Billing Boats 1/12 Scale African Queen 588 Model Kit

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Billing Boats 1/12 Scale African Queen 588 Model Kit (HPS/B588)
£175.99
Hobbies Boat Modelling Tool Set (HOB24)
£17.99
Radio Control Package 6v (RCPACK6V)
£125.00
Model Makers Glue Pack (MMGP)
£12.95
African Queen Motor & Coupling Set (MPB588)
£15.99
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Billing Boats African Queen 588 Model Boat Kit

Kit Contents:

Plan with detailed building instructions, ABS plastic hull, deck made from wood & plastic, stern tube with shaft and propeller. All fittings included.

Please note this model comes with a dummy steam engine and will need electric motors etc if you wish to make it radio controlled.

  • Lenght: 74cm
  • Width: 21cm
  • Height: 21cm
  • Scale: 1/12th

Despite its modest size and appearance, the African Queen is one of the vessels, which has become most vividly engraved on the minds of many people throughout the world.

The African Queen achieved its frame as one of the main characters in a film of the same name. The movie also featured Katharine Hepburn and Humphrey Bogart, who in the filmed version of C.S. Forrester's work play a British missionary and an alcoholic engineer living in Tanzania during World War 1. While sailing on one of the many jungle rivers, the couple become involved in a number of emotional incidents ending, of course, in romance. As the movie closes, the couple - totally exhausted and in a perilous storm - are driven into Lake Victoria, where the African Queen hits the German Warship 'Königin Luise', causing it to explode and sink. The ship used for the on location shooting in Uganda was built in about 1910. After a stormy life, the boat was brought to Florida, where its present owner, Mr. Jim Hendrich, uses the renovated ship as a pleasure craft.


OPTIONAL EXTRAS:


Model Makers Glue Pack contains:

  • Deluxe Materials Speed Bond 112g
  • Deluxe Materials Roket Max Thick Cyano (Super glue)

Hobbies Planking Tool Set Contains:

  • Plank Bending Tool with Blade
  • 2 x 50mm Nylon Grip Clamps
  • 2 x 75mm Nylon Grip Clamps
  • Pen Grip Pin Pusher
  • 7.5mm Brass Pins for Pin Pusher (Pack of 100)

Here at Hobbies we aim to dispatch all in stock items on the same working day, if ordered by 2:00pm. UK mainland orders will be delivered by either Royal Mail or DHL.

DHL normally advise an estimated delivery slot via SMS or Email notification. Please see below for shipping charges.

UK Shipping Charge Rate

Plans, Fretsaw Blades, Flags, Decals and Vinyl Lettering

£2.45

Orders Up To £100

£4.50

Orders Over £100 & Hobbies Catalogues (UK Only)

Free Delivery

Royal Mail TRACKED

£6.95

Maximum Postage (Wood Packs, Panels and Flammable Goods)

£6.95

Express Next Working Day & Nominated Delivery (Placed Before 2pm)

£8.95

Saturday Courier 

£12.95


Please note: Orders to surcharge areas may incur an additional cost if a parcel is oversized, overweight or contains flammable goods. We will contact you before posting. Please see Postage for more information regarding surcharge areas.

We also deliver all over the world. For information regarding overseas orders please see Postage for further details.

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