The Baby Bootlegger, built by
Jack Kipfer, Waterloo, Ontario, at the Kitchener Regatta. Scratch-built Gold Cup racer
won Best Pleasure Boat category at the Toledo Hobby Show, 1998
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H.M.S. Warspite, 1/128 scale
scratch-built on Fleetscale hull,
built by Alex Derry |
H.M.S. Warspite, again. Warspite
holds the record for naval gunnery
against a moving target, of 26,500 yards
(just over 15 miles), hitting the Italian
battleship Giulio Cesare during the Battle of Calabria, 9 July 1940. |
Waiting for cargo.
Foss Cup
Tugboat Regatta,
Bellevue, Washington
1998 |
Norm Perkins' scratch-built
Fairmile patrol boat.
Metro Marine Modellers
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The “Max”, John Brook's
Alligator Steam Warping
Tug, circa 1905. Scratch-
built. “Max” has working
anchor winch with 2-speed
transmission, brake and
free drop. Has to our
knowledge deepest
anchorage by a model (30 feet)
and parked for 1/2 hour.
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Waiting for the show.
Metro Marine Modellers
display at the
Toronto Hobby Show,
November 1998
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Bob Faulkner's tug
“Forceful” was
one of 2 (Fearless) twin-engine
diesel tugs built for the Royal Navy
during the 1950's to move aircraft
carriers around. Independent
paddles made them very
manueverable. Picton Ontario.
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Jack Kipfer's “Miss
Columbia”
and “Alzed”. Metro Marine
Modellers winners at the
Toledo Model Show, 1997, 1996
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Art Cocroft, Metro Marine
Modellers “John Moore”
from Dumas' “Mr. Darby”
kit with working lights,
tow winch. |
“Calypso”,
by Ken Baker, Kitchener. A Billings kit, with working copter rotor, lights
and crane. |
“Under Deception Pass
Bridge”, Foss Cup, 1998
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Charlie Larking's
Metro
Marine Modellers
“Mt. Washington”, from
a Dumas kit. |
Canadian west coast
logging tug “Harley” pulling 50 lb. log boom escorted by tug
“Nora Belle”, a modified “Amsterdam” kit.
“Harley” is 16" long and weighs 8 lbs.
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“Ardmore”, built by
Jack Kipfer, is a model of
the 1916 boat by Minett in Gravenhurst, Ontario. Model is 1/8 scale
and is 52" long. Won Best Pleasure Boat at the 2001 Toledo Model
Show. |
“Ardmore”
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“Mineta”, built by
Jack Kipfer, is a model of
the 1917 boat by Minett in Gravenhurst, Ontario. Model is 1/9 scale.
Won Best Pleasure Boat at the 2000 Toledo Model Show, as well as Best
Finish Overall (including aircraft models). |
“Mineta”
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“Mineta” |
“Mineta”
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“R2D2” by Dave
Lockwood of Winnipeg. |
“R2D2” by Martin
Hunger, Toronto
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“Riva Aquarama”,
built by Jack Kipfer, is a model of a late 1950's pleasure boat. Model
is 1/8 scale. Won Best Pleasure Boat at the 1999 Toledo Model Show, as
well as Second Place, Best Finish Overall (including aircraft models). |
“Riva Aquarama”
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1/8 scale KING TIGER
Tank built by Mike Deiter of R/C Armory using MCD
Speed Controls. Fully operable turret in train and elevation. Tank
weighs approx. 60 lbs.
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1/8 scale KING TIGER
Tank built by Mike Deiter of R/C Armory using MCD
Speed Controls.
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Jack Kipfer's new boat,
the "KEMAH II" with which he won in the Pleasure Boat
category at the Toledo Weak Signals R/C Show this year for the 10th
year in a row. He also won the BEST IN SHOW AWARD against all models
including aircraft of which there were at least 10 times as many
models as there were boats. He scratch-built everything on the model
except the piano hinges on the engine and mother-in-law seat hatches
and the step plates which he had made as pins. However, he did the
original artwork for them.
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"KEMAH II"
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"KEMAH II"
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"KEMAH II"
DETAILS! DETAILS!
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