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📝 Games Chest Vanished
22 days ago by 🇬🇧 HAKits (
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very interesting, but what has this got to do with model boats
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📝 Graupner Optimist
2 months ago by 🇬🇧 HAKits ( Petty Officer 1st Class)
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It looks like there should be a beading on the leading edge of the sail which sides into the slot on the rear of the mast.
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💬 Re: Nipper
4 months ago by 🇬🇧 HAKits ( Petty Officer 1st Class)
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Nice work. HAKits are designed to be practical and sail well.
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💬 Re: Flying Christine2
1 year ago by 🇬🇧 HAKits ( Petty Officer 1st Class)
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Nice Model, I hope you enjoyed the build.
The first Flying Christine was a converted air sea rescue launch, unfortunately it was destroyed in a storm. The Flying Christine II was the commissioned to replace it. In the 90s she was replaced by The Flying Christine III, which looks like a pilot boat design.
The first Flying Christine was a converted air sea rescue launch, unfortunately it was destroyed in a storm. The Flying Christine II was the commissioned to replace it. In the 90s she was replaced by The Flying Christine III, which looks like a pilot boat design.
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📝 Stuffing box grease?
1 year ago by 🇬🇧 HAKits ( Petty Officer 1st Class)
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I have always used petroleum jelly
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📝 ShoeString II
1 year ago by 🇬🇧 HAKits ( Petty Officer 1st Class)
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Hi, with modern esc's there is no need for a rx battery. the power comes from the BEC.
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📝 ShoeString II
1 year ago by 🇬🇧 HAKits ( Petty Officer 1st Class)
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available from ebay or HAKits
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📝 ShoeString II
1 year ago by 🇬🇧 HAKits ( Petty Officer 1st Class)
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Hi, I thought you might like to see the new model from HAKits 36" long all plywood construction with 3d printed fittings. she sails very well with a good turn of speed and very stable.
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💬 Re: F1 Gulf
2 years ago by 🇬🇧 HAKits ( Petty Officer 1st Class)
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I too love the Gulf racing colours and have used them on several models.
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💬 Re: Graupner Adolph Bermpohl
2 years ago by 🇬🇧 HAKits ( Petty Officer 1st Class)
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I have taken photos of the mechanism. Mounted on the side of the hull, It operates a push rod to the door.
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💬 Re: Graupner Adolph Bermpohl
2 years ago by 🇬🇧 HAKits ( Petty Officer 1st Class)
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Hello, I am refurbishing one at the moment and am planning on talking the mechanism out.
I am looking for a plan for the model, can you help
I am looking for a plan for the model, can you help
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📝 Site issues
2 years ago by 🇬🇧 HAKits ( Petty Officer 1st Class)
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Yes , all seems fine for me. I'm using old windows 7
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📝 1/10 scale figures
2 years ago by 🇬🇧 HAKits ( Petty Officer 1st Class)
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Hi Jim, I use a company called real model pilots, They are mainly aircraft but do some civilian and marine figures to any scale you wish. www.realmodelpilots.co.uk
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💬 Re: Lorelei
3 years ago by 🇬🇧 HAKits ( Petty Officer 1st Class)
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I put 2 jet drives in mine which gave good performance. from a 2s lipo
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📝 Battery driven motors
3 years ago by 🇬🇧 HAKits ( Petty Officer 1st Class)
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Hi Chris, you are bang on, the 600 is a bit too powerful. The slipper launch is a fairly slow river boat, not made for racing. I recommend a 500 size brushed motor as a good option. keep the battery voltage to 6v -7.4v
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💬 Re: Thames Slipper Launch
3 years ago by 🇬🇧 HAKits ( Petty Officer 1st Class)
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Hello,
I now have a fittings kit available on request for this model. video on www.hakit.co.uk
I now have a fittings kit available on request for this model. video on www.hakit.co.uk
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📝 I need help identifying/locating these fittings
3 years ago by 🇬🇧 HAKits ( Petty Officer 1st Class)
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It looks like Robart quick release joint. these are normaly used in model aircraft. Available from Bobs Hobbies. Orlando.
