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Question. What is special about this model in your opinion?
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📝 Question. What is special about this model in your opinion?
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Thanks Ross, size L for me, ahahahahah.
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Lieutenant Commander📝 Question. What is special about this model in your opinion?
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Thinking you're not very smart??
Join the club, we've got jackets!!😉
Join the club, we've got jackets!!😉
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📝 Question. What is special about this model in your opinion?
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Hey Jbkiwi, you did a great and difficult job, congratulations.
Maybe you could make a paper model RC too. I wouldn't even try.
Anyway, I'm glad that no one noticed, at first glance, that that perfectly made model was made of paper.
I only realized it after looking at it carefully because I knew it. Well, I console myself, I was thinking I wasn't very smart.
Maybe you could make a paper model RC too. I wouldn't even try.
Anyway, I'm glad that no one noticed, at first glance, that that perfectly made model was made of paper.
I only realized it after looking at it carefully because I knew it. Well, I console myself, I was thinking I wasn't very smart.
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Fleet Admiral📝 Question. What is special about this model in your opinion?
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Wooden carved hulls can work if you do a lot of chiseling. I made this R/C one from a driftwood beam I found on a walk round a peninsular I lived near around 1975. Beam was 12"x12"x 4ft. -ended up around 3ftx 10". Fitted with a 500 brushed motor running on a small 6v motorbike battery and using an OS Cougar 2ch radio. Cabin was 3mm marine ply. Sailed really realistically with just the right amount of roll. Took a LOT of grinding, chiseling and sanding and blisters, as it was something like Oregon and was well 'seasoned' after being in the sea for a long time.
The next tug built around 1979 was the complete opposite, made from a polystyrene block and fiberglassed. Around 40' x 12"
JB
The next tug built around 1979 was the complete opposite, made from a polystyrene block and fiberglassed. Around 40' x 12"
JB
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Sub-Lieutenant📝 Question. What is special about this model in your opinion?
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Well on you Doug!
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📝 Question. What is special about this model in your opinion?
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YES!!!
Great Doug!
EXCELLENT!
This is the SMS GOETZEN, a German armed merchant ship from 1915 (precisely a Q boat).
The paper kit is from GPM.
They really impress me.
You can't tell at first glance that they are made of paper.
Great Doug!
EXCELLENT!
This is the SMS GOETZEN, a German armed merchant ship from 1915 (precisely a Q boat).
The paper kit is from GPM.
They really impress me.
You can't tell at first glance that they are made of paper.
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📝 Question. What is special about this model in your opinion?
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The other possibility is a 'Card Model'!
There are some wonderful exponents of this art out there.
Of course it might be possible to RC some special functions as a 'dry dock' model, but I wouldn't want to put it in the water😮🤔
Cheers All, Doug😎
There are some wonderful exponents of this art out there.
Of course it might be possible to RC some special functions as a 'dry dock' model, but I wouldn't want to put it in the water😮🤔
Cheers All, Doug😎
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Young at heart 😉 Slightly older in other places.😊 Cheers Doug
📝 Question. What is special about this model in your opinion?
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Think about it: besides a solid hull naval model, which naval model cannot be transformed into RC (or in any case is very difficult to do so)?
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📝 Question. What is special about this model in your opinion?
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Hello to all naval modelers on this forum.
I was going to give you the solution but given Doug and Chum444's answers, I decided not to, because you're getting close.
You are on the right track.
You are exceptional, you gave a logical and correct answer.
This is not the case however.
It's not a solid carved hull (actually I wouldn't even try to make it RC) but something else.
Congratulations again to everyone (even those who only read but don't write) for not taking the shortcut by doing research on the Web.
I was going to give you the solution but given Doug and Chum444's answers, I decided not to, because you're getting close.
You are on the right track.
You are exceptional, you gave a logical and correct answer.
This is not the case however.
It's not a solid carved hull (actually I wouldn't even try to make it RC) but something else.
Congratulations again to everyone (even those who only read but don't write) for not taking the shortcut by doing research on the Web.
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📝 Question. What is special about this model in your opinion?
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I totally agree with RNinMunich’s post but would make a slight addition; one with a solid “machine” carved hull.
I once tried to turn an antique hand-carved hollow hull into RC. Got all the running gear in place & installed ballast to waterline. First turn on maiden voyage it heeled over & would not right itself. Would have sunk were I not right there to grab it.
Added a LOT more ballast & put it the test tank. When heeled over it simply could not right itself. Now lives on a shelf as a display model.
Returning to the original challenge posed RN is right; a solid hull would be extremely difficult to convert to RC.
I once tried to turn an antique hand-carved hollow hull into RC. Got all the running gear in place & installed ballast to waterline. First turn on maiden voyage it heeled over & would not right itself. Would have sunk were I not right there to grab it.
Added a LOT more ballast & put it the test tank. When heeled over it simply could not right itself. Now lives on a shelf as a display model.
Returning to the original challenge posed RN is right; a solid hull would be extremely difficult to convert to RC.
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