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    ๐Ÿ“ Model boating in 1958
    2 hours ago by ๐Ÿ‡ฌ๐Ÿ‡ง neilw ( Sub-Lieutenant)
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    My wife was watching this video and pointed out the clip of model boats in 1958 at Herne Bay. Some interesting footage at 16:56



    https://screenarchive.brighton.ac.uk/detail/11697/
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    ๐Ÿ“ Wordle of the Day?
    1 day ago by ๐Ÿ‡ฌ๐Ÿ‡ง neilw ( Sub-Lieutenant)
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    Thought I had it on 2 with CARLIN.

    ๐Ÿ’ฌ Re: Aerokits Patrol Launch
    4 days ago by ๐Ÿ‡ฌ๐Ÿ‡ง neilw ( Sub-Lieutenant)
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    Lovely, I picked one up a couple of weeks ago, another winter project!

    ๐Ÿ“ Twin motors
    6 days ago by ๐Ÿ‡ฌ๐Ÿ‡ง neilw ( Sub-Lieutenant)
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    I have a couple of these, just fitted one into my BYMS, works as it should.



    https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/194316283096
    ๐Ÿ“ Yet another FB Marketplace purchase
    10 days ago by ๐Ÿ‡ฌ๐Ÿ‡ง neilw ( Sub-Lieutenant)
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    luckyduck, I canโ€™t pass a charity shop without popping in. Always have a rummage, as does my wife. It is a numbers thing, we reckon 1 in 20 to strike lucky - the down side is we have 2000+ books and more pond yachts than Iโ€™ll ever use.

    As for FB Marketplace I have several search terms and leave the FB algorithm to do its thing.

    I have noticed that pond yachts and r/c boats that need work or restoration donโ€™t sell on FB. The Marblehead was listed for ยฃ180 - probably a bit ambitious but a fair price if no work was needed, I bought it for ยฃ50 as no one was interested. It just needs some cosmetic work but could be sailed now.

    ๐Ÿ“ Yet another FB Marketplace purchase
    10 days ago by ๐Ÿ‡ฌ๐Ÿ‡ง neilw ( Sub-Lieutenant)
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    Currently on holiday in Norfolk, have brought a boat with me - my DF65, had a lovely sail at Sheringham today.

    Did however have a side trip to Great Yarmouth were Iโ€™d spotted an old Marblehead on Marketplace, so came on holiday with one boat, going home with three as also found a pond yacht in a charity shop.

    Does anyone recognise the design of the Marblehead?

    ๐Ÿ’ฌ Re: Travelling case
    18 days ago by ๐Ÿ‡ฌ๐Ÿ‡ง neilw ( Sub-Lieutenant)
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    Am planning to do the same for the BYMS, especially after seeing your pics

    ๐Ÿ“ Facebook Marketplace strikes again
    20 days ago by ๐Ÿ‡ฌ๐Ÿ‡ง neilw ( Sub-Lieutenant)
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    Went to look at two boats today, came back with three.

    I have a collection of Bowman pond yachts and this and this 20โ€ version will slot in nicely between the 19โ€ and 24โ€ models. Needs some tidying up and new sails.

    The black hull looks to be an Aerokits Fast Patrol launch, needs some cosmetic work, new rudder and Iโ€™ll sort a new motor etc. one for the project shelf.

    Paid for these two and left, had a call from the seller about 10 minutes later, heโ€™d found another one in a box so I drove back and picked up a Star Endeavour II / Mk2. As I also have a collection of Stars but didnโ€™t have this one I ended up buying 3 boats. The Star needs some cosmetic work, but is complete.

    Going to need a bigger project shelf.

    ๐Ÿ’ฌ Re: Planking
    21 days ago by ๐Ÿ‡ฌ๐Ÿ‡ง neilw ( Sub-Lieutenant)
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    If you have a steam wall paper stripper and some tube you can make up a steamer. Thereโ€™s a video of mine in the link below, for the thickness youโ€™d be using it wouldnโ€™t take long in steam.





    http://www.pegasus18.com/zenith/2020/01/29/how-to-fit-a-new-rib/
    ๐Ÿ’ฌ Re: First trials
    23 days ago by ๐Ÿ‡ฌ๐Ÿ‡ง neilw ( Sub-Lieutenant)
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    Bill, it is indeed Canon Teign Falls. Nice and quiet now the kids have gone back to school!

    ๐Ÿ“ First trials
    23 days ago by ๐Ÿ‡ฌ๐Ÿ‡ง neilw ( Sub-Lieutenant)
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    I wanted to test the effectiveness of the rudders and ESC while seeing how much ballasting would be required so I took the hull to the lake today. My father and I use Fridays as a testing day as the lake is usually quiet so we can make lots of mistakes without an audience. The other boat you can see in the video is his tug project, now successfully ballasted.

    Have to say I was very pleased with the manoeuvrability of the boat, was thinking I might need to fit a mixer for the steering but she turns nicely just using the the rudders as they are so i wont bother with a mixer.

