jostro65
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Master Seaman · 107 pts
Greenock, United Kingdom
Member since May 2025
Last online 1 day 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: build blog
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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Pat QoD 13/07/25
I don't get on the forum every day but I do find your QotD posts quite interesting. Do I need to know what colour a particular bhoy is, or how fast a certain b…
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Re: Fuses
I have both a 1/35 Elco on the go as well as a 1/72 PT15. The Elco has a 2 brushless set-up so no fuses in there then. Just for fun in the smaller boat I'm act…
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Fuses
Thanks folks for taking the time to read and indeed reply on the topic of fuses. It seems it's probably a good thing to add them, costs very little in time and…
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Fuses
Hey all, Looking through some builds and seeing a lot of folk adding fuses to their leccy set-ups. Some Qs..... Is this a necessary step or dependant on your c…
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