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📝 Fairey Marine Builds
10 days ago by 🇬🇧 ChrisF (
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I haven’t done anything on my builds since before last Christmas for various reasons but am looking forward to starting again in the next couple of weeks.
I’ve been working on a number of builds for some years and not finished one yet! Main reason is that I reach a certain point, maybe something I’m hesitant about, and so start another! Which is the reason I’ve got five on the go.
I’m building all the classic Faireys; Huntsman 28, Huntsman 31 and Swordsman 33 and a rarer Huntress 23 with a stern drive and longer cabin. Also a River Cruiser 23 (the one and only full-size build was a prototype was based on a modified Huntress hull but with more freeboard which disappeared) and I have the plans drawn up to start a Fisherman 27 motor sailer and a Faun 17 river/lake cruiser. All builds are at a scale of 1:12.
The River Cruiser and Huntress are further on as they have had lake trials with the others being at the painting stage which I will be taking up again soon.
I use a Hitec Flash 8 Tx and Rx’s and Hitec servos with Overlander brushless motors (even in my slower models) and HobbyWing Quicrun and Seaking ESC’s along with LiPo batteries though will probably use NiMh in the Fisherman and Faun.
I’ve been working on a number of builds for some years and not finished one yet! Main reason is that I reach a certain point, maybe something I’m hesitant about, and so start another! Which is the reason I’ve got five on the go.
I’m building all the classic Faireys; Huntsman 28, Huntsman 31 and Swordsman 33 and a rarer Huntress 23 with a stern drive and longer cabin. Also a River Cruiser 23 (the one and only full-size build was a prototype was based on a modified Huntress hull but with more freeboard which disappeared) and I have the plans drawn up to start a Fisherman 27 motor sailer and a Faun 17 river/lake cruiser. All builds are at a scale of 1:12.
The River Cruiser and Huntress are further on as they have had lake trials with the others being at the painting stage which I will be taking up again soon.
I use a Hitec Flash 8 Tx and Rx’s and Hitec servos with Overlander brushless motors (even in my slower models) and HobbyWing Quicrun and Seaking ESC’s along with LiPo batteries though will probably use NiMh in the Fisherman and Faun.
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6 hours ago by 🇬🇧 ChrisF (
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Thanks JB, will do.
I've actually got another Fairey in the fleet, a Huntress that was built by the late Dave Milbourn as one of two prototypes he built for the drawings he was producing for Sarik. I bought it off Dave some years ago and it set me off on my 1:12 builds. This is the model on the left in the photo and is soon to be joined by the other prototype. Chris 
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22 hours ago by 🇳🇿 jbkiwi (
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That's a nice collection Chris, looking forward to some videos.
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6 days ago by 🇬🇧 ChrisF (
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Stop it Will! How are you doing?
Fairey Bulldog, I had to Google that one! Probably not, as I will be all Faireyed out with the two future builds! And one image looked similar to a Stiletto/Rapier. Chris ▲
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8 days ago by 🇬🇧 Madwelshman (
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No plans for building a Bulldog as well Chris? 😉
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10 days ago by 🇬🇧 ChrisF (
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Future builds are the Fisherman 27 motor sailer and Faun 17 river/lake cruiser. Drawings were a challenge as they are not hard chine and especially the former as it was based on a design for a ship’s lifeboat which took some work to get it right. I say that, as I will find out when I finally start it! Looking forward to building something with sails.
The Faun was based on their 16' 6" Falcon sailing dingy and was designed for an outboard motor but some were converted to inboard, which is what I'm doing, certainly initially, as finding a decent outboard at the right scale is a bit of a problem though I have bought a couple of possibilities, we will see. The drawings were produced from the brochure. I've already bought brushless motors for these models. Some might call them overkill for such slow models but my experience with the River Cruiser is that it runs very smoothly at slow speeds and I like brushless motors! I’ve produced drawings for a non-Fairey, water-jet project but that will be a separate thread. 
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10 days ago by 🇬🇧 ChrisF (
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Fifth build was the Huntress 23 but not the usual one you see drawings and kits for. I wanted to build a model with a stern-drive and the long cabin version (which I prefer) had one. Being different I cracked on with this one and is the other that’s seen water but needs finishing.
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10 days ago by 🇬🇧 ChrisF (
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Fourth build was the Huntsman 31. Originally started off as the rarer full open cockpit version (no aft cabin) called the Sport but as I sold my big 47” version and had a number of big cockpit models decided to change it to the usual aft cabin version.
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10 days ago by 🇬🇧 ChrisF (
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Third build was the Swordsman 33. There are drawings for these but I modified them to produce the aft cabin version where the roof sits just below the coamings. Work stalled when I came to do the planked deck! Done now and at painting stage.
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10 days ago by 🇬🇧 ChrisF (
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Second build was a diversion from my planned builds and is the River Cruiser. As said before it is from a prototype and I worked from a black and white photograph. Not too bad though as it’s based on a modified Huntress hull. I used the available Huntress drawings as a starting point. Brushless might sound a bit OTT but it performs very nicely at slow speeds and they are my go to motors - did think about brushed but couldn't find anything I fancied - I like the engineering of brushless. This is one of the ones to have had lake trials but still work to do.
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10 days ago by 🇬🇧 ChrisF (
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First build was the Huntsman 28 which I’ve modified so that the whole superstructure lifts off. This was tricky as it has a full open cockpit and is slender at the transom and sides.
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