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[peter61_uk]

I stumbled across this company, Starik Vacform .................
Does anyone have any experience with their vacform hulls ?????
They are cheap ....... But are they any good ????

http://www.sarik-vacform.com/

[essex2visuvesi]

The used to do RC car bodyshells back in the 80's if it's the same company

[peter61_uk]

Yes they do car bodyshells and half dozen or so boat hull (semi kits)........... Not sure if I'm allowed to post a link.......... No doubt someone will tell me , so I apologise in advance if I've broken a rule here..........

http://www.sarik-vacform.com



This is fine and informative     ken

[mikearace]

Have bought large sheets of plasticard from them as the owner lives pretty close to me.  The guy has come to our club a while back  offerings and deals and a couple of people bought one or two of the vac-forms which for the price seem quite good.  But bear in mind they are just basic vac form builds, nothing fancy but the quality of the actual vac form form seemed good. They did do a few more such as pusher tugs etc   

[Stan]

If I am right many years ago they did a vac  formed  WW2 German U Boat type 7. I did have one never got round to building it may have given it away hope this helps.

Stan

[barriew]

Pretty sure they do the vacform hulls that Model Boats sell. I've had a couple which were OK.


Barrie

[mudway]

The scale would be nice to know or at least the size of the hulls to work it out.

[Stan]

Further to my post this morning the sub moulding must have been made in the early nineties.

Stan.

[Netleyned]

The ASRL is Reviewed over six pages in Model Boats Sept 2008.
The scale of the 22in hull is quoted as around 1/32.
Quite a favourable review.


Ned

[peter61_uk]

I think I might buy the Fast Attack boat and see what I can make of it....... For £22.00 it has to be a fair punt.

[Stan]

I understand they have shop on e/bay which includes pictures of the models.

Stan

[madrob]

I remember the German sub too, I built one as a surface runner, same as Stan I rrcon it was the early 90s

[triumphjon]

not that ive built any of the boats i used to collect model car shells on a fortnightly basis from sarik and deliver them to weston on the mud , the quality of the cars was very good .

[U-33]

Sarik stuff is good, I've built two of their submersibles, the U boat, the offshore race boat and currently have a fire boat in the cupboard awaiting time to build it, plus a third submersible half built.

Cheap and cheerful, and dead easy to build.

Rich