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raj002
Able Seaman
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RAF Crash Tender
This is a Kitshack 46 inch Crash Tender. Nearly finished with a bit more detail yet to finish powered by 2 1400 kv brushless motors running on car speed controllers at 7.2 volt. Goes like stink! Has working rotatable fire monitors which are scratch built
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  • mbrownhillRecruit
    It looks great - I am just starting to build one. Do you have any recommendations on the fire monitors? I am going to use Robbe and make them rotate.

    Do you find the twin motors too much ?
  • raj002Able Seaman
    I made my own from bits of tube and old coins for flanges. The nozzle is just sleeved down with progressively smaller tube till it squirted about right. Pump is a standard grapnel unit. Hopefully this link to a photo blog will work. https://picasaweb.google.com/102817163504371499744/RAFCrashTenderModelBoatBuildKitshack46InchVersion
    The link will give you details of the motors and speed controllers and the props I used. it's quick!
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MAXTON
Midshipman
Badger Customs Launch
Scratch built some years ago, powered by 6volt PB battery.
She was always very slow and hard to manoeuvre. She was made from MM plans. I could never get her to behave in the water. 27Mhz TX/RX. tried changing motor, prop 6 to 12 volts nothing seemed to make much difference, gave up in the end. You can't win them all.
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MAXTON
Midshipman
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MAXTON Stern Trawler
SemI Kit, I.e fibreglass hull and superstructure and wooden rubbing strake all the rest is scratch built. A very good sailer and very stable. Quick to build only a month and powered by 540motor and 35mm prop. Lasted for hours on one charge.
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  • MAXTONMidshipman
    Hi!
    I got it from "Boats and Bits" in Newton le Willows who closed down over 10 years ago.
    Try Steve at Scale Hobbies in Skelmersdale.
    Google--- Scalehobbies Skemersdale.
    Good Luck
    Max.
  • BallastChief Petty Officer 1st Class
    Thanks for the info, I'll give it a go. trouble is I've had the hull since 1982 so it's a bit out of date as Cygnus then started to produce the GM 33 Continental like yours. But I'm not beat yet, even if I have to end up making the wheelhouse from scratch ! 😰
boatbuild4042
Recruit
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unsure
Can anyone please tell me if they know what this model is or should be as it was given to me by an old gentleman who also did not what it was or should be
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  • LemmerhengstAble Seaman
    I think it is Bowman model, 1930's.
    They made them with steam power, clockwork and also rubber power.
Mataroa
Chief Petty Officer 1st Class
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EDNA MAY
HI I got this Aerokits Solent Class life boat at the weekend last .it need a lot of work to be done .can any one tell me anything about this life boat

cliff
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  • Colin TAble Seaman
    Are you still needing information on the Solent class lifeboat?
Dave Kershaw
Master Seaman
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Aerokits PT Boat
Just started work on the Torpedoes for My Aerokits PT Boat, the ones in the kit don't look quite right,
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  • NorthumbrianMidshipman
    HI Dave
    I have bookmarked your web site there is loads of info for the Perkasa
    cheers Bob 👍
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  • John2Chief Petty Officer 1st Class
    I look forward to seeing it on the water 😁
jimgriffiths
Recruit
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Wm. Lyon Mackenzie
100% scratch built model of the Toronto harbor Fireboat. Been in the making for almost five years now. When finished it will be RC and have water pumping capabilities. Toronto Fire Services are celebrating the boat's 50th anniversary this year and appear to be interested in my model. The boat will be powered by two Dumas six volt motors geared three to one.
Liked by DannyZ and circle43nautical and
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  • HughMaster Seaman
    beautiful!👍
  • circle43nauticalChief Petty Officer 2nd Class
    BRAVO ZULU! What a fine vessel!
lhpen
Master Seaman
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Talacre
SS Talacre - Single Hatch Coaster 1:48 Scale Just recently bought second hand and about to renovate to my own standard!
Caldercraft SS Talacre
The SS Talacre is a typical single hatch coaster used in the coal trade of a type that was found by the hundreds around the coast of the U.K. in the golden era of steam. Designed for Point of Ayr Collieries by Crichton, Thompson & Co Ltd., of London she was built by Crabtree &Co., of Great Yarmouth in 1917. Talacre was named after a small village near the colliery. Talacre was finally scraped in 1959 by the Hammond Lane Foundry in Dublin. Realism leaps out of the completed model, as if a turn of a valve will start the anchor windlass or the cargo winch clattering away and the lagged steam pipes to begin steaming and drying out.
Scale: 1:48
Length: 863mm
Beam 152mm
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