Thanks Ross, size L for me, ahahahahah.

Thinking you're not very smart??

Join the club, we've got jackets!!😉

Hey Jbkiwi, you did a great and difficult job, congratulations.
Maybe you could make a paper model RC too. I wouldn't even try.

Anyway, I'm glad that no one noticed, at first glance, that that perfectly made model was made of paper.
I only realized it after looking at it carefully because I knew it. Well, I console myself, I was thinking I wasn't very smart.

Wooden carved hulls can work if you do a lot of chiseling. I made this R/C one from a driftwood beam I found on a walk round a peninsular I lived near around 1975. Beam was 12"x12"x 4ft. -ended up around 3ftx 10". Fitted with a 500 brushed motor running on a small 6v motorbike battery and using an OS Cougar 2ch radio. Cabin was 3mm marine ply. Sailed really realistically with just the right amount of roll. Took a LOT of grinding, chiseling and sanding and blisters, as it was something like Oregon and was well 'seasoned' after being in the sea for a long time.

The next tug built around 1979 was the complete opposite, made from a polystyrene block and fiberglassed. Around 40' x 12"

JB

Well on you Doug!

YES!!!

Great Doug!
EXCELLENT!


This is the SMS GOETZEN, a German armed merchant ship from 1915 (precisely a Q boat).
The paper kit is from GPM.

They really impress me.
You can't tell at first glance that they are made of paper.

The other possibility is a 'Card Model'!
There are some wonderful exponents of this art out there.
Of course it might be possible to RC some special functions as a 'dry dock' model, but I wouldn't want to put it in the water😮🤔
Cheers All, Doug😎

Think about it: besides a solid hull naval model, which naval model cannot be transformed into RC (or in any case is very difficult to do so)?

Hello to all naval modelers on this forum.

I was going to give you the solution but given Doug and Chum444's answers, I decided not to, because you're getting close.
You are on the right track.

You are exceptional, you gave a logical and correct answer.
This is not the case however.
It's not a solid carved hull (actually I wouldn't even try to make it RC) but something else.

Congratulations again to everyone (even those who only read but don't write) for not taking the shortcut by doing research on the Web.

I totally agree with RNinMunich’s post but would make a slight addition; one with a solid “machine” carved hull.
I once tried to turn an antique hand-carved hollow hull into RC. Got all the running gear in place & installed ballast to waterline. First turn on maiden voyage it heeled over & would not right itself. Would have sunk were I not right there to grab it.
Added a LOT more ballast & put it the test tank. When heeled over it simply could not right itself. Now lives on a shelf as a display model.

Returning to the original challenge posed RN is right; a solid hull would be extremely difficult to convert to RC.

One with a solid carved hull!

😎

What kind of static ship model cannot be transformed (or is very difficult to do so) into a dynamic RC model?

The forward firing gun has a lot of issues with the field of fire. There is a lot of the ship that blocks the forward gun

Good evening everyone.

AustinG, Olly999, RedCatcher, GaryLC, and DGoss999, congratulations indeed.

I admire you because some of you have argued with great astuteness on details that I had not even noticed.
But above all all of you are truly honest, because a 5 second search on the internet would have been enough to find the answer.
I tell you this because I tried and I did it.

Before telling you the answer, I tell you that this model would hardly have been chosen by a member of this forum. In this forum the presence of dynamic RC modelers prevails rather than static naval modelers.
This model is very difficult to transform into RC.
This is the clue.

Larger photo would aid in reviewing layout but offhand would guess air intakes facing forward are wrong and life boat David's need further spacing to allow boats be launched.
Austing

Nice model. Obviously armed, but of noticable relatively shallow draft for the size. Is she actually a "Q" boat?

While I'm just a beginner, your question about lifeboats raises the question if the boats in these photos could be put in the water. Are the davits facing the wrong way? Also, separately, where the driver? I see a bridge but no provisions for the operators. Isn't it normal to have a operating position? Redcatcher

Everything, the sheer complexity of the components, and the ability to assemble them correctly. Not forgetting the ability to control it in the air, and take it home in the same condition which it arrived in at the air field. ( One piece, as opposed to several. )

Its not an Airfix model??