Hi:
I've spent the last week or so ploughing through this website, and learned a great deal in the process - as well as having a chuckle at some of the comments on the forums!
I'm an expat Scot, living in Brittany. So far my modelling efforts have been limited to a couple of puffers built years ago out of brown sticky tape, powered with six volt motors, which voyaged on the boating pond which once graced the promenade in Rothesay on the Isle of Bute.
Over the past few years I've contented myself with 1250 scale merchant ships, but have now taken a quantum leap and bought a TID tug kit from Mobile Marine Models, basically because I have a mate who owns a pond which is currently unoccupied except for a couple of woebegone ducks...
I've had the boat a week, and have spent most of that time gazing at it like a rabbit caught in the headlights - for me it's going to be a major operation - in fact, it scares the hell out of me!
My better half says I've bitten off more than I can chew, so just to spite her I'm going to build it properly.
I'd ask in advance for your patience; I know precious little about this sort of construction, and my knowledge of radio control is limited to switching from the Light Programme to the Home Service.
In terms of stupid questions, I fully expect to set standards that will never be equalled.....
Brandane
