whittonm 🇨🇦 Basic
Petty Officer 2nd Class · 164 pts
Ottawa, Canada
Member since Aug 2015
Last online 5 days ago
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How to reduce roll in a warship model
Those are the best pictures I have right now in the original post but will try to take some new ones showing the hull.
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How to reduce roll in a warship model
I built an aeronaut Graf spee which is shown in a build log on this website. I am now getting it ready to run next summer. It needs ballast, which I am adding.…
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AliExpress as a Supplier
I actually enjoy getting all the spam emails from Aliexpress. They show all sorts of weird things - electronic, mechanical, spare parts, sex toys, trinkets, ho…
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AliExpress as a Supplier
I am in Canada and use them for small stuff and difficult to source pieces. Prices seem a little higher but its hard to tell because you have so many vendors s…
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Pretty Much Finished
I wired up the propulsion system and added the RC, which was easy. I am using a DSMX receiver with TX16S transmitter. There is room to do some more customizati…
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Pausing for a month due to travel
Superstructure almost done except for masts and rigging. Need to paint the hull and wire up the propulsion. Then ballast and test.
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Paint type recommendation
I live in an urban flat (apartment) and don’t have access to a location where I can spray and the wife forbids it indoors. I also can’t get a good colour match…
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Paint type recommendation
I am building an RC scale model of the pocket battleship Graf Spee (you can see my build blog on this site). I am now getting closer to finishing and have to c…
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Making progress again
- finished main deck - attached rear deck and added railings -assembled seaplane -adding guns
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Standoff Scale
Growing up in the 70s, it was popular to build "standoff scale" control line models. This was a plane that looked like the original at a distance, but had majo…
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