included along with propeller shafts, tubes and rudders. To assist in the construction a full size colour plan with digitally embedded pictures of the prototype model is provided along with a complete set of comprehensive instructions, plus a set of decals to give a colourful finished model.
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Model Shipwright Magazine: Issue 144
This quarterly journal is widely regarded as the worlds leading ship modelling publication. Its mixture of articles. reviews and comment from modelmakers all over the world, provide the best and most detailed information available anywhere, with authentic plans, clear diagrams and photographs.
This contains the following articles
The Lookout
The Tasmania Barque Nautilus, 1872—1891 (Part 1) by John Laing
USS Gearing by John R Haynes
An 18th-Century Naval Brig by Michael Leek
The Lumberyard for Model Shipwrights by David Stevens The Scottish Zulu Muirneag SY486, 1903—1947 (Part 2) by Gordon Williams
Braemar Castle (1898) by R A Wilson
Modeller’s Draught: Orkney Pilot Boat Scapa Pilot J Pottinger
HMS Roebuck by Bernard Baldwin
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 | Scratch Building Marine Models by Richard Webb:
In this book, Richard Webb covers all aspects of scratch building model boats, from why scratch build, research, drawing hull lines, using all different methods of hull construction through to the completed model.
With comprehensive chapters on using wood, metal, styrene and grp, Richard takes you through from start to finish of the boat you choose to build.
There are chapters on how to build decks and superstructures, soldering and silver soldering. The book also covers making sails, rigging and painting.
Making fittings like ship’s wheels, lifebelts, winches and many more small fittings are also covered.
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Back in Print: The Anatomy of Nelson's Ships
The Anatomy of Nelson's Ships One of the first and most important works covering the construction of a 1:48 scale model of H.M.S Victory (now in the Science Museum in London. Although the author started to write this book before the last war, his techniques and methods are still as valid today, and like Harold Underhill's, Plank on Frame Models series, should be on any modellers bookshelf. Packed with lots of superb drawings and some photographs, this book reads as an instruction manual for modeller's building the Victory.
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 | Back in Print and Revised: The Tug Boat Book
Building large Scale Model TugsThinking of building a large tug model? These impressive models, always much admired, are major projects and need careful consideration. This compendium of features brings together a wide variety of choices; ancient to modern, scratch built to kit, electric or steam power, minimal functions to the most complex. Authoritatively written by Marine Modelling International magazines’ regular contributors and edited to give a broad choice of contrasting subjects, this book will help guide you through your tug building with a myriad of useful building tips and ideas.....Order Now |
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Two new controllers from Mtroniks.
Plug & Play: The Plug n Play set up means ....... NO setup! The speed control learns as you use it and calibrates itself automatically to your transmitter! There are no adjustable features on the Plug n Play speed control so nothing can get in your way of trouble free sailing straight from the packet! Sutable for motors with a maximum current draw of 15amps.
25amp MIRROR The Viper Marine MIRROR is a Brushed Speed Control designed specifically for use in RC model boats where identical operation in both directions is required, for example a bow thruster!
The Marine MIRROR, 'Mirrors' the operation exactly about the neutral point of your transmitter. It also features the new Plug n Play set up which in effect means .... no set up!!! The Speed control learns as you use it and calibrates itself to your transmitter without you having to do anything!
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 | Deans Marine: 63ft Motor Anti-Submarine Boat No33
These high speed craft were designed and constructed in 1941 by British Power Boat Co for the Royal Navy as coastal Anti Submarine craft. Power by 3500 b.h.p Power Napier sea lion engines giving a top speed of 30 knots. ......Click here for further information |
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Flower Class Corvettes from Seaforth Publishing
Flower Class Corvettes by Les Brown, John Lambert: The 'ShipCraft' series provides in-depth information about building and modifying model kits of famous warship types. Lavishly illustrated, each book takes the modeller through a brief history of the subject class, highlighting differences between sister-ships and changes in their appearance over their careers. This includes paint schemes and camouflage, featuring colour profiles and highly-detailed line drawings and scale plans. The modelling section reviews the strengths and weaknesses of available kits, lists commercial accessory sets for super-detailing of the ships, and provides hints on modifying and improving the basic kit. This is followed by an extensive photographic gallery of selected high-quality models in a variety of scales, and the book concludes with a section on research references - books, monographs, large-scale plans and relevant websites. Click for further information.... |  |
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 | Krick Maxi Twin
Suitable for twin screw model boats up to about 120 cm in length or 25kg displacement, and swinging props diameters up to about 75mm. This unit is ideally suited to kits like the Caldercraft Imara and Resolve.
Each set contains TWO - 2-cylinder steam engines with forward and reverse running, a hard-soldered, timber-clad brass vertical boiler with burner, water level indicator, two condenser tanks, a pressure gauge, and associated tubing. The units are ready assembled and have been test run by the factory.
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Seaforth Publishing
Seaforth Publishing is a new maritime book publisher run by the long-established editorial team of Robert Gardiner and Julian Mannering, who share a passion for ships and the sea and have between them more than fifty years of commissioning experience first building the Conway Maritime Press list in the 1980s and '90s and later setting up Chatham Publishing.
The aim of the list is to produce the very best maritime books, whether they be narrative histories, definitive reference works, ship monographs or modeling books; and as well as reflecting the very latest research they are also designed and printed to the highest standards. Some have made significant contributions to the field, but we hope that all of them will make worthwhile additions to any collector's bookshelf.
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 | Deans Marine. MFV Tradition
This model is based on a type of Seine Net Trawler traditionally used particularly around the North coast of Scotland. This trawler is not based on a specific ship, but a type of ship.
Tradition was one of the last and largest of the Siene Net Trawlers built of timber in the traditional method by traditional craftsmen, with a superstructure made of steel or aluminium and painted to give an effect of timer, often called 'scrumbling'
This type of vessel served their owners well and many are still in service today, thirty or forty years after first being launched. With the reduction of the fishing fleets in the late 90’s due to EEC Regulations the majority of these craft were scrapped, not because they were inefficient but due to their need for skilled craftsmen for repairs and maintenance. With the loss of these skills this type of vessel became more and more expensive to maintain.
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