ChrisF 🇬🇧 Bronze
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“Scratch building 7 Faireys at a scale of 1:12”
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4 boatsNon-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
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Re: New planing hull design.
Forgot to mention as regards the prop shaft angle. As well as this being determined by the motor position and size of prop you need to allow for space between …
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Re: New planing hull design.
Woke up this morning and thought I must mention hull shape and construction which are interlinked! Once you have moved towards finalising the basic hull shape;…
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Re: New planing hull design.
Alessandro. I'm rather regretting my comment on "don't go too long and narrow"! It was based on my observations of some models that didn't turn nicely into tur…
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Re: New planing hull design.
Thanks Chugalone. It will look even slicker when I've finished the painting and started fitting some details!
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Re: New planing hull design.
Immersed volume. At what position are you calculating this from? The chine is usually the same as the waterline, or very close. At a length of between 700 and …
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Alessandro. I have a feeling that this could be a long, albeit interesting thread! Though no doubt you are keen to get on with the design of the hull! Your las…
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Re: New planing hull design.
I know the prop shaft is a consideration for later but aim for an angle of 12 degrees maximum though the odd degree more won't hurt. The Huntsman 28 was my fir…
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Re: New planing hull design.
Hi Alessandro I don't do naval craft, so does this exclude me from the discussion! Only joking! But I do do planing hulls! As you say easier to design than dis…
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Re: Sails and their rope modules
Interesting discussion as I'm not too far off having to sort out the operation of the sails on my Fisherman build. I don't have room for a sail arm servo so I'…
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Re: build blog
Before I start any new builds (despite printing the drawings out for one of them!) I've decided that I must progress some of my existing ones with painting bei…
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