zooma
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Admiral · 9,013 pts
Rossendale, Lancashire, United Kingdom
Member since Sep 2020
Last online 7 hours ago
Age 77
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Been making r/c model power boats since the 1960's - and riding off road bicycles even longer!
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Never too old to learn
zooma’s harbour
12 boatsLesRo Sprite
More Like a Swamp Buggy? I bought this model in fairly rough condition on eBay as it was the first LesRo Sp…
Sprite Plus
This Sprite Plus is a lengthened version of the LesRo Sprite that is now 30” long to make it a better boat …
Sea Commander from a pair of old cabin sides
A friend (mad welshman - Will) sent me some plywood shapes that he hoped were from a LesRo Stiletto so that…
LESRO Rapier 1.
Here is my Lesro Rapier that was built in the 1960's by its original owner and was recovered (by myself) fr…
Thunder Tiger AVANTI
This ARTR model has kept me “active” at the lake when my restoration and rebuild projects have not been rea…
TID Tug
My first scratch built model was this TID Tug. I made the main superstructure from plastic card grafted ont…
Pursuit
Nice Birthday Present. With a birthday following my renewed interest in r/c power boats some years ago, my …
Alpha 1000 (Inception).
When I first returned to r/c model boating after many years away, I wanted something that I could use while…
zooma’s build blogs
13 blogsClassic Model Power Boats is a title that I have used for many years to describe the group of model boats that most interest me and that …
I have been very pleased with my copy of a Sea Commander, but it does exhibit a strange desire to “dive” if it should turn RIGHT into cho…
Add Strakes. Some of the older boats that I have salvaged and rebuilt, or restored have had new strakes added to the hulls, even though t…
Hardwood Strakes. I like to see strakes on the underside of my model power boats (where appropriate) and some hulls such as the deep “V” …
When I was at school and in my young to mid teens, I liked to read the Model Maker magazine that was current at that time. Although it wa…
My first ever classic r/c power boat model was built in the 1960’s from an Aerokits Swordsman kit that was paid for from my meagre appren…