How do you fancy a (nearly) OO scale working SRN4 hovercraft? There's a 1:70 scale radio controlled model kit of the huge 200+ seater Hovercraft car ferries that used to run from Dover to Boulogne available for about £150. Has the potential for an exhibition layout with a difference - what if BR had built a Hoverport with a railway station, with through inter-regional trains and Southern units connecting with the frequent hovercraft departures? You'd need a fair size board (the hovercraft model is over two and a half feet long!) but it would be operationally quite an eye opener!
One for next year's Warley show perhaps?
For those who have a lot of room...
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This is the American site which sells them over there but has some video footage of the model
https://www.quicktechhobby.com/Hovercra ... RCRAFT.htm
In the UK they seem to be sold via an e-Bay on line store as I've not found any other UK site, which you should be able to find using e-Bay's search facility. That said I'm sure they must be sold elsewhere, probably in the ads of magazines for radio controlled models.
https://www.quicktechhobby.com/Hovercra ... RCRAFT.htm
In the UK they seem to be sold via an e-Bay on line store as I've not found any other UK site, which you should be able to find using e-Bay's search facility. That said I'm sure they must be sold elsewhere, probably in the ads of magazines for radio controlled models.
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