Bob Walker
South
Surrey, British Columbia, Canada
“In 1839, Samuel Cunard of Halifax, Nova
Scotia, commissioned Robert Duncan, shipbuilder on the Clyde River at Greenock,
Scotland, to build four vessels for his new shipping line. These ships retained
the design of the clippers of their day but would be steam-powered paddlewheelers.
The first, Brittania, was launched in
1840,” writes Bob, who converted Revell’s 36"-long 1/70 scale Thermopylae for RC operation, adding ballast to bring it to
waterline, squaring off the stern, and decking it with wood coffee stirrers. “I
still have to add sails,” he says.