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📝 cruiser
12 years ago by 🇬🇧 vaderswar (
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built this cruiser, has twin 850 brushed motors, goes well on the water
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💬 billings boat polar trawler
13 years ago by 🇬🇧 vaderswar ( Leading Seaman)
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thanks basher, sails really well, unfortunately have been Ill health reitired, cant say too much about company as have had gagging order on me, think you get the picture
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📝 Esc for twin 700 motors
13 years ago by 🇬🇧 vaderswar ( Leading Seaman)
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Have used nimh and 12v gel ok, took nimh upto 16.8 two packs ok
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📝 Esc for twin 700 motors
13 years ago by 🇬🇧 vaderswar ( Leading Seaman)
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I should watch out with using lipos with the sea sprint esc as had two blow up and hobbystores had to replace them. they were being sold cheap as printed material said that you could use lipos but the power does them in after a little while. regards steve
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💬 flowerdown corvette
13 years ago by 🇬🇧 vaderswar ( Leading Seaman)
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hI grandadave, if you are talking about the prop going forwards and backwards, then it is the speed controller that handles that. I just put a mtroniks 15amp esc in it and that handles the forwards and backwards no problem. After that it is sorting out the transmitter or just get a cheapy car one off ebay as they have forwards and backwards on them. regards steve
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💬 flowerdown corvette
13 years ago by 🇬🇧 vaderswar ( Leading Seaman)
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I have only got a 380 brushed motor in it and that is more than plenty
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💬 flowerdown corvette
13 years ago by 🇬🇧 vaderswar ( Leading Seaman)
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hI used 30mm 3 bladed brass prop, dont need anything powerful as will be to fast for scale. regards steve
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💬 b10 naval
13 years ago by 🇬🇧 vaderswar ( Leading Seaman)
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its a vosper 100ft patrol boat called HMTS Courland Bay. regards steve
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📝 flowerdown corvette
13 years ago by 🇬🇧 vaderswar ( Leading Seaman)
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Got this one off ebay, had to use a little artistic licence with the paint scheme as club has several members with same scheme, so didnt want to look the same. The one thing I could not get over was how many parts were left over from the revell kit. Have a 380 motor in it with a msoniks 15 amp esc, could not get over how much ballast was needed to get her to sit in water true, but got there in the end. Now working on making homemade smoke generator to go in funnel, first tests great using nichrome wire and 6v battery, just have to make housing to go in funnel. Have tested parker black ink mixed in smoker fluid and effect looks fantastic.
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💬 billings boat polar trawler
14 years ago by 🇬🇧 vaderswar ( Leading Seaman)
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Dear Graham, I think they are lovely boats, I don't know if you had to tinker around with ballast like I did cause of being so top heavy, even with a 6v sla battery in it. I took out the original m3 propshafts and put in m4 and far more robust. regards steve
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💬 Another mystery model
14 years ago by 🇬🇧 vaderswar ( Leading Seaman)
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HI there if I am correct it looks like a maycraft mercury and made between the 50s and late 60s. regards steve
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💬 Queen Mary 2
14 years ago by 🇬🇧 vaderswar ( Leading Seaman)
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Dear Brian, The guy whose build blog I followed somewhat had 4 attempts at the bow thrusters through one problem or another, so I decided not to get the bow thruster to work. The one thing to scale that I have working is the pods and have little motors in them which I am really pleased with. One good idea I came up with which is being copied at boat club is a magnetic detachable keel, so I can still use it for display. I just simply hot glued two small industrial strength strip magnets inside hull and then the keel which is a length of copper tube with two uprights soldered to two steel squares and it just simply attaches under neath and it works lovely. I will get around to getting it videoed but am recovering from having part of spine removed and have about forty or so bits still to put on , handrails etc and 100 scale passengers to put on. I live in southampton and quite often see the qm2 and other ships come in and out of town which is great to see, God are they tall. regards steve
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📝 Queen Mary 2
14 years ago by 🇬🇧 vaderswar ( Leading Seaman)
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In the process of converting a revell 1/400 version of the Queen Mary2 into a working r/c model using pager motors in the pods instead of using propshafts to keep it as authentic as possible. Have put gearing in to turn pods so dont have to have a rudder. So far all tests have been successful and will shortly have all detailing done and have ballast sorted ready for test runs.
