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Hi Colin, I am so glad to hear that your Caroline is back home. Where she belongs! And I'll continue to have both of you in my prayers! As always, All the Best! Cheers, Ed & Jen

3 hours ago by 🇺🇸 figtree7nts (

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Graupner mc-26

ToraDog, Not at all - any info adds to the understanding. I played with the Robbe system a few years back and unfortunately my memory is not what it once was.... I now remember that the centre pin on the switch units is normally "unswitched positive" and live all the time whilst connected to a power supply. The 2 outer pins are switched ground allowing/facilitating 2 switch circuits per channel ToraDog - is that your understanding? Still can't remember how you serve different voltages to different channels - indeed it's not obvious how you connect any battery directly to the Graupner unit as unlike the Robbe version their is no "battery" connection identified - the unit itself being powered I presume from the receiver patch lead.... Regards Jonathan _._

3 hours ago by 🇬🇧 G6SWJ (

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Painting the Lesterville

I am making two superstructures of this Ville class tugboat, the Lesterville is currently in Port Dover, Ontario and is a white and yellow scheme. The other will be the Beamsville currently in Tofino, B.C. and has a paint scheme of red and white. The decks are both grey, though the Beamsville skipper sent me photos of the stern and his is different than the Lesterville. I will adopt features from both, though the hatch in the stern, must stay as it houses my rudder double control horn. Beamsville also has white bulwarks which I will keep versus all black of Lesterville. The cap on the bulwarks are made from the plastic hanging basket hangers found in your local gardening store. They work great for railings too.

3 hours ago by 🇨🇦 Ron (

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LST 368

When you mention the 'coupling things' Nerys, do you mean the coupling from the motor to the propshaft, if so, then you'll find that no kit producer puts those in, cause were funny about our couplings, if it's the tiller arms, all my kits from Deans have had the tiller arms in white metal, absolutely rubbish, you really need to upgrade that part, if you're having trouble getting them, PM me. Cheers, Pete😊

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ive heard royalty dont carry cash on them brian

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Airboat, getting back to it (camera)

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Small Scratch Built Yacht

Again a 1980's picture at Woodbridge, this time a scratch built small yacht from a free plan. Fixed sails, rudder only

2 days ago by mistyoptic

Solarcraft Dolphin

Picture here of a Solarcraft Dolphin I was sailing on the pond at Woodbridge during the 1980's

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Graupner Elke

boats im working on, sea commander behind it and unknown trawler behind that ...

8 days ago by woodie - paul

Lesro Rapier?

bought this a month ago - picked it up yesterday - i love it 😍

8 days ago by woodie - paul

Galley News

This boat represents a small inter-island coastal freighter that would carry almost anything from the mainland to the islands of any coast. I don't know what the actual speed is, but it is just slightly faster than scale. It has a 6V battery that I have never run down on an outing. Galley is hard chined, very responsive, and (I think) presents well on the water.

10 days ago by Black Shoe

SMS Komet

Built from the Dean's Marine kit S Y Komet from 2009 to 2011 with added features such as brass props, lighting to hull, lower & upper decks, wheelhouse, navigation and mast searchlight, Steam Master smoke module, sound module from Model Sounds Inc. (klaxon, fog horn, twin triple expansion steam engines, 8mm machine gun and 37mm canon. Two machine gunners which rotate. If link below doesn't work just type in SMS Komet on YouTube. Should have posted this when I built it but it was my first build after retiring and new to everything. Lockdown has made me stop to record more. Some of you may have seen it at MB shows (who remembers them?) so we need more videos etc!

10 days ago by seafarer

MTB

Scratch built from photographs. The forward gun traverses via a servo and the searchlights are bright LEDs (4½v). Also a homemade "whoop" sound system.

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MV Gladys B.

Scratch built from photographs, power is a Decaperm 6 volt.

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