jostro65
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Master Seaman · 128 pts
Greenock, United Kingdom
Member since May 2025
Last online 4 days ago
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Scale modeller mostly, RC experience is limited to pre-built cars/planes/drones.
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With age comes experience, with more age comes forgetting what you knew!
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Re: Been viewing for some time. So I thought I had better make a posting
Yeah Lew that's a nice bit of kit and something I can only dream of having! I have a small, open bed-slinger type so very restricted on the materials i can use…
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Re: Been viewing for some time. So I thought I had better make a posting
@ColRay. yeah I also stuck to pla with intention of plenty of varnish coats to help keep it dry inside. I don't have the facility to use ABS which is what a fe…
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Re: Been viewing for some time. So I thought I had better make a posting
@ColRay Hi Col, what filament are you using, and are you using the same material for the complete build?
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Re: Been viewing for some time. So I thought I had better make a posting
Hi Col, interesting to see yet another member looking at more use of 3d for the larger parts rather than for detailing. After reading a post recently I decided…
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Cheating you say . Maybe they said that when moving from steam to IC, then from IC to leccy....Could also say building from a kit rather than scratch is same. …
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Re: HMCS Snowberry - Revell 1/72 basic kit RC Conversion
Just an incredible piece of work. I have just started this kit, same scale, not intended for conversion. There's just no way I can see it ending anywhere close…
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Advice welcome
Hi I all, Been a while getting back to this build but here goes. Just doing some fiddling to get the innards installed and balanced in the water. Aside from th…
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Re: Classic Water-Cooled Model Power Boat Engines.
I came to RC pretty late and it's mostly been leccy, but my first couple of planes were nitro, reading this and can almost taste the smoke again!
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When space runs out .....
Is there such a thing as "enough" for folks like us?
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When space runs out .....
Hi all, lack of space in the house means I am confined to the loft for my modelling. Along with the usual problems such as spray painting, which restricts my c…
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