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💬 Re: Maiden Voyage
4 years ago by 🇬🇧 HAKits ( Petty Officer 1st Class)
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Great to see the younger generation getting involved. This was exactly my idea when i started to produce the small simple kits. Well done.
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💬 Re: Mast.
4 years ago by 🇬🇧 HAKits ( Petty Officer 1st Class)
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I do have 3d printed masts and did include them in the kit but people said they liked to varnish a wooden mast rather than paint the plastic to look like wood. I will include both from now on. If any body wants a plastic mast just email me. Paul HAKits
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📝 Plans
4 years ago by 🇬🇧 HAKits ( Petty Officer 1st Class)
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I have built a couple of these boats many years ago, the kit uses a plastic hull so I don't think the plans have any hull lines or formers. I will try and find them and check if you wish.
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📝 union flag
4 years ago by 🇬🇧 HAKits ( Petty Officer 1st Class)
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Well my posting on getting the correct size flag has stirred a hornets nest. When i photographed to flags they were the correct way up and they are correct in my file but when i posted them they flipped upside down, anybody know why?
anyway here is the flag on its staff.
anyway here is the flag on its staff.
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📝 union flag
4 years ago by 🇬🇧 HAKits ( Petty Officer 1st Class)
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Hello, just a little tip for people looking for realistic union flags. I needed a large-ish flag for my slipper launch, at 1/8 scale it needed to be about 4" the larges i could fine in the model shop was about 2" and cost about £4.50. I bought it as there was nothing else. I then looked on line and after several searches found small polyester waving flags. The union flag was twice the size I needed, but the seller also sold an Australian flag. so i bought that £2.99 and cut the union flag from it. Perfect😉
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📝 Norstar model fireboat.
4 years ago by 🇬🇧 HAKits ( Petty Officer 1st Class)
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Hi Colin, I have copied the plan, If you send your address I will post it out to you. Please PM me.
Cheers Paul.
Cheers Paul.
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📝 Norstar model fireboat.
4 years ago by 🇬🇧 HAKits ( Petty Officer 1st Class)
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Hello Colin, the plan is half size. I dont realy want to let it go but will happily try and copy it for you.
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📝 Norstar model fireboat.
4 years ago by 🇬🇧 HAKits ( Petty Officer 1st Class)
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I might be a bit late with this but i have only just seen the post. The Norstar fire boat was my second boat build in about 1976 and i still have the plan, is it any use to you?
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💬 Re: HAKITS MORSTON
5 years ago by 🇬🇧 HAKits ( Petty Officer 1st Class)
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I found for 1/12 scale lobster pots the blue beard and hair nets are about the right size, the cheap brown ones are too fine. I 3d printed a frame, sprayed it with photo mount adhesive and rapped the net around, but not stretching too tight. when dry i trimmed off any excess and spray painted the whole thing black. hope this helps
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💬 Re: HAKITS Morston
5 years ago by 🇬🇧 HAKits ( Petty Officer 1st Class)
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To clear some thing up, I spend alot of time in North Norfolk, Blakeney in particular. Moored there is a small open launch called the Teal.(see photos) It has a clinker built hull, I decided to model it but as my kits are designed to be easy to build I adapted it to have a single chine hull (The green boat in photo). A friend of mine liked the model but thought it would look better with a shelter, using the same hull as the Blakeney I added a shelter and so the Morston was born.(Blue boat) It is in no way a scale model but a product of my imagination. Hope this helps.
For people not familiar with Norfolk, Morston is the next village to Blakeney.
For people not familiar with Norfolk, Morston is the next village to Blakeney.
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💬 Re: Jet powered ski boat
5 years ago by 🇬🇧 HAKits ( Petty Officer 1st Class)
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Thanks for the kind comments Pete.
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💬 Re: Jet powered ski boat
5 years ago by 🇬🇧 HAKits ( Petty Officer 1st Class)
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the jet units can be found on ebay, just search for model boat jet drive
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📝 Jet powered ski boat
5 years ago by 🇬🇧 HAKits ( Petty Officer 1st Class)
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I recently bought a couple of cheap jet drive units, about £15 each and was wondering what to do with them. A friend suggested i put one in my ski boat, so i shoe horned both of them in.
sorry about the video, i can't turn it round.
sorry about the video, i can't turn it round.
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