    She need ballasting towards the bow, but there's enough buoyancy to cope with the superstructure and fittings. Very impressed with the lack of wash, I'm using a 3S with twin 365 motors rated at 6V-15V. Think it will only need a 2S as I was using very little throttle.



    https://youtube.com/shorts/40OAEt0rVf4?si=htEw7h4QbtVWDgvh
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    ๐Ÿ“ New project
    24 days ago by ๐Ÿ‡ฌ๐Ÿ‡ง neilw ( Sub-Lieutenant)
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    Couldnโ€™t leave this when spotted in a charity shop for ยฃ1.50.

    Think this will be a winter project, challenge is to only use bits and pieces I have in the boxes that have the stuff that โ€˜might come in handy one dayโ€™. Have a waterjet that came with the RTTL project a few months ago ๐Ÿ˜Š

    ๐Ÿ’ฌ Re: RAF crash tender refurb
    26 days ago by ๐Ÿ‡ฌ๐Ÿ‡ง neilw ( Sub-Lieutenant)
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    Excellent, good to see another one being sorted out.

    ๐Ÿ“ The first cut is the deepest
    30 days ago by ๐Ÿ‡ฌ๐Ÿ‡ง neilw ( Sub-Lieutenant)
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    Decided to tackle the part of the build that I wasn't looking forward to. I'd made the decision to extend the topsides to close to the transom, however before thinking of extending the topsides I'd have to cut the scuppers. The article by Brian Peach in the May 1996 edition of Marine Modelling suggests, as they are marked on the moulding, to drill a series of holes and complete with a file.

    I made the decision to move the topsides completely with the plan to replace them with new topsides that extend to the transom (I'll use the old ones as a template to get the correct sheerline). The topsides will be attached to the deck by about 40 triangular bracing pieces - see the pics of the plans.

    I invested in some Dremel EZ Speedclic Cutting wheels, put on the appropriate safety gear and had both topsides removed in about a minute - very impressed with the Speedclic discs. I'm glad I took this approach as the moulding of the topsides was of varying thickness so when the supports would have been added they would not have been in a straight line without having to do a lot of fairing to get the topsides to uniform thickness. I'll be using 1.5mm ply for the replacement topsides.

    With the topsides removed I took the opportunity to get some paint on the hull, black under the waterline and I found that Hycote produce a Polar Grey for Ford cars, this is the shade of grey I was looking for.

    The paint is too glossy at the moment but I'll flatten it back later.

    I've made a start on the internal fit out. Rudders and motors are installed and tested, and I've trimmed the transom to the correct shape. With those large scuppers it made sense to get the correct deck camber so flush deck beams were fitted with thin balsa laminated to the beams and the desired camber filed and sanded into the correct shape.

    I've made a temporary deck to check the camber and to work out the position of the various openings.

    Will be leaving the hull alone for the while as the next part of the build is to make up the LL Sweep Reel and Four Drum Sweep Winch using the items bought from Sirmar

    ๐Ÿ“ Mystery object of the day.
    30 days ago by ๐Ÿ‡ฌ๐Ÿ‡ง neilw ( Sub-Lieutenant)
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    Have been sorting through the pile of fittings I bought and I have 14 brass tubes (with a hole in the side) with a pair of clear plastic discs for each tube.

    Tubes are 15mm long and 12mm diameter. Any thoughts on what they might be for?

    ๐Ÿ“ FB Marketplace bites again
    1 month ago by ๐Ÿ‡ฌ๐Ÿ‡ง neilw ( Sub-Lieutenant)
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    Day 2. Doing a rough sort of some of the loose contents, most of these were all mixed up in a bag together. Finds include another 8 brass props, loads of shipsโ€™ wheels and large pile of Billings stanchions. Also opened the cardboard folders to find a lifetimes supply of styrene sheet. Have had to send my wife out for more small storage drawers.

    ๐Ÿ“ FB Marketplace bites again
    1 month ago by ๐Ÿ‡ฌ๐Ÿ‡ง neilw ( Sub-Lieutenant)
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    I suspect the warship guns are by Aeronaut as part of their 1:200 series

    ๐Ÿ“ FB Marketplace bites again
    1 month ago by ๐Ÿ‡ฌ๐Ÿ‡ง neilw ( Sub-Lieutenant)
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    Give me a couple of weeks and Iโ€™ll sort out the list of items Iโ€™ll be moving on. If it doesnโ€™t break site rules Iโ€™ll advertise them first here before I list on eBay with a suitable donation to the site costs.

    Just found a large cache of Billings fittings as well, nearly to the bottom. Think a beer is required before I work out what Iโ€™ll do with 50+ brushed motors.

    ๐Ÿ“ FB Marketplace bites again
    1 month ago by ๐Ÿ‡ฌ๐Ÿ‡ง neilw ( Sub-Lieutenant)
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    Once I have worked out what I have Iโ€™ll be selling some of it, just found a load of aero-naut fittings in box.

