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View all@ColRay It could be worth putting a reasonably good sized “online” order of wood together with SLEC and then checking the postage cost wh…
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Move the Rudder Forwards. When I restored Rapier 1, I was also building my second Remora (the first was lost in a move up from Devon in t…
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Alessandr "Why Col? What do you mean?" Normally with my old style model making the concept I have thought up, most of the time turns out …
@AlessandroSPQR Hi Alessandro, Outstanding work. You have put a lot of time and effort into this article, not many people go to the lengt…
Dave Oh how I wish I had a local club Col Down South in WA Little Grove I do have a sailing club for the full size boats just around the …
@AlessandroSPQR Hi, the others are called strakes. On full-sized boats where increasing power of the engines is expensive and uses more f…
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View allOne Small Step... and the start of a new project. After all the help with information I received regarding building a Puffer. it's now on the drawing board. …
I will, most likely, have to rename this Blog, at some point. In the mean time...please do not expect much for a while as she is in her very early stages. Fi…
I'm not sure how this will work. Three D printing forms used will fiberglass. My thinking is using the same way of construction that I used with My Thames Ba…
Hi Please remember that this is only about my Lady “T”. I don’t seem to remember if I have started this story before, so here goes. This story is just my ram…
I’m in the middle of building a 1:48 Directors‑class paddle tug — Forceful. I’m using the fibreglass hull and working from plan No. 1292, plus the two Marine…
Classic Model Power Boats is a title that I have used for many years to describe the group of model boats that most interest me and that I remember seeing (a…
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This is another Rapier that I am restoring after buying it unseen. …
Original LesRo Sprite
More Like a Swamp Buggy? I bought this model in fairly rough condi…
Midwest #957 Seguin
A FB Marketplace find. Needs ESC and Receiver upgrades, but otherwis…
Precedent Perkasa
Just got a very old fiberglass model of this kit, it's unstarted, if …
Graupner Pegasus III
I was given the kit in the 1980's as a present, nightmare build but I…
Steam Tug - Seguin
I need to take a better pic of this old boat - I built it in 1991, mi…
1924 British Coasting Freighter - Ben Ain
I purchased this completed Mountfleet kit, performed minor modificati…
US Army 85' ST Tug
I bought this '90s boat as a basket case and completely re-built it. …