Registered
14th Feb 2017

Last Online
24th Nov 2018

Hugh

Recent Posts

A Birthday Wish! by Hugh Sub-Lieutenant   Posted: 3 months ago ✓ Like This Post   ( 0 )

Belated happy birthday Ed. Yes, grandchildren are great. My 71st birthday today and waiting for a phone call from my son. Cheers Hugh

MAGGA DAN by Hugh Sub-Lieutenant   Posted: 5 months ago ✓ Like This Post   ( 0 )

Fantastic job👍

Bristol pilot cutter mascotte by Hugh Sub-Lieutenant   Posted: 10 months ago ✓ Like This Post   ( 0 )

Good tip Hammer. Will try that.

bristol pilot cutter

Quote from A Higher Loyalty: Truth, Lies, and Leadership by Hugh Sub-Lieutenant   Posted: 10 months ago ✓ Like This Post   ( 1 )

Never expected to get words of wisdom, and truth, from a model boats website! Thanks! 👍

model boats website model ship web site

HS Simitzopoulos P28 by Hugh Sub-Lieutenant   Posted: 1 year ago ✓ Like This Post   ( 1 )

I also like your attention to detail. Your radar masts turn and, your flag flies in the breeze! Cheers Hugh

HS Simitzopoulos P28 by Hugh Sub-Lieutenant   Posted: 1 year ago ✓ Like This Post   ( 1 )

Love the way she looks in the water. My father in law was an officer in the Hellenic navy, and the name of your ship grabbed my attention.Great! Love it!

ship

Clyde Puffer by Hugh Sub-Lieutenant   Posted: 1 year ago ✓ Like This Post   ( 1 )

Hi Alan, I, too, am building a Clyde Puffer. Mine is scratch built ,and same scale as yours. I have installed a 6:1 brushed electric motor. I wanted scale speed . The shaft length was 11" from memory. Interested in how you get on. Clyde puffers were lovely ships. Cheers Hugh

motor electric build ship scratch scratch brush clyde puffer brushed motor wanted brushed clyde built

Warning by Hugh Sub-Lieutenant   Posted: 2 years ago ✓ Like This Post   ( 0 )

Japanese safety boots are the go then?

How many is to Many by Hugh Sub-Lieutenant   Posted: 2 years ago ✓ Like This Post   ( 0 )

I have two working,one almost there and another scratch built coming up, plus 5 static models. We are strange folk, but must have something in common to be building and sailing them.

model sailing build scratch scratch sail scratch build built

Futaba Attack 2ER by Hugh Sub-Lieutenant   Posted: 2 years ago ✓ Like This Post   ( 2 )

Thanks to all of you who gave me some advice. I found out that The crystal on the transmitter was missing. It was in the box, so plug in and great joy! Tears of happiness. I bought this set years ago in Dorchester, Dorset on a trip to see my parents. I think it is a bit cheaper to buy here, but I will compare next back in the UK. Cheers, and thanks again guys, much appreciated.Hughie😎

advice transmitter crystal futaba

Futaba Attack 2ER by Hugh Sub-Lieutenant   Posted: 2 years ago ✓ Like This Post   ( 0 )

Hi Dave, No problem, I appreciate your advice. I will do as you suggest, and see how that works out. Cheers Hughie

advice futaba

Futaba Attack 2ER by Hugh Sub-Lieutenant   Posted: 2 years ago ✓ Like This Post   ( 0 )

Hi Dave Thanks for your reply. No, I didn't try the RC before the aerial got broken. Yes, I have stripped the wire and twisted them together, but haven' t soldered them as yet. I haven't put the battery plug in the servos or vice versa.I will try what you suggest and let you know how I got on. Cheers Hughie👍

servo futaba battery aerial

Futaba Attack 2ER by Hugh Sub-Lieutenant   Posted: 2 years ago ✓ Like This Post   ( 0 )

I have installed a Futaba Attack 2ER receiver plus 2 servos in my fireboat. Both lights are 'on' on the transmitter, and there is the correct voltage coming from the battery supply to the receiver. When I plug in the servo ,the servo moves a bit. However, the transmitter has no effect on the servos. I have checked and rechecked the connections. The aerial was cut, but I have joined the parts together temporarily. Can anyone give me any advice? Cheers Hughie

fireboat parts advice receiver transmitter voltage servo futaba lights battery aerial fire boat

