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roycv Bronze

Fleet Admiral · 11,642 pts Watford, Hertfordshire, United Kingdom Member since Apr 2020 Last online 4 hours ago Age 88

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Anglian Trawler

I have been doing a bit of re-furbishing and this is the Very old Hobby's kit for The Anglian Trawler, abou…

20 13 3 years ago

small sailing yacht

I built this one for my grandaughter. She is from a MB free plan about 12 inches long that used to have a s…

16 6 3 years ago

Celia May

This is one of those toy boats that I used to look at through the Basset-lowke window in Holborn. Not an or…

18 15 3 years ago

Lilla Dan

Lilla Dan but not as you might know her! She is an extended version 36 inches stern to bowsprit. The hull i…

9 2 3 years ago

Condor

This was drawn up from a 6 x 4 plan out of Yachting Monthly and is called Goosander. She was designed as a …

2 5 4 years ago

Graupner Gracia

Gracia is my all time favourite! I had the plans and was about to build when I had an email from friend Kei…

3 0 4 years ago

Huntress

Hi all this model was scratch built using the free plan Sparkler as the basis. She is just over 16 inches l…

15 8 4 years ago

Mary Ann No.2

This is another Mary Ann, I bought her off ebay after a good negotiation to lower the price. She was built …

6 0 4 years ago

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Forum reply11 hours agoRe: Question of the Day?Easy Peasy, I was watching a TV documentary about it on cable TV 2 days ago. It just broke into 2 pieces in a storm. Roy♥ 21 likes Forum reply11 hours agoRe: Big question@Nick-Ward Hi is that your own lake? If so I am so jealous!!!! Roy♥ 14 likes Forum reply4 days agoRe: Question from a while back@EdW Graupner Elke I have the build notes on my laptop. I had a kit and swapped it for another kit. Nice model. As an aside the hull of the kit will do a lot of different boats a friend of mine made a Lilla Da…♥ 6 likes Forum reply5 days agoRe: Job Lot:- Vintage ACOMS AP-227 Mk11. 27meg Radio Components and Handbook.@zooma Hi, I have the frequency boards in my garage, as you say nobody uses them any more. I think I will re-purpose the pegs for domestic use! I seem to remember that the main problem was the user would take …♥ 3 likes Forum reply5 days agoRe: Job Lot:- What is this?With reference to my post #5 this was all prior to proportional RC just on/off switches. The rx. would have an electro magnet with very light contacts which would probably operate another relay which could han…♥ 4 likes Forum reply5 days agoRe: Job Lot:- What is this?Hi all ,I wind up the one I have by turning the large gear as I think the spring is contained in there. When winding the mechanism runs backwards fast. The rubber band driven actuators have a large hook for th…♥ 4 likes Forum reply5 days agoRe: Question of the Day?Hi Doug. I tried to spread the information across the U boats without spoiling the Question. So detail sorted against sub. Nos. U47 Gunter Prien Sank Royal Oak. in Scapa Flow. U99 Otto Kretschmer wrote book Th…♥ 21 likes Forum reply5 days agoRe: Job Lot:- What is this?The item is a clockwork rudder actuator. The receiver was a single channel and turned on and off the carrier wave to the receiver and the coils pull and release one pulse left rudder then neutral next pulse ri…♥ 4 likes Forum reply5 days agoRe: Job Lot:- Vintage ACOMS AP-227 Mk11. 27meg Radio Components and Handbook.@zooma Hi we did have the split channels 20Khtz above the lower colour, And the Black channel could also have the crystals reversed which gave you an extra one. I have most of them still. I do not think all of…♥ 3 likes Forum reply5 days agoRe: Job Lot:- Vintage ACOMS AP-227 Mk11. 27meg Radio Components and Handbook.My favourite set is the Hitec 3 channel transmitter, if anyone has one I am keen to have it. The 3rd. ch is a lever on the top right of the Tx or a knob on the left. Modern AA cells are wider than the old lowe…♥ 3 likes

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