I can offer a useful tip about model boating. DON'T bid on Ebay items after a couple of glasses of wine.
I chucked in what I thought was a silly bid and won!
So now, I've got an elderly Thorneycroft MTB to play with. The paint work is pretty tired and a lot of it is flaking off but it's fine from across the lake. I probably won't due too much just yet although I'm tempted to make the machine gun tub rotate for no other reason that I fancy doing it
. It came complete with a couple of NimH batteries and a 2.4ghz transmitter and receiver so good to go. I took it up to our local boating lake and it works ok but I think I've got a steep learning curve ahead of me especially configuring the r/c transmitter. A couple of extra jobs came up, one of the engines came adrift from the bed so that's top of the to-do list.
I'm sure I'll be popping up around the forum so please take pity on a newbie!
Thanks
Doug