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Convoy models – Introduction – page under construction: 22\/03\/2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Suffice it to say that I started collecting small scale (1\/1200 & 1\/1250) model ships in 1960 – the earliest purchases were ‘Minic’ (1st [UK] series) and ‘Eagle’\/’Eaglewall’. This early period of collecting reached a ‘high-point’ in the mid-1960s when I started converting – a conversion of the Minic HMS Bulwark to HMS Hermes immediately springs to mind. Time moved on: there were the traumas of looking for a job, and then time at college, and the realisation that I was an ‘outdoor person’. In the mid-1970s I became aware of two manufacturers who became well known in that period: W G (Bill) Gilpin – a wonderful, if slightly eccentric, schoolteacher from Glasgow, who produced as ‘Clydeside’

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Convoy Models – New Models from a variety of manufacturers<\/strong><\/a>

John’s Miniature Ships<\/strong><\/a>

Convoy Models – secondhand & pre-loved models:<\/strong><\/a> (Links for these sections may not work yet):

1) Royal Navy (& Dominion & Commonwealth Navies)<\/a><\/strong>

2) The Navies of France, Germany & the United States of America<\/a><\/strong>

3) The Navies of Italy, Japan & the Netherlands, together with Imperial Russia and the Soviet Union, and other European & South American Countries (& anywhere else)<\/a>
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4) The Merchant fleets of all nations<\/strong>, listed by manufacturer & manufacturer serial numbers.<\/a>


DH\/Wirral\/Len Jordan models – Liners (L) series <\/a>
DH\/Wirral\/Len Jordan models – Freighters (M) series <\/a>
DH\/Wirral\/Len Jordan models – Armed Merchantmen (K) & Tankers (T)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

UK Mini-ship Shows 2026 onwards …
UK Mini-ship Shows – a retrospective list …<\/a>
Lincoln (Welton\/Dunholme) Mini-ship Show 2026<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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