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Scratch built from My Hobbystore plans and Model Boat magazine, brushless motors running on 2x7.2 volt 3700 mAh batteries
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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
{"text":"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","subject":"Stealth frigate","media":[{"id":"1300561223","name":"1300561223.jpg","caption":"","url":"https://beta.model-boats.com/media/1300561223/l","thumbUrl":"https://beta.model-boats.com/media/1300561223/s","isImage":true,"ext":"jpg"},{"id":"1300561224","name":"1300561224.jpg","caption":"","url":"https://beta.model-boats.com/media/1300561224/l","thumbUrl":"https://beta.model-boats.com/media/1300561224/s","isImage":true,"ext":"jpg"},{"id":"1300561225","name":"1300561225.jpg","caption":"","url":"https://beta.model-boats.com/media/1300561225/l","thumbUrl":"https://beta.model-boats.com/media/1300561225/s","isImage":true,"ext":"jpg"},{"id":"1300561226","name":"1300561226.jpg","caption":"","url":"https://beta.model-boats.com/media/1300561226/l","thumbUrl":"https://beta.model-boats.com/media/1300561226/s","isImage":true,"ext":"jpg"}],"youtubeUrl":""}
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
my john king tug scratch built from a mmI plan .
950 motor turing 70mm prop on 12vlt power.
{"text":"my john king tug scratch built from a mmI plan .\r\n 950 motor turing 70mm prop on 12vlt power.","subject":"john king tug","media":[{"id":"1286100105","name":"1286100105.jpg","caption":"","url":"https://beta.model-boats.com/media/1286100105/l","thumbUrl":"https://beta.model-boats.com/media/1286100105/s","isImage":true,"ext":"jpg"}],"youtubeUrl":""}
my scratch built Brushless Sea Nymph run on 11.2 volts
{"text":"my scratch built Brushless Sea Nymph run on 11.2 volts","subject":"Sea Nymph","media":[],"youtubeUrl":"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7X0-wynBWv4"}
veron police boat built from old copy of plan and info on river police web site .
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free down load plan of swordsman scratch built looking for more plans Iam a new boy at 74 years old to model boat building so find your web site help full . larry
{"text":"free down load plan of swordsman scratch built looking for more plans Iam a new boy at 74 years old to model boat building so find your web site help full . larry","subject":"swordsman","media":[{"id":"1280139610","name":"1280139610.jpg","caption":"","url":"https://beta.model-boats.com/media/1280139610/l","thumbUrl":"https://beta.model-boats.com/media/1280139610/s","isImage":true,"ext":"jpg"},{"id":"1280139611","name":"1280139611.jpg","caption":"","url":"https://beta.model-boats.com/media/1280139611/l","thumbUrl":"https://beta.model-boats.com/media/1280139611/s","isImage":true,"ext":"jpg"}],"youtubeUrl":""}
free down load plan of swordsman scratch built looking for more plans Iam a new boy at 74 years old to model boat building so find your web site help full . larry
This is my second attempt at scratch building using a a grp hull. My first boat was an MTB/MGB built on a Perkasa hull as a semi-scale model. (see All things Rc - Power setups).
This time I have concentrated on keeping things lighter but it still weighs in at 2.5kg!
I have built without plans, relying on internet photos scaled etc using "Photo deluxe" and "Photo Express".
Virtually everything is built from plasticard apart from a 3mm liteply deck.
The dinghy is epoxy resin and microballoons, ths scramble nets are Lego!
Power is again courtesy of Graupner -2, Speed 600 8.4v using lh. and r.h 35mm props. Esc is one of those 50amp ones from the far east. These are far cheaper than the Viper Marine 40 used in my MGB, but slightly heavier and less sensitive at low speeds. Current drain (in the bath!) is up to 30A but this gives a superb on the water pace of an, estimated,8mph. Battery is a 4,600 mAhr NiMh.
(A true scale speed approaching 150mph plus).
I sail it on Ullswater in the Lake district and the Vosper Perkasa type hull shape is superb in the real waves that we get there, flying over the crests and taking aboard No water!
It really looks the part as my photos would show if I could learn how to load more than one! Can anybody help with this?
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This is my second attempt at scratch building using a a grp hull. My first boat was an MTB/MGB built on a Perkasa hull as a semi-scale model. (see All things Rc - Power setups).
This time I have concentrated on keeping things lighter but it still weighs in at 2.5kg!
I have built without plans, relying on internet photos scaled etc using "Photo deluxe" and "Photo Express".
Virtually everything is built from plasticard apart from a 3mm liteply deck.
The dinghy is epoxy resin and microballoons, ths scramble nets are Lego!
Power is again courtesy of Graupner -2, Speed 600 8.4v using lh. and r.h 35mm props. Esc is one of those 50amp ones from the far east. These are far cheaper than the Viper Marine 40 used in my MGB, but slightly heavier and less sensitive at low speeds. Current drain (in the bath!) is up to 30A but this gives a superb on the water pace of an, estimated,8mph. Battery is a 4,600 mAhr NiMh.
(A true scale speed approaching 150mph plus).
I sail it on Ullswater in the Lake district and the Vosper Perkasa type hull shape is superb in the real waves that we get there, flying over the crests and taking aboard No water!
It really looks the part as my photos would show if I could learn how to load more than one! Can anybody help with this?
Hi" there fellow model maker.
You have done a great job on your ASRL 😊 👍 .
I have also had problems in uploading more then one photo on this site ! I dont know why ? it used to be quick n easy but no more . 😯 Albert
Hi" there fellow model maker.
You have done a great job on your ASRL 😊 👍 .
