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Compass 360 - Latest hobby & industry news
Shark! Prize Draw - Your chance to win a Carson Ready-to-Run 2.4Ghz Race Shark courtesy of Hobbies
SL Scrapwood: the resurrection launch - What do you do when disaster strikes? Rookie John Mileson shares his own very humorous story
MB Q&A - We chat with warship wizard Dave Wooley about his attention commanding builds and his admirable 'never give never give up' story
D.I.Y. flags made a breeze - Geoff Fairfax shares a simple but highly effective method of creating convincing looking scaled down flags
FREE PLAN BUILD GUIDE - Alan Charlish explains how to construct the Dolphin, a charmingly simple, easy and economical to build working boat from this month's free plan
HMS Diamond - Ashley Needham tells the fascinating tale of how, after responding to an online SOS, he went about sympathetically restoring this 60 year old gem
Test your pulling power - Phil Scales provides a layman's guide to Bollard Pull and explains how you can get the measure of it in your own model boats
Boiler Room - Richard Simpson tests out a new Automatic Boiler Control device
The Swordfish - While doing a spot of virtual fishing for ideas, Ashley Needham recently had his imagination fuelled by a blast from the past.
Memory Lane: An Engine from 'Mr 308' - Dave Wiggins whisks us back to a diesel-fuelled world
Flotsam & Jetsam: Back to the bookshelf - Part 1 - John Parker dusts off some of the older titles in his collection and reflects upon their contents
Dandy Score - Ever considered extending your modelling beyond simply building ships/boats in order to take in the bigger - and at the same time smaller - picture? David Bray shows off how it's done
Your models - More of your brilliant work showcased
Next month...Just a few of the reasons you won't want to miss the August issue of MB!
Equally, as the Racing Shark is described as being suitable for those aged 8+, we think this cool-looking, eye-catching, (how screamingly '70s' is that orange!) model would be a very exciting first hands-on R/C model boat experience for children and teens. I know I probably keep banging on about this, but the future of the hobby totally depends on getting the next generation engaged and involved, so I think it's vital that we all do our bit to encourage this at every given opportunity. We would absolutely love to feature more young model boat enthusiasts/modellers in the magazine, so if you're reading and this applies to you, or indeed to a family member or someone you know, don't be shy -please get in touch.
Of course, for those of us who grew up in far simpler times, with no video games, social media, mobile phones, etc, there was probably far more incentive to get creative and crafty in order to entertain ourselves. Butthat was then, and this is now, so I very much agree with Dave Wooley's comments in this month's MB Q&A about the importance of embracing innovative new technology as a way of increasing the hobby's appeal amongst the young. In doing so, there's a natural inter-generational synergy, as 'Boomers' have a wealth of traditional skills to pass on, while 'Millennials' can usually teach most of us old dogs some valuable new tricks in terms of all things digital!
As always, your thoughts on this subject, or for that matter any of the topics featured on the pages to follow, will be most welcome. Enjoy your read!
Lindsey
