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lindemann06

Chief Petty Officer 2nd Class 1 month ago

Hood meets Bismarck

1:144 Bismarck Meets 1:144 Hood

Two scratch-built model warships meet at the San Diego Model Yacht Pond.

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Bob the boilermanRecruit1 month ago
If they were 100 yards apart, that would roughly represent the range at their final encounter
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lindemann06

Chief Petty Officer 2nd Class 1 month ago

1:144 Bismarck

Scratch-built model warship at the San Diego Model Yacht Pond.

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ColRaySub-Lieutenant1 month ago
Looks like I have a problem this post keeps on loading I have a many copies of the same topic Col
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lindemann06

Chief Petty Officer 2nd Class 1 month ago

1:144 Bismarck

Scratch-built model warship at the San Diego Model Yacht Pond.

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reilly4

Warrant Officer 4 years ago

Long Range Air Sea Rescue

A short video to celebrate sailing 3 x 1/24 scale Fairmile D's as well as a Vosper 73' Type 1 at the same time.
Graham's boats are scratch-built onto fibreglass hulls.
My boats are totally scratch-built.
it is best viewed on a larger screen in HD.

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ToraDogCommodore4 years ago
Absolutely wondrful! Top notch job all around. What a incredible pleasure to watch.
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StephenSRecruit4 years ago
Brilliant. Best war film I've seen in years.
My mtb's of mtb 389. Built 40 odd years ago and left in the loft where it collected dust and soot. When I retired I brought it down, fitted a Graupner 700 motor in and ran it on 14.4v. It plains very realistic. Thanks for the video...👍
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EricMB

Chief Petty Officer 1st Class 6 years ago

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Atlantic 85 1/12 scale scratch-built

More work on the little boat today #lockdownfun

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Martin555Fleet Admiral6 years ago
Hi Eric.

Looking good.
I would be interested to see more photos of this Lifeboat and its crew.

Martin555.
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reilly4

Warrant Officer 8 years ago

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Hellenic Navy - La Combattante IIIb class Fast Attack Craft

More great photos in this series taken by my friend at Albert Park Lake in Melbourne. These of my P28 - Ensign Simitzopoulos. Great wave patterns. These photos were all poster size in detail. I have had to shrink them to get them posted here. This boat is in my harbour.

The 1/35 scale boat is scratch-built, mainly from Balsawood and marine ply with a fibreglass covering. The guns can elevate and rotate. The radar units both rotate and there are LED navigation lights that I forgot to turn on. There is also a flashing red LED strobe warning system. It needs a little work to get the 4 LEDs a bright brighter.

#boat #guns #LED strobe warning system #LEDs

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RNinMunichFleet Admiral8 years ago
Okey dokey, look forward to the circuit detail👍
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EscrichPetty Officer 2nd Class7 years ago
Please explain me the complete problem and I'll try to help you as much as possible.

Regards:
JMEC
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reilly4

Warrant Officer 8 years ago

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Z-39 German WW2 Destroyer

My scratch-built 1/72 scale Type 1936A (mob) destroyer, photographed by a good friend at Albert Park lake in Melbourne.
It has rotating turrets linked to the gun directors and rotating torpedo tubes, the front 6" guns elevate and there is also a ship's horn.

#guns

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RookysailorRear Admiral8 years ago
Good way of revolving the turret Doug, but I've
taken the easy way by using a servomorph from
Action electronics😀https://www.componentshop.co.uk/p96-servomorph.html
using a couple on my 1/96 USS Kidd destroyer, will post when finished.

Peter😎
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RNinMunichFleet Admiral8 years ago
Hi Rooky,
Bit late getting back to you on this - bin kinda busy🤔
I hear where you're coming from (as our colonial brothers might say. Sorry Ed 😉)
Back then there wern't no Action Electronics / Component Shop so I just did what seemed logical! Worst (and smelly😝) part was making the circuit board.
No PC, CAD or even photo-reactive circuit board back then.

Yep, I know the Servomorph. I've bought one to experiment with on a Plastic Magic project.
To drive the gun turrets on a 1/350 King George V battleship, where there ain't enough room (never mind weight margin) to mess about with cogs and pulleys.
I'm thinking two micro servos, Y lead, or even independent AB and XY turrets.
My German Turnigy re-brand has two pots that I can assign to these!

Many thanks to Colin-H for sending me the KGV kit in a wonderful package of 'stuff' as recompense for renovating and converting his Taycol Supermarine motor.
Was like Christmas all over again 😊
Cheers, Doug 😎
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Krampus

Warrant Officer 8 years ago

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Electric Barbarella

Ahoy Maties! it's been a long time since my last posting. Happy 2019! I just completed my new scratch-built boat "Electric Barbarella". I tried to recreate (with some liberties) one of my favorite boats of all time, the 30-footer Chris Craft Sportsman built during the 1970s. it measures 24 X 8.5 inches. it is powered with a 9.6 NiMH 4200 mAh battery "nunchuck" pack (like the one used for paintball guns), brushless motor attached to a 30A Mtroniks Hydra controller and a 30mm M4 3-bladed brass propeller. The hull (my own on-the-go design) was made out of Balsa wood which later I fiberglassed. For the superstructure I utilized 2mm ABS plastic sheet material. To my surprise the boat turned to be a very stable and forgiving platform. I really feel a very close connection to this vessel as it is my first own hull design.😁

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PeejaySub-Lieutenant8 years ago
She's a beauty!!! (And I am not talking about only the lady in the cockpit!)

I grew up a block away from the river, and there were a lot of pleasure craft in the area. Most of them were pre-70's as I left before then.
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KrampusWarrant Officer8 years ago
Thank you, Peejay!😁
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reilly4

Warrant Officer 9 years ago

Higgins PT Boat

This Higgins PT boat was built and sailed by a good friend of mine. it is scratch-built. it uses a single Turnigy 3639 1100kV brushless motor and LiPo battery. it is pretty new and has not had its number painted on as yet. its performance is excellent.

#paint #motor #turnigy #lipo #scratch-pt boat #scratch scratch #brushless motor #brush #sail #brushless #battery #built

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RNinMunichFleet Admiral9 years ago
'Hail to the Chief' 😉
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DonnieboyWarrant Officer9 years ago
Nice model and a good runner too.Like your water also.
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Gascoigne

Chief Petty Officer 2nd Class 9 years ago

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HERO

Scratch-built semi-scale from images of a unique vessel used for tug and recovery work on the Norfolk Broads. Was originally steam powered with a fire pump engine,now using diesel. Funnel is hinged to go under low bridges!

#steam #engine #vessel #scratch-scratch scratch #tug #norfolk #built

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Krampus

Warrant Officer 9 years ago

Dirty Deeds

Trial run of "Dirty Deeds" at the Kochelsee, an alpine lake near the town of Murnau, Germany. Fiberglass barebones hull made in the UK, rest is scratch-built inspired in 1970s Bertram 38 with other elements from Bertram 42 and Bertram 46 convertibles. Originally running with 9.6v NIHM battery, now running much better with 10.8v. Re-powered boat at

#lake #fiberhull #scratch-scratch scratch #fiber tow #power boat #battery power #glass #battery #built

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reilly4

Warrant Officer 10 years ago

BPB MTB449 & Vosper MTB385

The British Power Boat MGB 449 belongs to a good friend. The Vosper 73' Type I MTB is scratch-built in 2016 and took 6 months. Both boats are 1/24 scale. The location is Albert Park lake in Melbourne, Australia

#lake #scratch #scratch-built #vosper #albert park #scratch built #power boat #mtb #built

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