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Regulars:
MESSAGE FROM THE BRIDGE - The editor describes some new ideas for the-New Year
MASTHEAD - Maritime news and major event details
DIARY DATES - Maritime events for the forthcoming year
STEAM SCENE - The start of a new regular feature on steam powered maritime craft
CHANDLERY - Some new items of hardware and books for the modeller
WEE NIP REVISITED (A SAIL FREE SPECIAL) - Chris Jackson revisits the popular Wee Nip yacht
AIRWAVES - Alan Senior looks at the problem of mixing water with electrics!
POWERPLUG - Rick Eyrich suggests how to balance and fine-tune propellers
SCALE SCENE - Ian Williams describes his holiday find!
PLASTIC KIT SCENE - Robin Trott investigates some new plastic maritime kits
LIVEWIRES - Jeff Meade finds some new items to start off the new Fast Electric year
WATERLINES - Kelvin Holmes recalls the early 'Empress' liners of the Canadian Pacific
TIFFY 19 - Tiffy investigates reproducing wooden decks in miniature
MEETING POINT - In-depth reports on major maritime events held over the past few months
COMING NEXT MONTH - Some of the articles planned for the February 2010 edition
Features:
FERRITE RINGS - A simple way of taming some of the misbehaving Radio Frequency Interference problems
ANTARIES (FULL SIZE PLAN) - Jim Pottinger describes this modern North Sea fishing trawler
GERMAN AA SUBMARINE 'FLAK 1' - Chris Koenig describes an experiment that went badly wrong!
BRISTOL CHANNEL PILOT CUTTERS - Tony James explains the history of this once very popular vessel to be seen in the Bristol Channel
WWII SUB-CHASERS - David Jack shares his research and build of his sub-chaser
HANSA KOGGE - Robin Trott reviews this different but attractive medieval sailing ship
Cover - Steam power always conjures up very emotive feelings of nostalgia and when used to propel a model vessel is a guaranteed crowd puller. In the early days of full size and even the early days of model craft steam was the only alternative method of moving a vessel apart from sail. In those days steam engines were limited to model engineers who had the skill and tools to make a steam plant from scratch and many examples of the early steam engines can still be seen working today. Steam power to some people is still a big mystery and they can be frightened off by the apparent complexity of this type of engine with words like oscillating engines, slide valve engines, lubricators, safety valves, boilers, gas burners, coal burners etc., etc. Hopefully through this new series of regular articles the lid can be lifted off some of these mysteries and with some of the ready built steam engines now available you do not necessarily have to be an experienced model engineer to fit a steam power plant into a marine model.
