Model Boat Mayhem
Mess Deck: General Section => Model Boating => Topic started by: sparkey on March 18, 2013, 10:03:06 am
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%% I was thinking about an unusual project, looking at a 2 litre plastic bottle floating on the Thames at Wandsworth bridge yesterday afternoon.I could fit one with a radio, hardware and rudder (it would have to be the dark brown type),I could take it down the lake and have
a bit of fun with people thinking what it is just some rubbish on the lake but with a mind of its own.The only trouble is I have too many
builds and not enough time, still someday I might try it(it might be worth a laugh),happy boating ,Ray. >>:-( >>:-(
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Nice idea Ray
I guess you could split the model down the centre for fitting all the gear inside and charging the batteries. Screwing the lid back on would hold the top end together.
Heard a story the other day from someone who had a radio controlled swan and people on the bank used to throw bread to it! :D
Craig.
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Probably make for an almost indestructible boat! O0
Also see:
http://www.mya-uk.org.uk/yachts/bottleboat.html
http://www.rcgroups.com/forums/showthread.php?t=988664&highlight=bottle+boats
http://www.rcgroups.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1071509
http://www.rcgroups.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1078321
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-pacific-10759623
(http://cdn.coolest-gadgets.com/wp-content/uploads/Solar-Powered-Bottle-Boats.jpg)
(http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/photo/images/attachement/jpg/site1/20110915/001aa018f83f0fdba40d04.jpg)
(http://www.fijitimes.com/images/artpics/160328.jpg)
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The mighty HMS Silver Swan...
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http://www.modelboatmayhem.co.uk/Shows2008/Warwick-Pool/imagepages/image63.html
(http://www.modelboatmayhem.co.uk/Shows2008/Warwick-Pool/images/Warwick2008-Pool-064.JPG)
http://www.modelboatmayhem.co.uk/Shows/Paris/imagepages/image22.html
(http://www.modelboatmayhem.co.uk/Shows/Paris/images/Paris-22.JPG)
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Much more eco friendly for smoothing troubled waters than oil? :embarrassed:
Regards Ian
Coat, got.
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WE have an annual duck race here in the village.... I have always wanted to RC a little yellow duck... not to win of course... just for a laugh.
Lee
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March 1982 Model Boats Magazine, I think. RC Coke bottle, RC North Sea Emergency Life Boat off an oil rig and USS Long Beach build. I remember it well, my first issue ever.
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I trust the iron was propelled by steam?
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No, surely it's electric.
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Many years ago I used to be a regular visitor to the London model engineers show when it used to cover all aspects of modeling, RC Cars, boats, planes, static models, live steam Etc...
I always remember there being an electric iron on the water but I'm sure it wasn't a standard iron, I think it was an oversize plastic moulding like you might expect to find in a shop window advertising.
Among all the perfectly finished scale boats at the show it was the iron that always made me smile. :-)
Craig.
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Gosh, an electric steam iron. We still heat them on the glowing peat fire...och aye :(( isn't science just wonderful. Whateffer next ?
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i remember some 25 years ago as a younger modeller seeing some rc 'drift wood' at our lake, - it was moulded/ adapted from the simulated wood off a domestic ' front room electric fire' - remember those that were all the rage then with the aluminmum fan that used to roate over a red lamp to simulate the flicker ???
the ' wood moulding' was cloaked around a simple tub afair of a boat and the model just chugged around slowly......
odd subject for a model..................... but whatever makes you happy !!!
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isn't science just wonderful. Whateffer next ?
Electricity, there's a rumour we are getting it soon.
regards Jack.
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Malcolm Newbold from the now defunct New Brighton club did a Coke bottle about 30 years ago. He won 1st prize with it at the Model Convention at Ellesmere Port. he still uses it now on a regular basis.
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Has anyone ever converted a ship in a bottle ? %%
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Hi.
the yacht guys have been doing bottle boat races for some time now.
http://www.yachtsandyachting.com/news/154375/Bottle-Boats-at-Waldringfield (http://www.yachtsandyachting.com/news/154375/Bottle-Boats-at-Waldringfield)
Frank.
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i did think a while back about makeing an rc duck. apparently you can fool real ducks with them if you don't hare around the pond
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Has anyone ever converted a ship in a bottle ? %%
Right, you two hermits, stop that sketch. I think it's silly.
Monty Python aside ..... what an idea :-))
Dave
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A lad made a RC log that he used to slowly drift towards people sitting by the bank-once close it used to talk to them, say hello etc. The folk looked so confused :}
Si:)
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A lad made a RC log that he used to slowly drift towards people sitting by the bank-once close it used to talk to them, say hello etc. The folk looked so confused :}
Si:)
that is simply brilliant.
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A guy down here in Hobart had a wicker picnic basket that would float up to you, then the flap would lift up and a small stuffed animal would pop up and squirt water, still not sure why
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%% There really are some clever guys out there to think of all these strange models,worth a laugh or two. We must not take ourself too
seriously,after all we do what we do because we enjoy it,keep the mad ideas coming in,happy boating,Ray %% >>:-( [size=78%] [/size]
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Hi Sparkey,
I'm curious to know what machine you are using to post your messages with. I was wondering what causes the [size=78%] [/size] remakes at the end of them. ?
Ken
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{-) Hi,Ken,sorry I don't have a clue,just an basic laptop working on windows 7,I am not much of a computor expert I can just about do basic
tasks,regards,Ray. >>:-( >>:-( [size=78%] [/size]
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Hi Sparkey,
I'm curious to know what machine you are using to post your messages with. I was wondering what causes the [size=78%] [/size] remakes at the end of them. ?
Ken
I get exactly the same problem if I do a hard return sometimes.
I am using Win7 and GoogleChrome.
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%% Hi, tigertiger, win7 and google chrome same as me,Ray. :P :P
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My New computer came with windows 7 so I've put Mozilla's Firefox on top for the internet as I've grown to love it. What a learning curve I'm on. That's why I queried the extra marks. They seem to be a re-sizing instructions, as if the original was somehow larger. ?? very mysterious.
Do you see them when you review your letter before posting please ? If so, then maybe you can delete them at that time. If we do it our end it will show as a correction and spoil your Blog.
Hope this helps
Ken
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%% Hi,Ken,does not appear this end,thanks for your help,Ray {-) {-)
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maybe you can delete them at that time.
Or Ray could just post then immediately edit it
Dave
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That's true. Thanks Dave. You have half an hour to edit your posts.
Ken