FEATURES:
LANDING CRAFT MECHANISED - Keith Bragg works some 'Plastic Magic' on the Italeri kit
USS HANFORD - Full-Size Free Plans for a Stand-Off Scale model based on the Fletcher class destroyers - modified to carry aircraft - by Glynn Guest. Approx scale 1/144 (FULL SIZE PLAN)
8O YEARS OF SHIP MODELLING 1926-2006! - Paul Frankland reflects on a lifetime of model boat making - from childhood in England to retirement in Canada
PS SHIPS / SIRMAR - Dave Wooley makes a Factory Visit to one of our best known warship scale manufacturers
A HAMPSHIRE FARMER'S HIDDEN COLLECTION - Angela Walker unearths an exceptional collection of model ships and boats
THREE CHEERS AND TWENTY BOUGIES - (Candles or Spark Plugs) for the Motorboat Museum! All is explained by Kevin Desmond
'TURBOCAD' COMPETITION - Your chance to win software of the world famous CAD (Computer Aided Design) software.

REGULARS:
ALL POINTS & MAILBOAT - What's happening around the lakes and shows; club news, Tenby, plus your letters and private classifieds
RANGE FINDER - Dave Wooley's world wide review of Warships and Warship Modelling - building HMS Mersey - part one, book review - Warship Pictorial on Arieigh Burke destroyers, plus Mystery Picture and What Type of Ship?
THE WARTIME LIBRARY - Some really old model books from reader Bill Jones are discussed by Dave Wiggins in this month's Collectors' Corner
GALLERY - Jon Godsell's subject this month is the LPD Rotterdam Class Landing Platform Dock Mr Ms Rotterdam
BRIAN KING'S COLUMN - A regular treatise for the scratch builder - Simulation
FOCUS ON SCALE - A regular look at r/c scale - by Paul Freshney and Dave Brumstead - HMY Britannia, paints and sundries, Weymouth International Maritime Modelling Festival and Southern Model Air Show
OMRA NEWS - John Kerr and Stewart Rae cover the 'D' Class Championship Results, OMRA Member of the Year, Z Class at Bristol, plus more of the A-Z of powerboat bits
TEST BENCH - Books, Kyosho Mini-2 Boats, Dean's Royal Oak, card kits and grp fittings

On The Cover - More 'Plastic Magic' as Kerth Bragg modifies the Italeri Landing Craft Mechanised kit to radio control. And what about 80 years of ship modelling! Now that is some achievement. Our Inset shows ex-pat Paul Frankland who left UK shores for Canada in 1947 - and who started his model boat making at the age of eight in 19261 His final model of tug HIbernia is a fitting tribute to a lifetime's work.