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Arno,
    Thank you for your humorous comment.
To tell the truth, I was a bit careful for neighbours' eyes before inflating the pool and thought once to try it in my room using 12V10A sealed lead battery in vain since the cigar lighter type of plug for the inflator pump did not couple with the tabs of the battery.
Not only neighbours but also even my wife may have possibly thought of me as an exceptionally crazy.!!!!

Thanks to such an abnormal conduct of inflating the pool I sufficiently could confirm the good stability with the ideal draught as seen below.
Preliminary balance check especially before the maiden voyage is quite indispensable and critically important for the RC fast boat to sail on the large lake/pond, isn't it.??!!

Kiyo

Hi Kiyo,
I will keep my fingers crossed as well for sailing the model on the lake. Hopefully the wind will calm down soon
What will your neighbours have thought at first when they saw you inflating a small pool in winter time   But as modellers we have to bear that others might think we are a bit crazy
Kind regards
Arno

It took me a couple of hours this morning to get off the main layer of red paint from the main superstructure of the Clyde using 60 and then 80 grade garnet paper fitted on to a palm held mouse., plus what was left on the two extra mouldings, which have had a couple or more hours spent sanding them down by hand the other night

My arms and back now ache from bending, shoving and pulling, and the mouldings will need some tarting up after a base coat of primer have been given.

But before that, they will need more sanding with finer grit abrasive paper, most probably 250,. 400 and then an 800 grade.

But the good thing is, ITS GETTING THERE!!!

Hi with the low value of kit made model boats built and ready to sail, I think that old kits have more value left untouched especially the box.

Sad but that is my experience as I help dispose of deceased club members models.  There are few buyers and not that many who know how to look after them.

Regards
Roy

Alan, I've looked at this build several times since you posted it, but didn't realise it was yours . Love build.
Regards
Ant 

Hi tica,
A great thanks for your interest in the sailing scenes of the patrol boat on the lake.
I am waiting for a good weather suitable for the first trial run at cruising speed.
Wind speed on the lake is desirable at 1m/s-2m/s(2.3miles/h-4.6miles/h) for the run, but 7-8m/s wind was blowing today
over the lake.

Pics below are my worst sailing experience with my flag ship Jupiter-F99 at around 4m/s wind in the winter...
But I was confident for her to surpass the terrible conditions from previous numerous runs as in the pics below.
But operation of the boat was not interesting at all.!!!
Kiyo

First outing on the water

HI Kiyo
Looking great 
Hope to see pics. from the lake soon 
BrCarsten

Final balance check was done in full load by which this patrol boat is supposed to carry out the first trial run on our boating lake.    In order to get this this well-balanced draught, I set a 130g flat lead ingot ballast at the sternmost position.
I could fortunately succeed in having similar draught line to its 1/1 counterpart this time.
This is I think one of the very important scale realism on the water.

 
Revell 1/144 - Das Boot - U-Boat Type VII C U96
 

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