Topic: Giant models (Read 23337 times)

Arrow5 · « **Reply #25 on:** August 25, 2014, 03:53:57 pm »

It is only wise. Flares even if inshore on a big lake or river. Radio or at least a waterproof mobile phone. Charts , compass, full-size anchor, ropes etc and the must have item for every sailor ...a good knife. Knowing the rules of the road,flags, marker buoys and basic seamanship the list is endless. Your life is a risk from the instant you step onboard till you are back on dry land. You cease to be a modeler and are now a sailor no matter what your vessel looks like. The new(ish) 4 car ferry Cromarty Queen could be cuter than a tanker, fun with R/C vehicles perhap a Grey version with tanks (armour)

Jonty · « **Reply #26 on:** August 25, 2014, 04:14:47 pm »

How about a structure like an army assault boat - solid hull bottom with collapsible canvas sides? Should reduce weight and storage space.

GAZOU · « **Reply #27 on:** August 25, 2014, 05:55:24 pm »

http://www.portminiature-saintsavinien.fr/p/notre-flotille.html

Plastic - RIP · « **Reply #28 on:** August 25, 2014, 06:11:22 pm »

While these boats are really nice, they're all way too big!

They are effectively cabin-cruiser sized boats that look a bit like a tug/ferry/paddle-steamer etc.

They need large trailers and multi-person handling out of the water and a garage to keep them in.

I'm still looking for something as small as possible for use on little lakes without launching ramps. I'm not going across the Atlantic in it.

The Kittiwake boats are excellent but are still 24' long and big enough for 2 people!

I'd like to be around 8' if possible.

slug · « **Reply #29 on:** August 25, 2014, 06:14:08 pm »

gazou that is fantastic....I could play all day....tony

Arrow5 · « **Reply #30 on:** August 25, 2014, 06:30:41 pm »

8ft ? Sounds like a Springer right enough

Mad Scientist · « **Reply #31 on:** August 25, 2014, 10:56:43 pm »

8 feet (approx. 2.5 m) sit-in kayak...you sit in it, and your upper body and head are (roughly) where a battleship might have its superstructure. Use lightweight materials to make the 'turrets', etc. Get an old trolling motor, controller and battery, and you have the 'makings' of a 'battleship' that can patrol your local lake for hours on end.

If your head sticks up a bit too much, get an old full-face motorcycle helmet, and add a few bits to it to disguise your helmeted head as a gun director/fire control radar!

Tom

Plastic - RIP · « **Reply #32 on:** August 26, 2014, 08:43:00 am »

Quote from: Mad Scientist on August 25, 2014, 10:56:43 pm

8 feet (approx. 2.5 m) sit-in kayak...you sit in it, and your upper body and head are (roughly) where a battleship might have its superstructure. Use lightweight materials to make the 'turrets', etc. Get an old trolling motor, controller and battery, and you have the 'makings' of a 'battleship' that can patrol your local lake for hours on end.

If your head sticks up a bit too much, get an old full-face motorcycle helmet, and add a few bits to it to disguise your helmeted head as a gun director/fire control radar!

Tom

This is what I'm thinking - but I'd design and make a purpose-built hull and I'd be laying down to reduce the height and increase stability. The whole thing would be transportable by one person and I could hang it in the garage.

mermod · « **Reply #33 on:** August 26, 2014, 09:32:08 am »

I would like to build this but my wife might just kill me.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CIcGLjjOOb0

Phill

Plastic - RIP · « **Reply #34 on:** August 26, 2014, 09:42:37 am »

Quote from: mermod on August 26, 2014, 09:32:08 am

I would like to build this but my wife might just kill me.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CIcGLjjOOb0

Phill

Excellent!

