ChrisF
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Scratch building 7 Faireys at a scale of 1:12 and also have 2 built by Dave Milbourn
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5 boatsMy RTR/ARTR Plastic Power Boats
I bought the Club 500 first, ready assembled, off a fellow club member so that I could get used to operatin…
Non-Classic Fairey Builds
These come from the era of classic boats, including the 1960s and 70s and were timber hulled. The Fisherman…
Other Classic Fairey Builds
In addition to the Huntress I'm building all the other classic Faireys at the same scale of 1:12. None of t…
Fairey Huntresses
I mainly scratch build my own models but when Dave Milbourn offered me one of the prototypes he'd built for…
My ARTR Plastic Yachts
I bought the HydroPro Affinity not long after I started the hobby to learn to sail and do some club racing.…
ChrisF’s build blogs
8 blogsI mentioned on another thread that I was thinking of a build to use an outboard motor that had originally been planned for my Fairey Faun…
The hull sides have been painted white and will now be left for a week or more for the paint to harden. Reason I leave it that long is I …
This build is around the same percentage complete as my Swordsman - the hull is further forward with the bottom and sides being painted b…
A discussion has started on another thread (Bobs,* A Super Rapier*) and this is going to continue so thought it best to start one of its …
Made the bilge keels from two laminations of mahogany sheet to get the correct thickness and then glued them in place. Once this was done…
In my quest to get all my Faireys to something like completion I have dusted off this model. The Huntsman 28, whilst well known in full-s…
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♥ 13 likesRe: Build a 35"Model In Under Six Hours!@chugalone100 You're most welcome Julian. You will have to call it something different though as it falls between the Stiletto at around 26" and Rapier at around 39" being 30" long. Be interesting seeing it bu…♥ 13 likesRe: Build a 35"Model In Under Six Hours!6 hours, yeah right! I didn't build many models when I was young, few Airfix aircraft kits and finished off a plane but never flew it. So I only really got into this hobby around 10 years ago at 62/63 years of…♥ 13 likesRe: New planing hull design.Evening Alessandro - as I've mentioned before this type of hull is very buoyant and stable and within reason you don't need to worry about the weight of the superstructure. Window openings will lessen the weig…♥ 6 likesSea VixenWell it's Plan B! I tried both motors and neither would work despite them being in as new condition. One is 1.5v and the other 3.0v so neither is that powerful and they are rather toy like so I'm shelving that…
♥ 9 likesRe: Question from a while back@EdW Thanks Ed, I really must get down there! Chris♥ 6 likesRe: Question from a while backI see that the water level is still low Ed.♥ 6 likesRe: Animal and nature photos to enjoy.@AlessandroSPQR Tell me about it! When one our son's was still living at home he was woken one morning by a banging noise from the garden below his bedroom. It was a crow pulling on the feeders. He managed to …♥ 11 likesRe: Animal and nature photos to enjoy.I've had a friendly blackbird in the past and of course robins but now have another who is called Russell as well! He attracts my attention when he wants feeding, which is more frequent as we go into winter, b…
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