zooma
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Admiral · 8,145 pts
Rossendale, United Kingdom
Member since Sep 2020
Last online 8 hours 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
10 boatsPursuit
Nice Birthday Present. With a birthday following my renewed interest in r/c power boats some years ago, my …
Alpha 1000 (Inception).
When I first returned to r/c model boating after many years away, I wanted something that I could use while…
Vic 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…
zooma’s build blogs
11 blogsClassic 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 …
My first ever classic r/c power boat model was built in the 1960’s from an Aerokits Swordsman kit that was paid for from my meagre appren…
I have been very pleased with my copy of a Sea Commander, but it does exhibit a strange desire to “dive” if it should turn RIGHT into cho…
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 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…
Rapier1. 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…