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Atlantic 85 1/12 scale scratch-built
More work on the little boat today #lockdownfun
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North Rock Tug
Just a little Hamilton Bay run of my scratch built R/C North Rock tug replica .The real tug was built in 1956 for the Alexandra Towing Co. Liverpool I took a little liberty in the color found out that the cabin was white & my ability to record with my I Phone & steer model ain't to good but it's a sturdy hull .
Liked by Madwelshman and RNinMunich and
Shannon Lifeboat 13 09
Scratch built 1:12 Shannon Ilfracombe 13 09
This amazing model is SCRATCH built (including the plug for the hull!!!) by John Sluman
Most fittings are machined metal, some incredcible skill in construction.
Boat in this video is running on brushed motors - it is now converted to brushless.
This amazing model is SCRATCH built (including the plug for the hull!!!) by John Sluman
Most fittings are machined metal, some incredcible skill in construction.
Boat in this video is running on brushed motors - it is now converted to brushless.
Liked by Commodore-H and MouldBuilder and
RC Sailing :- "American Lobster Boat"
"Dire Straits 2" is an American Lobster Fishing Boat - scratch built from plans built by Keith Holmes.
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Range Safety Launch
Hi. This is my 2nd scratch built boat since lock down began. The first was the H S L 103 finished 6/7 weeks ago. Still waiting to be tested outside of workshop. This one is built on a fibre glass hull,and has a length of 44 inches and a beam of 16. My power plant is twin out runner motors purple power. 600kv, running through twin 70 amp ESC and with 4 cell 5000 amp lipos feeding them. All accommodation is made using 6 mm three ply. And every fitting you see on the boat was scratch built by me. Lighting system is 12 v grain of wheat .props are three bladed brass 45 mm by prop shop
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RAF High Speed Launch
💡Scratch built from plans. Plank on frame. Large brushless motor,150 amp esc,length is54 inches custom made propshaft ballraced at each end and middle. Has running lights,and large very bright searchlight. Flack Mats were made by better Half. Everything else was scratch built by myself.
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North Texas Shipwrights 3 November 2019
😭Video of my San Reno running around with a Graupner Kitty II and a semi scratch built tug on Towne Lake, was visited by Wile E Coyote too!!
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- CashrcAdmiralI don’t know where the Roadrunner is, maybe old Wile E Coyote scared him off.😁Liked by figtree7nts and redpmg and
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HMS Daring 1950s-1970 + wiesel
A ship that I served on 1966 - 1969 Scratched Built. (Sails well)
Wiesel German Torpedo Boat was given by a family who had dropped it and smashed completely had to rebuild(persons were going to dustbin it + radio and engines SAVED( and sails well) HMS Daring sailing at Maunsell Lock 18th Aug 2019 also Bismark making its Maiden Sailing after many trials in the Bath Great Day Out with Tone Valley MBC
Wiesel German Torpedo Boat was given by a family who had dropped it and smashed completely had to rebuild(persons were going to dustbin it + radio and engines SAVED( and sails well) HMS Daring sailing at Maunsell Lock 18th Aug 2019 also Bismark making its Maiden Sailing after many trials in the Bath Great Day Out with Tone Valley MBC
Liked by BOATSHED and RNinMunich and
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- nickAble SeamanI spent some time in the Middle East on H.M.S. Nubian ( Tribal class frigate)
H.M.S. Relentless ( Daring class) followed us back to UK. I remember days and days of watching her just behind us in the Bay of Biscay, which lived up to it's reputation. I always thought the Daring class was the last warship that really looked like a warship with her twin forward gun turrets.
Mind you I think you would have wet feet 24X7 on her waist decks.Liked by BOATSHED and RNinMunich - RNinMunichFleet AdmiralI agree sandkb, beautiful work, but in the wrong place!
Why not under it's own name and thread??
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Short video of the first test of the new vacuum table
I built this vacuum table and heater mainly to make a large canopy for a project scratch built plane I was building, (plus I thought it might be handy for other things). I had to use 1mm PTEG (same stuff they make coke bottles/packaging etc out of) as no one in the country stocks .5mm so the result was not the best, (need to get it very hot) Heater box uses the guts of a 2 bar halogen heater in the bottom, plus a 500w halogen work lamp in the side (1500W total) but still needs to be hotter. Will try and do a build post later.
