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View Poll Results: will it float?
yes and it will be fast 3 75.00%
no but it would be a nice submersible 1 25.00%
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Old 01-06-12, 09:21 AM   #151
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This will give you a idea of the size of these. Yep...I went overboard a bit! The smaller motor was in a Piper Cub RC (400 motor I think)




My model is getting heavy. The bulkheads are the larger plywood. The fiberglass and many coats of paint/resin have added a lot of weight. Just as well because I will have to add ballast so she sits in the water correctly. I will use lead shot for ballast.
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Old 01-06-12, 09:52 AM   #152
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That water was way too bright and blue -



So I had a quick play with 'shop -



Although the surface vessel is stupid to drop in such shallow water, and with little speed. Reminds me of Dover, December 1939, stupid people.
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Old 10-06-12, 08:43 AM   #153
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Sorry for not posting for a lot time now, I 've been busy.

A quick update: My motor now is a Graupner 700 BB Turbo, the lead baterries are gone and I have installed 50 (yes 50) lithium-ion.

Plus my shipyard is now relocated and renovated


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Old 10-08-12, 12:02 PM   #154
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Nice boat

Looks like a great and time consuming hobby, i never got further than building Matchbox planes from wo2 when i was a kid. Maybe when i retire in the far future i will try to build something like this, where do you find the time?
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Old 10-08-12, 12:03 PM   #155
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Nice boat

Looks like a great and time consuming hobby, maybe when i retire in the far future i will try to build something like this, where do you find the time?
I was working on it during the weekends.
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Old 10-09-12, 10:43 AM   #156
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I see, at the moment i'm too busy but topics like this inspire me
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I see, at the moment i'm too busy but topics like this inspire me
Its a quite interesting hobby, have you ever done a model before?
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Old 10-10-12, 11:29 AM   #158
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Its a quite interesting hobby, have you ever done a model before?
Yes, when i was young i glued lots of Matchbox model sets together, mostly Wo2 aircraft. Then painted them as best i could.

But for the last 20 years i haven't build anything.
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Yes, when i was young i glued lots of Matchbox model sets together, mostly Wo2 aircraft. Then painted them as best i could.

But for the last 20 years i haven't build anything.
I think that you will find your return to this hobby very satisfying, especially when you finish your project.
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Old 10-10-12, 11:37 AM   #160
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I think that you will find your return to this hobby very satisfying, especially when you finish your project.
Yep, that's the nice thing about it, takes alot of patience to build something to your satisfaction then see it finished and allready thinking about what to do next
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