reilly4
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Avondale Heights VIC 3034, Australia
Member since Aug 2015
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3 boats(Submarine) U-181
This is an Engel kit, but heavily modified. The deck was replaced with 2mm polycarbonate and slots cut with…
(Naval Ship) MTB741 Fairmile D
1/24 Scale. Scratchbuilt from John Lambert Drgs & photos. it took 3.5 years. Plywood bulkheads, pine string…
(Naval Ship) HS Simitzopoulos
La Combattante IIIB Class Guided Missile boat of the Hellenic Navy. it has two brushless motor systems (eac…
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Long Range Air Sea Rescue
A short video to celebrate sailing 3 x 1/24 scale Fairmile D's as well as a Vosper 73' Type 1 at the same time. Graham's boats are scratch-built onto fibreglas…
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Receiver Controlled switch
I use the Battleswitch for up to 10 Amp https://www.dimensionengineering.com/products/battleswitch and there is also the smaller Picoswitch https://www.dimensi…
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Re: British Power Boat Co. Type Two 63' HSL - ASRL 131
I thought it the most appropriate music for this RAF boat at speed. I too loved that film from the first time my Mum took me to see it at the Savoy cinema in C…
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British Power Boat Co. Type Two 63' HSL - ASRL 131
This 'Whaleback' boat is a 1/16th scale Air Sea Rescue Launch that was built by a friend of mine Graham. It is powered by a Turnigy brushless motor and Lipo Ba…
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Brushless motors
I have both Brushed and Brushless motors in my patrol boats and MTBs. I was somewhat misled by the catalogues quoting large Amp ratings and power outputs of th…
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U-181 and HMS Bluebell confrontation in WW2
A Type IX DX2 U-boat on a long range patrol runs into a Flower class corvette and is up for the fight. Best viewed on the full screen.
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Re: (Naval Ship) MTB741 Fairmile D
Hi Martin, Thanks for the compliments. Much appreciated. I am not one that does build blogs as such, but will post photos of the AHTS when there are some reaso…
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Re: (Naval Ship) MTB741 Fairmile D
Hi Martin, My newest 3 models are the ones I recently put up some photos. I am also building an anchor handling tug supplier - an AHTS200 from Damen shipyards.…
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Re: Hellenic Navy - La Combattante IIIb class Fast Attack Craft
It is powered by 2 720kV brushless motors. You can find details about the boat in my Boat Harbour including photos of the internals.
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Re: Hellenic Navy - La Combattante IIIb class Fast Attack Craft
When I get some time I will send you details of the strobe circuit and you can advise me on the right size resistor. I already managed to get 4 LEDS working of…
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