Arrow5 · « **Reply #35 on:** August 26, 2014, 10:00:38 am »

Another one from youtube that could be made int a semi-scale vintage period warship of your imagination. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q4eR7CUwZn4 "Building a 16ft canoe & an 8FT duckboat"

radiojoe · « **Reply #36 on:** August 26, 2014, 10:17:52 am »

As Arrow5 said that shape of the hull would certainly lend it's self to one on the dreadnoughts with a bit of imagination.

radiojoe · « **Reply #37 on:** August 26, 2014, 10:31:56 am »

When I was chatting to one of the guys that put on the display at Peasholm Park, probably twenty odd years ago, I do remember him letting me in on a little secret when I mentioned the possibility of capsizing, all the manned boats have a pendulum keel, a small version of a racing yacht keel, which actually makes them quite stable,

Arrow5 · « **Reply #38 on:** August 26, 2014, 12:26:00 pm »

The Invincible model has a retractable drop keel like a sailing dinghy about 4sq.ft. and 30 odd pounds. The side area helps with the roll as does oversize bilge keels. Another anecdote about the Peaseholme models was that they were powered by ex RAF electric motors, Spitfire retracts or similar. Dont know if that is true.

cos918 · « **Reply #39 on:** August 30, 2014, 08:56:50 pm »

Quote from: arrow5 on August 25, 2014, 12:54:03 pm

If it is powered and manned you will need to get licence for places like Lake Windermere and most marinas. Transport just like a sailing dinghy. Some nice models in a French theme park for kids (and people like us) A very simple ply flat bottom submarine is (was ?) kitted by Kittywake Boats here in UK. Easily car top-able but I`d have reservations in these trigger happy days, very sinister and "potential threat" looking. They also do a frigate and a King George V battleship a bit like the Peaseholme Park jobs. His full-size sailing yacht are superb.

Love the photo of the top ferry. Real shame its not in Silja livery with Finlandia on her bow

john

Mad Scientist · « **Reply #40 on:** August 30, 2014, 09:45:56 pm »

Here's an amazing place: http://www.portrevel.com/

Tom

Arrow5 · « **Reply #41 on:** August 31, 2014, 09:35:59 am »

No need to go to France, we have our own model ship training establishment here in the UK. The Warsash Maritime Academy have a fleet of large manned models at a new (since 2011) location near Romsey, Hampshire to replace the lake on the Solent. www.mannedmodels.com list the fleet and scale specs. The tug is R/C.

Arrow5 · « **Reply #42 on:** August 31, 2014, 09:40:33 am »

Quote from: cos918 on August 30, 2014, 08:56:50 pm

Love the photo of the top ferry. Real shame its not in Silja livery with Finlandia on her bow

john

John, we should start a manned ferry club

...just log on to www.justferries.de and take our pick.

Arrow5 · « **Reply #43 on:** August 31, 2014, 02:08:56 pm »

Quote from: plastic on August 26, 2014, 08:43:00 am

This is what I'm thinking - but I'd design and make a purpose-built hull and I'd be laying down to reduce the height and increase stability. The whole thing would be transportable by one person and I could hang it in the garage.

Dont think this guy got it quite correct

malcolmfrary · « **Reply #44 on:** August 31, 2014, 05:04:05 pm »

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I guess it would be like laying in a floating coffin.

And there is the problem. Getting into a craft like that is easy. Getting out, another story.

derekwarner · « **Reply #45 on:** September 01, 2014, 12:52:06 am »

...this could be a combination for BB63 & the ski ramp on older British carriers

...or the skippers bum is too big......Derek

seathug · « **Reply #46 on:** September 05, 2014, 08:38:34 pm »

Why dont you Just get those small plastic canoe
And shaped it like a boat put on a motor and you have a small lightweight boat

seathug · « **Reply #47 on:** September 06, 2014, 09:54:14 pm »

Plywood electric boat: http://youtu.be/CIcGLjjOOb0

Now this is cool
His selling the plans of this boat
Looks like a tugboat to me hahah

Martin (Admin) · « **Reply #48 on:** September 18, 2014, 11:18:45 pm »

The 22ft model of the Titanic shown below is the work of Kevin Cassidy.

http://www.solarnavigator.net/solar_titanic.htm

Martin (Admin) · « **Reply #49 on:** September 18, 2014, 11:30:21 pm »

Stan Fraser, 47, spent 12 years building his 1:10 100ftv scale model and yesterday opened it to the public, 100 years on from the vessel’s ill-fated maiden voyage.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2128193/Titanic-fans-1-10-scale-replica-doomed-liner-opens-public-garden--sunk-council-planners.html

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