I have also had problems in uploading more then one photo on this site ! I dont know why ? it used to be quick n easy but no more . 😯 Albert
shear water motor cruiser I made from scratch plank on frame looks well in the water with the added motor and prop give it an edge turning and coming back up the lake no ballast inside the boat its all built in the keel navagation lights work and a small table with a map for someone steering thanks russell
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shear water motor cruiser I made from scratch plank on frame looks well in the water with the added motor and prop give it an edge turning and coming back up the lake no ballast inside the boat its all built in the keel navagation lights work and a small table with a map for someone steering thanks russell
two more photos of my fire boat as I said before the crew are not right but ok all scratched built except hull payed A£35 for it the pump is from a astra car A£2 works a treat gordon very good site was told the hull is 30 odd years old
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two more photos of my fire boat as I said before the crew are not right but ok all scratched built except hull payed A£35 for it the pump is from a astra car A£2 works a treat gordon very good site was told the hull is 30 odd years old
Scratch-built paddler by Pete Smith. Model was built fom Richard Webb's MAP plans and electrically powered. Pete added a redundant IOM keel cut down to provide extra stability and the boat now performs very well having suffered the vices of most model paddle steamers. The boat is 54 1/2 ins long and 13 1/2 ins beam, plank on frame construction.
{"text":"Scratch-built paddler by Pete Smith. Model was built fom Richard Webb's MAP plans and electrically powered. Pete added a redundant IOM keel cut down to provide extra stability and the boat now performs very well having suffered the vices of most model paddle steamers. The boat is 54 1/2 ins long and 13 1/2 ins beam, plank on frame construction.","subject":"PS Bournemouth Queen","media":[],"youtubeUrl":"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZdGDdp1ybyU"}
Scratch-built paddler by Pete Smith. Model was built fom Richard Webb's MAP plans and electrically powered. Pete added a redundant IOM keel cut down to provide extra stability and the boat now performs very well having suffered the vices of most model paddle steamers. The boat is 54 1/2 ins long and 13 1/2 ins beam, plank on frame construction.
This boat was scratch built from Harold Underhill plans, available still from Brown,Son and Ferguson. The hull was mahogany on 6mm ply frames. The engine was a Caton from Maxwell Hemmens supplied bya gas-fired Cheddar Puffin boiler. The propeller was a two inch four bladed brass job from Rivabo I think. The displacement of the boat is 25lb- a bit of a lump to carry to the water but it does work well once in the water. She has now been converted to electric using a MFA geared 540 type motor witha 7.5ah lead acid gel cell. Looking again at this video I begin to wish I had left it as steam but there is something to be said for 'switch on and go'.
I started building the boat in the mid nineties and it has now had a repaint- it always been a favourite. This video was taken in the early noughties at Crealy in Exeter.
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This boat was scratch built from Harold Underhill plans, available still from Brown,Son and Ferguson. The hull was mahogany on 6mm ply frames. The engine was a Caton from Maxwell Hemmens supplied bya gas-fired Cheddar Puffin boiler. The propeller was a two inch four bladed brass job from Rivabo I think. The displacement of the boat is 25lb- a bit of a lump to carry to the water but it does work well once in the water. She has now been converted to electric using a MFA geared 540 type motor witha 7.5ah lead acid gel cell. Looking again at this video I begin to wish I had left it as steam but there is something to be said for 'switch on and go'.
I started building the boat in the mid nineties and it has now had a repaint- it always been a favourite. This video was taken in the early noughties at Crealy in Exeter.
Thames Fire Service fire boat,this has twin 540 motors,12v pumps(not working yet) and nav lights.Fibreglass hull with wood decks etc.
The model is quite old and has been a static for some time until it fell into my hands,the name Gamma on the bow.
Looks pretty much scratch built and a very good job whoever did it.
Sails occasionally at Gang Werily Fawley Hants.
This is another work in progress,hopefully we will make it to a fun-day maybe next year.
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Thames Fire Service fire boat,this has twin 540 motors,12v pumps(not working yet) and nav lights.Fibreglass hull with wood decks etc.
The model is quite old and has been a static for some time until it fell into my hands,the name Gamma on the bow.
Looks pretty much scratch built and a very good job whoever did it.
Sails occasionally at Gang Werily Fawley Hants.
This is another work in progress,hopefully we will make it to a fun-day maybe next year.
"Gamma' was a sister ship to the well known Massey Shaw fire boat the latter on which I served during the sixties. Both craft did trojan service during WW ll, Fb. Massey Shaw also took part in the Dunkirk Evacuations. Gamma was retired in the mid 50's, the company that bought her removed her pumps and converted her to a Thames Passenger Cruiser whereafter she plied between Greenwich and Westminster Piers for several years.
"Gamma' was a sister ship to the well known Massey Shaw fire boat the latter on which I served during the sixties. Both craft did trojan service during WW ll, Fb. Massey Shaw also took part in the Dunkirk Evacuations. Gamma was retired in the mid 50's, the company that bought her removed her pumps and converted her to a Thames Passenger Cruiser whereafter she plied between Greenwich and Westminster Piers for several years.
WOW! BRAVO ZULU! That's really cool that you gave her life. I have built static kits most of my life, but in 89, I built my 1st RC USCG MLB. I still love statics, but watching a boat (or plane) that I've built, actually perform like the actual craft is wonderful.
WOW! BRAVO ZULU! That's really cool that you gave her life. I have built static kits most of my life, but in 89, I built my 1st RC USCG MLB. I still love statics, but watching a boat (or plane) that I've built, actually perform like the actual craft is wonderful.
Do you still have yours?