Futaba antenna by Hugh Sub-Lieutenant   Posted: 2 years ago ✓ Like This Post   ( 1 )

Thanks Yax, I thought of doing that, but lacked confidence. Cheers, Hughie👍

futaba

Futaba antenna by Hugh Sub-Lieutenant   Posted: 2 years ago ✓ Like This Post   ( 0 )

Thanks Dave, for your advice. Will sleep soundly now. Cheers Hughie👍

advice futaba

Futaba antenna by Hugh Sub-Lieutenant   Posted: 2 years ago ✓ Like This Post   ( 0 )

I have a Futaba Attack 2ER system installed in my Fireboat. Through my own haste, stupidity, the antenna on the R122JE receiver was cut, about 1" from the receiver. I know the antenna/aerial must be kept to a specific length. Does anyone know if it is possible to join the 2 ends together, or replace the antenna? If neither of these is recommended, does anyone know where I could buy a new receiver. I have had no luck, so far, in Oz😭

fireboat receiver system futaba aerial fire boat

Clinker Potting and Crab Boat by Hugh Sub-Lieutenant   Posted: 2 years ago ✓ Like This Post   ( 1 )

Nice detail.I think the wheelhouse should be at the bow, just my preference👍

wheelhouse bow

SMIT NEDERLAND by Hugh Sub-Lieutenant   Posted: 2 years ago ✓ Like This Post   ( 1 )

Thanks for all of the detail photographs

Sea Queen built by Robert Peberdy by Hugh Sub-Lieutenant   Posted: 2 years ago ✓ Like This Post   ( 0 )

Liked your video,and the accompanying music👍

sea queen video music built

Sea Breacher by Hugh Sub-Lieutenant   Posted: 2 years ago ✓ Like This Post   ( 0 )

Thanks. I am interested in building a RC sub, but am concerned about water entering the hull.

sub hull build sea breacher

misty isle b 55 by Hugh Sub-Lieutenant   Posted: 2 years ago ✓ Like This Post   ( 0 )

Any internal photos?

misty isle b 55

glorious b 428 by Hugh Sub-Lieutenant   Posted: 2 years ago ✓ Like This Post   ( 0 )

Have you any plans for this boat? Nice job!

plans glorious b 428

Skye by Hugh Sub-Lieutenant   Posted: 2 years ago ✓ Like This Post   ( 4 )

Scratch built. Copy of Scottish fishing trawler with belt drive to propeller shaft from small electric motor

motor prop electric trawler scratch scratch propeller prop shaft built

HI From Munich by Hugh Sub-Lieutenant   Posted: 2 years ago ✓ Like This Post   ( 1 )

Like you made control line aircraft at school, and then returned to it a few years ago and joined a club. Good luck with your build.

club build aircraft

Sea Breacher by Hugh Sub-Lieutenant   Posted: 2 years ago ✓ Like This Post   ( 1 )

How do you prevent water entering the prop shaft?

prop prop shaft sea breacher

getting old by Hugh Sub-Lieutenant   Posted: 2 years ago ✓ Like This Post   ( 3 )

I agree with boaty. My models have improved and I am more persistent than when I was younger. Hugh

model

RAFCrash tender by Hugh Sub-Lieutenant   Posted: 2 years ago ✓ Like This Post   ( 10 )

Started the boat when I was eleven, now I am sixty-nine.inspired by your site and want to complete it and sail it.

crash tender sail

HI From Munich by Hugh Sub-Lieutenant   Posted: 2 years ago ✓ Like This Post   ( 1 )

I was given a RAF crash tender kit many, many years ago when I was eleven, and a boy in Yorkshire. Now live in Queensland , Australia. I think it was a too much for me, and my Dad wasn't interested, too busy........ and well not a good Dad anyway. It was left partly constructed for years and then I completed the hull and installed an ic engine. Left for more years until I saw this site. Bought a fittings kit and now my boat looks very like others on line.still haven't sailed it, as more needs to be done. I will put up some photos soon. It is interesting to see the differences in the crash tender photos from the members. I guess it reflects our personalities and our boat's histories.

Wm. Lyon Mackenzie by Hugh Sub-Lieutenant   Posted: 2 years ago ✓ Like This Post   ( 0 )

beautiful!👍