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Norstar Wave Rider
She has no motor as yet, she's empty at he present time except for a old prop shaft. That will need to come out. I will probably put in a small brushless after cleaning her up and repainting.
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(Naval Ship) PT 109
She handles very well on the water, great on turns it's like she is stuck to the water. Hardly any roll at all. But then like an idiot I ran her up the side of the pond and now need a new prop and prop shaft fitted. (Motor: 26CC PETROL ENGINE) (8/10)
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7 years ago
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(Other) Graupner Rhode Island F1
The boat is an ARTR, you have to fit your own receiver and battery and use your own transmitter. I will be using Spektrumβ’ 2.4GHz DX2E marine radio system and the MR210 marine receiver. I have fitted in the receiver but up to now I haven't run this yet, but looking at online video it should be quite fast. Well that's what I am hoping. The transmitter I am using is the one that came with my Proboat Miss Geico. But the receiver is a newly purchased one. I still haven't had a chance to use this one yet. Too many other things going on at present so she will have to wait now until next spring. I think she will have to be run on a flat water. Don't know how she would react on a choppy surface. (ESC: Pre Installed) (8/10)
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7 years ago
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(Racing Boat) Miss Geico
Don't know how fast it is but straight from the box, nylon prop and 14.8 5000 mAh battery she is pretty fast. Turns on full lock of rudder at flat out. Great fun. Would recommend. I have run her many times since I added this on here. She is totally wicked. She turns so well and that's flat out. (10/10)
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High jacking threads.
I think just for now I will be leaving the site in as much as commenting on threads. I think I have stepped in a couple of times and made remarks that have upset members. I have deleted some of my last comments and hopfully that will please the people I have upset. I will keep looking on here but not sure when I will return with comments. I hope that the managment of this group, if I have offended them with my comments that I have stepped in with, would have blocked my account. If my account doesn't get blocked then I may get to speak sometime in the new year.
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HELP needed on a hull.
Hi everyone I need some HELP HELP!!!. I have been given a hull and I do not know anything about what it is and how to try to build it up. οΈοΈ. I have posted some picture and hope that some of you out there can tell me what it is and maybe show me a picture of how it should look when finished. Hopefully I can add some R/C to sail it. I have only ever been into MTB's and RAF Crash tenders and fast power boats.
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I get very confused with all this AI π€being connected in everything these days.
What has Artificial Insemination got to with Filming and and Electronics and just a bout everything else that we use or goes on in this day and age. ππ
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RNinMunich, You say,,"Another repeat today!
So anyone who screwed up last time gets another chance".
But you loose 3% when you get 1 question wrong and it tacks about 6 right questions to get 1% back.
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OH well that's another one wrong, don't know anything about other countries. Never had a passport and never been out of the UK been onto the Isle of Sheppey but not the Isle of Wight. I have been to the Isle of Elyπ€£π. I'm almost 74 and I don't think I'll get one now anyway.
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Commododore-H,
I wouldn't insult the question master by saying they were stupid questions. I would just say it is being worded wrongly.
The question needs to bee thought out carefully before it's written out.
I am a member of a Rover Classic Car Site and I have asked many questions to what would sound to be a stupid question. When I have asked it I have said I have a stupid question to ask and then written it. People have come back saying that's not a stupid question you have worded it correctly and the answer is and lots of people have come back with helpful answers.
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I answered steam bending, and it was wrong, but then surely, you wouldn't be able to fit all the strips without steam bending them as they would break. They would match the chine strips that you have had to steam bend to fit the hull skeleton in the first place?? Even my ply skins I have had to steam bend to get to fit wouldn't they be the same to a degree as the planking strips ?? I have lost 3% for that?? that doesn't make sense. Planking ? ISN'T the process that's the FITTING.
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I have been out with my boats a couple of times and someone has turned up with a submarine. They have put it into the water whilst I have been running around with a 10cc Nitro boat and one with a 26cc PT109 and I have had to come off of the water as it has gone under water and not knowing where it was and not wanting to maybe damaging the sub. That really worried me.
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Looks like they are getting ready for an orgy. No really looks fun. But won't they all fall off when the boat is running or are they all stuck on ?
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Wow that really looking great. Can't wait to see when you finish it and see her on the water and a video.
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I cannot wait to see what you do with this one. I have a different NQD cheappie in my shed that I am going to do a similar thing with, but I haven't started on it yet. To be honest I have just had fun with it just as it is. But I will get around to it one day.
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What glue are you using to fit you windows in with? I have purchased Glue'n'Glaze but haven't tried it yet.
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Well I got this one correct because I watched a film on the telly about this the other night.
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Sadly he left us before he could get to see it get to number one. Such a loss to soul and all music in general.
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Surely whether you're standing on the deck of the boat or on the ground facing the front of a boat, then the left side of the boat is still the same if you think clearly about it. it's the LEFT SIDE of the BOAT, port. I sat and read the question 3 times first then questioned my self and thought about when I used to own my own boat. It was always the same.
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Hi Graham93,
Those two video's are amazing, I didn't think their arms would work like that. Also the passenger in the rowing boat smoking a PIPE, or am I mistaken, I could see smoke coming out. Those are just brilliant.
All I can say is thanks form posting them, amazing, I don't have the thought's like that, I did have a Six Million Dollar Man and his boss man Oscar Goldman dolls and I cut them in half to use them in a 4" speed boat, and I found two pencil sharpeners in small crash helmets and took the sharpener out and they fitted the heads just right. To think now they worth a few quid my son's said I was crazy cutting them in half doing that. They were their originally but I didn't nick their Action Men.
