A couple of months ago I let a young boy run my torpedo boat under my supervision. In one of the runs he glanced the boat to the side of the dock and one of the guns snapped off and fell into the water. Oh well.
Anyhow, I was looking at the original model guns and they were really a pawn chess piece base with a metal punch for a gun. Not scale.
I decided to make a close enough scale Hotchkiss gun. Not exact, but better looking.
the pics of the gun schematic with the original chess piece gun and my new ones made of wood will be attached later since the current location does not have the needed signal strength.
Isaac
A couple of months ago I let a young boy run my torpedo boat under my supervision. In one of the runs he glanced the boat to the side of the dock and one of the guns snapped off and fell into the water. Oh well.
Anyhow, I was looking at the original model guns and they were really a pawn chess piece base with a metal punch for a gun. Not scale.
I decided to make a close enough scale Hotchkiss gun. Not exact, but better looking.
the pics of the gun schematic with the original chess piece gun and my new ones made of wood will be attached later since the current location does not have the needed signal strength.
I was just invited to go on a local Sarasota Florida TV morning show ( April 29th ) to bring this big old torpedo boat. This in conjunction with the local RC Sailboat club. But as some of you may recall, when I refurbished the boat last year, there were questions as to what is this boat modeled after. It looks like an 1890's USS Cushing TB-1, but this model had three smoke stacks where the actual Cushing really had only two. The three stack TB boat from that era was the USS Porter TB-6, but the bow is different and so is the stern. So it remained ambiguous....I did not mind it.
I could not be ambiguous for the show, so I decided to modify and make it look like the USS Cushing. The main visual difference was the removal of the middle stack.
However, this model has 3 geared motors and three propellors. I decided not to remove the middle one because it is not seen and also it would have required new bigger motors and bigger props as well as new ESCs. So that is the only main deviation for the USS Cushing.
The boat was then patched up and repainted grey.
I sailed it again in its current USS Cushing configuration yesterday and it was great!!!!
Pics attached on the current configuration.
Isaac😎
[{"id":"174472925120","name":"174472925120","caption":"","url":"https:\/\/hobby.land\/media\/174472925120\/l","thumbUrl":"https:\/\/hobby.land\/media\/174472925120\/s","isImage":false,"ext":"file"},{"id":"174472926621","name":"174472926621","caption":"","url":"https:\/\/hobby.land\/media\/174472926621\/l","thumbUrl":"https:\/\/hobby.land\/media\/174472926621\/s","isImage":false,"ext":"file"},{"id":"174472931085","name":"174472931085","caption":"","url":"https:\/\/hobby.land\/media\/174472931085\/l","thumbUrl":"https:\/\/hobby.land\/media\/174472931085\/s","isImage":false,"ext":"file"},{"id":"174472932929","name":"174472932929","caption":"","url":"https:\/\/hobby.land\/media\/174472932929\/l","thumbUrl":"https:\/\/hobby.land\/media\/174472932929\/s","isImage":false,"ext":"file"},{"id":"174472935554","name":"174472935554","caption":"","url":"https:\/\/hobby.land\/media\/174472935554\/l","thumbUrl":"https:\/\/hobby.land\/media\/174472935554\/s","isImage":false,"ext":"file"},{"id":"174472937585","name":"174472937585","caption":"","url":"https:\/\/hobby.land\/media\/174472937585\/l","thumbUrl":"https:\/\/hobby.land\/media\/174472937585\/s","isImage":false,"ext":"file"},{"id":"174472941529","name":"174472941529","caption":"","url":"https:\/\/hobby.land\/media\/174472941529\/l","thumbUrl":"https:\/\/hobby.land\/media\/174472941529\/s","isImage":false,"ext":"file"},{"id":"174472943475","name":"174472943475","caption":"","url":"https:\/\/hobby.land\/media\/174472943475\/l","thumbUrl":"https:\/\/hobby.land\/media\/174472943475\/s","isImage":false,"ext":"file"}]
I was just invited to go on a local Sarasota Florida TV morning show ( April 29th ) to bring this big old torpedo boat. This in conjunction with the local RC Sailboat club. But as some of you may recall, when I refurbished the boat last year, there were questions as to what is this boat modeled after. It looks like an 1890's USS Cushing TB-1, but this model had three smoke stacks where the actual Cushing really had only two. The three stack TB boat from that era was the USS Porter TB-6, but the bow is different and so is the stern. So it remained ambiguous....I did not mind it.
I could not be ambiguous for the show, so I decided to modify and make it look like the USS Cushing. The main visual difference was the removal of the middle stack.
However, this model has 3 geared motors and three propellors. I decided not to remove the middle one because it is not seen and also it would have required new bigger motors and bigger props as well as new ESCs. So that is the only main deviation for the USS Cushing.
The boat was then patched up and repainted grey.
I sailed it again in its current USS Cushing configuration yesterday and it was great!!!!
I had a great photographer take a few pics of the torpedo boat before modifying it to conform to a TB-1 USS Cushing. 😎
Isaac
[{"id":"174726371048","name":"174726371048","caption":"","url":"https:\/\/hobby.land\/media\/174726371048\/l","thumbUrl":"https:\/\/hobby.land\/media\/174726371048\/s","isImage":false,"ext":"file"},{"id":"174726371024","name":"174726371024","caption":"","url":"https:\/\/hobby.land\/media\/174726371024\/l","thumbUrl":"https:\/\/hobby.land\/media\/174726371024\/s","isImage":false,"ext":"file"},{"id":"174726371269","name":"174726371269","caption":"","url":"https:\/\/hobby.land\/media\/174726371269\/l","thumbUrl":"https:\/\/hobby.land\/media\/174726371269\/s","isImage":false,"ext":"file"}]
Isaac