    ๐Ÿ“ FB Marketplace bites again
    1 month ago by ๐Ÿ‡ฌ๐Ÿ‡ง neilw ( Sub-Lieutenant)
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    Took a punt on a job lot of model stuff on Marketplace, seller said he was giving up modelling and he had the remnants of a model shop. Saw there was a huge pile of BECC letters and flags that I needed. Also came with 50 electric motors, 30+ props and packets and packets of fittings. Just unpacked about 10%. Now have the national collection of scale lifeboats - about 50 plus a load of Italian kits. Opened another bag and thereโ€™s a load of scale warship fittings. Think itโ€™s going to take days to catalogue it all. Thereโ€™s a bag of scale figures that look nice, about 20 servos and bags Iโ€™ve yet to open. 30kg of model boat fittings.

    Pics show a fraction of the contents.

    ๐Ÿ“ Filler
    1 month ago by ๐Ÿ‡ฌ๐Ÿ‡ง neilw ( Sub-Lieutenant)
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    Have found that the Techniq Platinum Light Filler is great to work with. Found that P38 is too heavy, the Light filler is a delight to sand.

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    ๐Ÿ“ Camera Boat
    1 month ago by ๐Ÿ‡ฌ๐Ÿ‡ง neilw ( Sub-Lieutenant)
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    Take one ยฃ10 boat from Facebook Marketplace, a spare GoPro surf mount, a waterproof 4k GoPro copy and you have a fun camera boat. Planning to park it in the middle of the clubโ€™s lake and get some boat height video of mine and otherโ€™s boats.

    Just need to remember to fit a tether to the camera in case the mount fails.

    This Batboat flies along and is usually very stable in the turns, wondering how stability will be impacted by the addition of the camera, only one way to find out ๐Ÿ˜ Donโ€™t think it will keep up with my Dadโ€™s hydroplane!

    ๐Ÿ’ฌ Re: Success
    1 month ago by ๐Ÿ‡ฌ๐Ÿ‡ง neilw ( Sub-Lieutenant)
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    Bill, I made the mistake of using the term GoPro when I should have said Faux Pro, a few years ago I spent a lot of money going down the GoPro route as we were doing endurance 4x4 events and I was doing some serious dinghy racing in the Finn Class.

    Had some decent results but the GoPro stuff was expensive. Changed to GoPro copies as cheaper if I lost or broke them also got fed up with GoPro pricing.

    Found the 4k Akosa were very robust, waterproof and if I destroyed one it wouldnโ€™t be the end of the world.

    Have fitted these to paddle boards, racing dinghies and Land Rovers, have yet to break one!

    This is what Iโ€™ll mount one one of my boats


    https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B01HPXH29Q/
    ๐Ÿ’ฌ Re: Success
    1 month ago by ๐Ÿ‡ฌ๐Ÿ‡ง neilw ( Sub-Lieutenant)
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    Planning to fit a GoPro to one of my plastic boats as an attempt to get some decent video as itโ€™s impossible to steer the boats at speed whilst taking video.

    ๐Ÿ“ Success
    1 month ago by ๐Ÿ‡ฌ๐Ÿ‡ง neilw ( Sub-Lieutenant)
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    Got both the RAF RTTL and the Crash Tender out today at the club open day. Should have some video later in the week.

    ๐Ÿ’ฌ Re: Finished (hopefully)
    1 month ago by ๐Ÿ‡ฌ๐Ÿ‡ง neilw ( Sub-Lieutenant)
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    The hull behind is a Sirmar BYMS

    ๐Ÿ“ Finished (hopefully)
    1 month ago by ๐Ÿ‡ฌ๐Ÿ‡ง neilw ( Sub-Lieutenant)
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    This one was mainly completed a couple of weeks ago, finally got the last few fittings on today ahead of my clubโ€™s open day tomorrow. Hopefully Iโ€™ll get some decent pictures/video of her on the water.

    She has been out a couple of times, the first time was OK but the battery was too far forwards and was sailing bow down. I repositioned the battery, ESC and pumps and took her out last week, and she flew.

    She still needs a little adjustment of the waterline but Iโ€™m quite happy with her now.

    ๐Ÿ“ Wordle of the Day?
    1 month ago by ๐Ÿ‡ฌ๐Ÿ‡ง neilw ( Sub-Lieutenant)
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    Thatโ€™s a first, got it in one. Off to buy a lottery ticket to see if the luck holds.

    ๐Ÿ“ ESC and Rx Burning out, advice please.
    2 months ago by ๐Ÿ‡ฌ๐Ÿ‡ง neilw ( Sub-Lieutenant)
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    Hi Doug

    That cable was just a quick solution to let me connect the ESC to the battery without repeating yesterdayโ€™s fiasco while I sort out a fused link. After writing off about ยฃ60 of kit Iโ€™m just being ultra careful.

    ๐Ÿ“ ESC and Rx Burning out, advice please.
    2 months ago by ๐Ÿ‡ฌ๐Ÿ‡ง neilw ( Sub-Lieutenant)
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    Removed some of the cover - photo should show the melted component with some blackening to the circuit board.

    Made a cable switch this afternoon, should prevent me from doing it again!



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