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- jbkiwiFleet AdmiralThat was just a quick test, - did have about a 5mm spacer on it, but the one I did for the plane had about 30mm. Depends a lot on how thin the material is as well and you have to allow for trimming. .5 mm would have gone around a lot better. You also have to have holes through the plug as well so it pulls around the plug.
The CKD furniture company I worked for (largest in the South Pacific) pioneered round edge vinyl covered table tops in NZ using a big German press which they modified. Germans said the thin Vinyl that the company wanted to use would not work,- took them a year of experimenting and proved them wrong. Machine used a large silicone blanket and oil heated platen. - jbkiwiFleet AdmiralProbably one of the reasons Red, also they were apparently trying to compete in a saturated market after the war. They upgraded the motor a number of times (as you would have seen) and a few other mods but couldn't compete, - pity as it could have been a ripper little plane, better looking than a lot of others and faster.
As you said, tandem is not conducive to families, and a lot of companies were advertising their 4 seaters as an extension of the family car. Gone a bit the opposite these days, not many making small planes now, mainly the Chinese, (probably count them on 1 hand now) The Streak would probably fit in the sport plane class these days.
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36" Maiami Crash boat used for camera boat.
Made this in about 6 weeks for my son who was not interested so I now use it for general on water filming etc. It was scratch built from a few photos and is all balsa construction, sealed and painted. Powered by a single 12v 380 motor with a 28mm 3 blade prop. Runs flat out at around 15,000 rpm.
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- jbkiwiFleet AdmiralI haven't run nitro boats for a number of years now Doug, same with the planes, everything has been converted to electric long ago, (all the nitro planes included.) No more mess and smell of burnt fuel in the house, no having to take a roll of paper towels and soap sprayer and wash your plane or boat before putting it in the car, and no more having to put a plastic 'nose bag' on the planes to hang them up so you don't get oil dripping on your carpet!
Re- Graupner 'Premium Line', certainly sounds like their quality has dropped, you couldn't fault them in the 70s, gone the way of all the others due to competition from the home of Oolong tea by the sound of it.Liked by RNinMunich - RNinMunichFleet Admiral"everything has been converted to electric long ago"
Know what you mean John.
I've still got a 5ltr canister of pepped up glow fuel kicking about in the cellar.
Probably degenerated into uselessness by now🤔
Maybe I'll stick in the car or use it to start the barby😊
Re Premium line-
Belfast wasn't so bad, but had the same crappy plastic props held on with grub screws.
So she's getting threaded shafts and brass props from Raboesch 😉
On Graf Spee though I noticed a lot of resin casting faults, evidence of air bubbles and smudged detail, as well as over / under-spray in the painting and lifting of the wooden decks.
Had to inject liquid CA glue round the edges to stop it peeling ☹️😠
Best thing on both ships were the faultless hulls with double skinning!😉
One thing surprised me with Belfast though-
the recommended SLA batteries don't fit! I couldn't get them in any which way 🤔
Not to worry, they go in my 1:72 destroyer with ease 😊
BTW I prefer lapsang souchong 😋Liked by jbkiwi
USCG Sprinkles in Action
Hope this posting works. It's a short video.
Too hot to go out today
Rotating beacon is R/C car accessory.
Radar is modified servo.
Water monitor is scratch built with cheap pump from ebay. Draws water from outside boat . Turns with servo.
Searchlight scratch built with ultra bright led.
Too hot to go out today
Rotating beacon is R/C car accessory.
Radar is modified servo.
Water monitor is scratch built with cheap pump from ebay. Draws water from outside boat . Turns with servo.
Searchlight scratch built with ultra bright led.
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- RNinMunichFleet AdmiralSorry Commodore (!)
That won't work 🤔
You have to put the video up on YouTube and then post the link here.
Doug 😎
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Research Vessel Meteor
This is my latest build and first time at scratch building. Other than the hull I've done everything else so far and learned a great deal in scratch building. The hull was built for me by John Elsy of Newcastle as I had no experience of lifting details from the basic layout plan I had, but will learn this soon. Various stages in the build to date. it has a Graupner 500 ECKO motor pulley drive. Motor sits above the propshaft on special engine mount and the shaft has an oiler. 2 ch Futaba `T2ER 40 MHz radio which is all hidden under the false planked aft working deck. it will run on a 12v 7amp gell cell battery with a FR30HX Electronize ESC. Currently building one of the cranes.
H.Martin Stevenson
H.Martin Stevenson
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Looking good.
I would be interested to see more photos of this Lifeboat and its crew.
Martin555.