zooma
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Vice Admiral · 7,665 pts
Rossendale, United Kingdom
Member since Sep 2020
Last online 7 days ago
Age 76
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Been making r/c model power boats since the 1960's - and riding off road bicycles even longer!
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Never too old to learn
zooma’s harbour
8 boatsVic Smeed REMORA
I built my first REMORA from the free plans that came with my December 1964 Model Maker magazine. That firs…
Sea Commander from a pair of old cabin sides
A friend (mad Welshman) sent me some plywood shapes that he hoped were from a LesRo Stiletto so that I coul…
Chris Craft Corvette
I rescued this badly damaged fuel soaked rotten wreck from the skip at the start of lockdown. If it were no…
Thunder Tiger AVANTI
This ARTR model has kept me “active” at the lake when my restoration and rebuild projects have not been rea…
LesRo Javelin p
This is an ex eBay purchase that I have restored to the level shown here. It is a bit “red” at the moment, …
Aerokits Patrol Launch
When we got married and moved to live in Exmouth in 1971, our first “winter letting” was just a few yards a…
TID Tug
My first scratch built model was a TID Tug. I made the main superstructure from plastic card grafted onto a…
LESRO Rapier
Here is my Lesro Rapier that was built in the 1960's by its original owner and was recovered (by myself) fr…
zooma’s build blogs
11 blogsRapier1. When the first lock-down came along I dug out a couple of old wrecks that had been thrown away and had been saved from a skip so…
Back in the 1960's when I made my first Classic Model Power Boat kit (an Aerokits Swordsman) almost everyone that ran model power boats c…
The original shape LesRo Sportsman is a model that had eluded me for many years, but I always liked the look of it, so when one came up o…
I was given this Storm Glass for my 76th birthday last month, and to be honest , I am not too sure what to make of it? This storm glass c…
Classic Model Power Boats is a title that I have used for many years to describe the group of model boats that most interest me and that …
I have managed to acquire this model boat from a friend. The pictures that I will include as I work my way through it suggest to me (wish…