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📝 Venice water taxi
4 months ago by 🇩🇪 Willem (
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Hello ian,
I purchased a plan from Gilberto Penzo . From this plan I only used the shape of the hull and the height of the cabin. The rest is copied from photos on the internet.
I have fitted a stern drive that is partly hidden in a flooded compartment behind the motor. In the rear, where the stern drive comes out of the hull, I designed a cover and 3D printed it.
With the stern drive I found that you have to grease it by appying grease into the small tube/pipe on top of the drive. This has nowhere been shown in any paper that I have seen.
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I purchased a plan from Gilberto Penzo . From this plan I only used the shape of the hull and the height of the cabin. The rest is copied from photos on the internet.
I have fitted a stern drive that is partly hidden in a flooded compartment behind the motor. In the rear, where the stern drive comes out of the hull, I designed a cover and 3D printed it.
With the stern drive I found that you have to grease it by appying grease into the small tube/pipe on top of the drive. This has nowhere been shown in any paper that I have seen.
Willem
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4 months ago by 🇳🇿 IanL1 (
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Hi Willem, Coincidentally that's who I ended up getting plans from as well. My plans are different to yours as he sent me 4 full size sheets that covered the 1/10 scale so I was able to trace the frames etc directly. However to of the sheets were not of the same plans so I had a fair bit of off line design to do myself. Thankfully the internet helped and I am pleased with the outcome. I have yet to put the name on her and more on this subject once I have it so watch this space, as they say. I am sure other modellers will be interested as well. Cheers Ian
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4 months ago by 🇩🇪 Willem (
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📝 some progress with the taxiboat
4 months ago by 🇩🇪 Willem ( Petty Officer 1st Class)
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Some progress with my taxi boat.
The steps make a nice detail. Implementing the windows was challenging: first the fittings and then gluing the "glass" without making a mess of it. I used a suction pen, used for handling SMDs, to hold and handle the glass.
Still need to add some handles and doors.
The boat is easy to steer, and the bow thruster is working fine.
The steps make a nice detail. Implementing the windows was challenging: first the fittings and then gluing the "glass" without making a mess of it. I used a suction pen, used for handling SMDs, to hold and handle the glass.
Still need to add some handles and doors.
The boat is easy to steer, and the bow thruster is working fine.
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4 months ago by 🇮🇹 AlessandroSPQR (
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Beautiful motorboat.
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💬 Re: some progress with the taxiboat
4 months ago by 🇳🇿 IanL1 (
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Wow, for a minute I thought it was my boat. Looks good, especially in the water. I have yet to give mine a good run in open waters as I have only tested in our pool but its' not large enough to open her up. Did you use a stern drive unit or prop shaft and where did you source your plans from as I had great difficulty in getting hold of some. Cheers Ian
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📝 Update to your questions
6 months ago by 🇩🇪 Willem ( Petty Officer 1st Class)
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About the sterndrive, I believe this drive originaly comes from Graupner (G for Graupner), but this compagny doesn't exist anymore, only there sender/receivers survived.
I purchased my Sterndrive with Bauer-Modelle.com.
The driver is from 3drifter-miniatures.de
My original drawings came from Gilberto Penzo in Venice,
I purchased my Sterndrive with Bauer-Modelle.com.
The driver is from 3drifter-miniatures.de
My original drawings came from Gilberto Penzo in Venice,
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📝 Venice water taxi
6 months ago by 🇩🇪 Willem ( Petty Officer 1st Class)
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I'm building a Venice water taxiboat from scratch.
The hull has been build from triplex covered with mahagoni stripes.
There is still a lot of work to be done, but technics are working and I hope to get here on the water in the comming week.
The hull has been build from triplex covered with mahagoni stripes.
There is still a lot of work to be done, but technics are working and I hope to get here on the water in the comming week.
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6 months ago by 🇳🇿 IanL1 (
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Chris, Your build looks great as well and I like the way you fitted in out inside. I had to keep it all in the rear engine space so it was all a bit tight. Good fun lining up the drive on the stern unit to get it correct, Cheers Ian
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6 months ago by 🇳🇿 IanL1 (
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Hi Willem, Looks very good and well put together. Where did you get the driver from as I would one fopr my VWT. I have looked everywhere but to no avail. Regarding Chris's comment about the stern leg. I have used the same one and it siezed up up soon after water trial. When I went to the supplier I was told the warranty doesn't exist due to the Ukrane war as that is where the units were made and the business is no more. Disassembled and rebuilt with lubricant and now it spins freely. but yet to do full sea trial.
Willem keep us posted on your progress. I have attached a couple of photos of mine so far. Cheers Ian 
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6 months ago by 🇬🇧 ChrisF (
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Hi Willem
Looks similar to mine, though mine is the G-Power 150. I struggled to find one small enough as well as my Huntress is at a scale of 1:12 so only 23" long. But this one was fine and I formed a recess in the transom to reduce the impact of the quite large housing. I noticed a year or so back that there was no stock on some of the stern-drives but was hoping they would be re-stocked again but having just looked at the site there are now no stern-drives at all and very few parts. Wishing now I'd bough another unit as a spare. I will have to limit the amount I use this boat and be very careful with it! Chris 
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6 months ago by 🇨🇦 Ronald (
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Ron Bauer here in Canada 🇨🇦 interesting that there is another Bauer on here but that one is selling parts.
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6 months ago by 🇩🇪 Willem (
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Hi Chris,
this Z-drive is realy purchased from Bauer, but I purchased the last available. This was the only available small enough to fit. Unfortunaly they are not produced anymore. I designed and printet a "canopy" to have a more clean look. 
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6 months ago by 🇬🇧 ChrisF (
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Very nice. That looks like a Bauer-Modelle stern-drive? I used their smaller one in my Huntress build and it performs really well.
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6 months ago by 🇺🇸 chugalone100 (
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Your Venice water taxi is spectacular. Great finish job.
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6 months ago by 🇺🇸 Chum444 (
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The vaporetta is a mainstay of transportation on the Grand Canal in Venice. Nice work on an interesting subject.
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6 months ago by 🇺🇸 DWBrinkman (
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Very nice! Beautiful boat.
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6 months ago by 🇬🇧 luckyduck (
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A class build - looks the business.
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6 months ago by 🇺🇸 jumpugly (
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Simply…
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