A few years back my wife and I were walking around a boot fait and I grabbed an action man boat, well I think it was and a Barbie Dolls boat and I said I was going to turn them into R/C boat's and still not got around to it. To think Barbie is the all go now. I had been looking for Barbie doll on boot fairs last years but people are asking too much money for them now. But I still haven't started doing them yet. I am slowly building an Aeronoat Classic speed boat. The kit to me is well below standard, I should have bought the Aerokit's Sea Hornet that would have been better value for money. I do have one that I built way back in 1974. I need to strip the paint and do a full refurb, It used to have a Enya 19 glow engine in it. But all my boat's will now be going electric. Too many places banning IC engines so I sold hem all off.
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Hi ChrisF, I like the picture that you added and the thought balloons you added. The woman on the boat sounds just like my wifeππ€£
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Hi Graham93, I see you say you have use action men figures and a Disney Ariel figure. I am wondering do their arms work in they way you need them to for the rowing?
I would love to see them in action on the water, do you have any video on the water yet?
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Well i had to sit and think about that question. I have never made a diorama and needed to make fake water. Not even when I hade a model train set on an 8x4 hardboard on a wooden frame. I used to by Airfix model houses and stations but never made water effects. So I just took a stab at Resin, But as Chum444 has said on more thinking yes I suppose you could use three of those and other materials like tissue paper and Plaster of Paris then paint it then a clear Resin on top.
But I build the models and never make the fae water. I have 4 plastic MTB's built and just stuck on the small stands they come with. I haven't even painted them. My hands are now too shaky and find doing them I would mess up the painting. So I only paint my R/C models these day's. God how I hate this getting old. But there are older people o here than me I would suspect and still paint little things, I just effect us in different ways.
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π Sea rover cabin cruiser
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Hi Schmango,
I used car striping on my small RAF Crash Tender. I bought some
1/4" white and put that on it, I couldn't paint a straight line and cheated with stripe from Halfords. I done that about 5 years ago. I started building it back in 2015 and and I just stick it to one side , on top of our display unit. The display unit is full of Afghan Hound ornament's, we used to breed Afghan Hounds and show them. My wife doesn't moan about it being up there. But when I bring some other boat in she then say's not another one, You have got a shed to do them in. If you sold some of them off you would be able to work in there. I am still trying to work out the motor for the Crash Tender. I keep swapping from a brushed to a brushless and cannot decide which is the best for it.
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CommodoreH,
Wow that's good, one in a row. That's as good as the clock in my classic Rover. That's always right twice a day at 8:00- 0' clock.
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ChrisF,
That's one of the beauties of cruising the Norfolk Broads, you don't have to mess around with locks. There are a couple of quite low bridges, with large boats at both Wroxham and Potter Heigham those two there is a pilot available to get you under the bridge. My boat I had was 21ft and it would just go under both of them at high tide. I really do miss the boat at times. It was a great pick me up if I ever felt a bit down. Also the fishing up there I really loved that.
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They still make the ropes in Chatham, but only for the Navy so I have heard. But it was never as big as Portsmouth that is the largest in England, and not used for as much of the Naval purposes as Portsmouth.
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I could never get that one wrong, my dad was based there during the war. My mums was also, she came from Emsworth and was in the WRNS's that's where my dad met her.
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PhilH,
That is my Huntsman that I built way back in 1982. She has a hard life. I push my boats to the limit. I used to over power them when I ran IC engines. These brushless motors are now more powerful than IC's. It's just the cost of getting decent LiPo's. Now I am retired funds are not so available. I used to do extra overtime to fund these costly habits. Now I seem to have to sell of some of my boats or other bit's on Ebay to raise the money to but things. Eight years of retirement and enjoying not working. I have just sent off to China for a couple of 4mm flexi shafts, I cannot afford the cost's of our model shops for some of my bit's.
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HI, PhilH, I have in my shed a fibreglass Huntsman Hull I purchased from Anglia Model Shop in Gorlstone, Norfolk (A.M.S.)
just before it shut down. It has a deck fixed to it and I got it for the measly sum of Β£15.00.
I have torn the Rota Cuff in Both of my shoulders, I know the feeling you have. I had the right shoulder don 15 yrs ago and since then I have torn it again beyond repair. I was getting the left shoulder sorted just as Covid started, since then I haven't been able to get anything done with the hospital .
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π Orca and Jaws the chase, cought on video.
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Love the video, your sculpting of the Orca is amazing.
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Will you fit a nice brushless motor? π
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Hi Wolle,
That's the method that I use when experimenting with different size propellors. Once I have the one I want I then use just a dab of thread lock and tighten the two nuts together.
I have never had a problem if I have ever wanted to remove a propellor at a later date even when using the thread lock. But then I hasten to add I just use a dab just enough to secure not a lot of the stuff.
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I got todays question wrong.
Should have read the question and thought about it before I jumped in and answered the Panama Canal. It say's famous SEA route, the Northwest Passage. But isn't this still a dangerous route due to ice and is it still under Canadian ruling and Ice breakers escort as well as needs Canadian Government permission?? Isn't that why the Panama Canal was built even though for certain destination's it was a longer route. These are things I remember from things I learnt at school in history, weird I thought some Of what i listened to would never be of any use. but am I wrong ? did I get it wrong or was I told wrong. Also I just got this question wrong and I have just dropped from 93% to 89% ??
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Hi Len1, Ideally you would be buying the cheaper ones off of Ebay, ie plastic, nylon and experiment with them.
The 18" & 21" possibly from 25mm up and the 42" 35 to 40mm up.
That is only going from the models that I have run. But you might get better information to come from others.
Yes brass gets expensive when it comes to testing.
But I don't know what the situation for thing fro Ebay or other dealers are over in the USA.
Good luck in testing. I found it fun.
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