zooma
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Admiral · 8,545 pts
Rossendale, Lancashire, United Kingdom
Member since Sep 2020
Last online 13 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
11 boatsSprite Plus
This Sprite Plus is a lengthened version of the LesRo Sprite that is now 30” long to make it a better boat …
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…
Pursuit
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…
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, …
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 …
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…
When I was at school and in my young to mid teens, I liked to read the Model Maker magazine that was current at that time. Although it wa…
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…
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…