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💬 billings boat polar trawler
14 years ago by 🇬🇧 vaderswar ( Leading Seaman)
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HI Dave its an old billings boat that came out over twenty years ago that I won on ebay last june, I believe they stopped making it some 10 years ago. if I remember correctly it is called the Nordkap No 584. The ship has no modifications to it just had to replace a lot of the kit ply as it was delaminating and use the ply as templates on plasticard. She went out on water yesterday and performed really well, just a bit of tinkering here and there. regards steve
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📝 Solent Radio Control Model Boat Club
14 years ago by 🇬🇧 vaderswar ( Leading Seaman)
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📝 Graupner Jet star refit
14 years ago by 🇬🇧 vaderswar ( Leading Seaman)
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Finally finshed my jet star after buying her off ebay she was full of expanding foam and allsorts of other rubbish, but managed to get it all out and refit jet drives and motors etc
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📝 billings boat polar trawler
14 years ago by 🇬🇧 vaderswar ( Leading Seaman)
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whilst being off work with cancer have spent three months building my polar trawler which I had to remake a lot of superstructure with plasticard due to the old ply delaminated. it has twin screws powered by two 400 motors and 40 amp esc and 6v sla. I think she looks quite good
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💬 Waveney Class Lifeboat
14 years ago by 🇬🇧 vaderswar ( Leading Seaman)
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HI Dave, Sorry for delay in replying, taking boat out on water for trials today will let you know how got on. As to changing to brushless, good idea I use brushless in a lot of my models, but if you have MTroniks escs you can use a lipo upto 3series (11.1v), they say this on their own website, so you could still use same motors with 7.4v lipo but change the esc. the only downside to using lipos is having to add more ballast to get waterline which is what going to find out today. Regards Steve
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📝 Waveney Class Lifeboat
14 years ago by 🇬🇧 vaderswar ( Leading Seaman)
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Here is my restoration (conversion) of a US Coastguard vessel into the RNLI Waveney Class Lifeboat. I think you will agree that it looks better in its new livery. Have put in two jp power 400 motors along with mtroniks auto tune 20 amp esc and am using 7.4V lipo batteries. First try out went very well, but that was the bath, will try her out on water in couple of days
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💬 fireboat 94
14 years ago by 🇬🇧 vaderswar ( Leading Seaman)
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believe it or not the paint on deck is floor/tile paint got from local discount store as well as white japlac got for ÂA£1, black and red are humbrol paints.
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📝 fireboat 94
14 years ago by 🇬🇧 vaderswar ( Leading Seaman)
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Took my work in progress fireboat out for first run last sunday, just a few bits to do especially getting water pump to work. its a boat that used to belong to Bob Jones, I got it of ebay and stripped her down as last person put flashing tape on inside intsead of finding leaks, but she is going now.
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📝 Donations - Why so little??
15 years ago by 🇬🇧 vaderswar ( Leading Seaman)
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How hard can it be to donate, everyone wants to show off their boats etc, this doesn't come free. I quite agree the amount of a packet of cigs, one less ciggy living longer and keeping this website alive.
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📝 My Torpedo Boat
15 years ago by 🇬🇧 vaderswar ( Leading Seaman)
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Here is my take on a torpedo boat, YES I know why has it got a rocket launcher on rear, well I wanted something that was different from the rest with my own signature on it. it is powered by a .60 size electric motor 120amp esc, two 5000 3 series lipos. Only allowed to have it going on 1/4 power cause of speeed limit on lake. The hull was originally a 48" deep vee hull but added perkasa superstructure to it.
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📝 Stealth frigate
15 years ago by 🇬🇧 vaderswar ( Leading Seaman)
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Here are my latest pics of a trimar frigate that I am building. it is totally scratch built with twim screws powered by two 540 motors and twim escs. The radar antenna, nav lights and turret all turn and work
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