Model Boat Mayhem
Mess Deck: General Section => Beginners start here...! => Topic started by: admben25 on January 13, 2007, 09:23:14 pm
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Hi! My name is Richard I'm 24yrs old and live near the city of Gothenburg in Sweden.
I've been building models for 2yrs.
These are my models:
Robbe Dolly:
A small work launch built from a Robbe kit.
Length: 560mm
(http://dolly.jpg)
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Hi Richard
Welcome to mayhem. You will find a helpfull bunch of people here. Any more pictures ?
Cheers...Ken
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Heres the rest of my models. This post is prequel to my first post:
A styrene/balsa barge for towing
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About 600mm length.
see barge.jpg.
An experiemental electric ducted fan boat
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This was an experiment build it doesn't go very fast or steer very good
Length about 600mm
See fanboat.jpg
Victory EP
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Chinese RTR Speed boat
with two direct drive 380motors
on twin propps and one six cell battery.
This is a very fast boat for it's price only problem
is that the included radio doesn't allow proportional throtthle
and there's no rudder.
Steering is done using only left or right propp.
You've probably seen similar boats at your local hobby shop
See victoryep.jog
Graupner Hydro Speed
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Fast Electric Graupner Hydro Speed old kit.
Currently 6cells. Modifying for 12cells.
The balsa box on the canopy is to accodomdate for a box
for my esc.
Length about:600mm
See hydrospeed.jpg
Robbe Sea Jet
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A fun boat. Handles choppy waves very well.
It just bounces it doesnät cut them.
Very stable in choppy waters.
Certainly a boat I recommend.
Six cells. Two counterrotating propps using a gear box
and one 600 engine.
See seajet.jpg
My latest project
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The boat is built like a plywood box. The sides are screwed together with using a Battery Drill and 30x3mm
wooden screws. I haven't used any extra frames. It's not meant to be beautiful, it's mean't to be sturdy and robust.
The boat has no exact replica but is meant to be a semi scale barge. The steering will be done through two independently
controlled motors and two independently controlled rudders. The huge compartment in the middle of the boat is the battery
compartment.The idea is that you can move the batteries to adjust the center of gravity.
Please feel free to contact me if you have any questions, photos of r/c barges, experiences building
r/c barges and other flat bottom r/c boats or just want to discuss r/c scale boat modelling
Material:
Regular non-waterproof 12mm plywood
Paint:
2Layers Solvent based blue wooden paint inside and outside
+3layers wooden boat varnish inside and outside
Technical facts
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2xRobbe Power 600/24 Motors
2xRobbe Gearbox reduction 3.7:1
2xRobbe 3-blade 50mm propellers
2xElectronize FR-15 Speed Controllers
1xHitec 2Channel receiver
1xSanwa Dash 2Ch transmitter
2x7.2v 3000MAh NIMH batteries Mean Green Power Kyosho
2xRobbe rudders has replaced the two nozzles seen in the photos
2xHitec standard steering servos
Length 125cm
Width 30cm
Height ca 9cm
Depth in water: ca 2-3cm
Displacement approx: 7kgs
Weight ready to run: 10-12kgs
See images with name wrkboat..,jpg
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Hi Richard,
Welcome to the forum.
Bob
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hi Richard welcome to the mad house.
ive got a pair of victory ep boats aswell but one has uprated 540 size motors in it goes loads faster then the 380's that come in them.
nice looking tow your making there ;D
Jay
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How did you modifyyour boat did you change propeller shafts and tubes or did ypu just make new
motor mounts and used some kind of coupling between the 3mm 540shaft nd the 2mm propp shaft
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relatively easy mod i think,
removed the standard motor mounts then the 540 type motors rest in line on the lower mount and all i used was some flexible car petrol pipe hose for the coupling.
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v479/jayimageservices/Boats/IMAG0002-1.jpg)
hope this helps, if you wanted to upgrade yours
Jay
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I have just modified an RTR and uograded the 380's to 600's and put on a rudder. Tried her on the pond yesterday and very dissapointed. :-[ I think the weight is to much. Went faster stock! ???
Does your go better than out of the box?
By the way welcome on board.
Regards
Simon