Hi everyone, just joined the mayhem yesterday and thought I'd bore you all with a little intro....
I live in Belton near Great Yarmouth, Norfolk. My interest in model boats began last year when I subscribed to De-Agostini's part works of the HMS Victory. It was something I'd wanted to do for a few years and when I saw it advertised on the tele I couldn't resist. Although I wished I had of
as I made it to about issue 20 and cancelled as I wasn't impressed with their organisational skills and the quality of some of the bits and bobs they were sending out.
I then looked about for another model boat to do and stumbled across a little bargain on ebay which was HMS Bounty's Jolly boat by AL. While assembling this I scoured the t'internet and found another bargain kit which is a fishing trawler called Mare Nostrum and a Viking Long Boat, both by AL. I also came across a kit of a tug boat called Sanson and couldn't resist it
Somebody asked me if I was going to RC it. It was something I hadn't thought of before so I started doing a little research in to it and then the "tug bug" really bit me.
Although saying that I have also just bought a rtr yacht called Paradise. I then thought 'if I'm gonna get into this RC'ing lark I'm going to need a rescue boat' in case my yacht decides to clear off without me or refuses to come back and just sits there laughing at me from the other side of a pond/lake
So I have recently bought a RC kit of a buoy laying boat by Graupner called Ranzow, a build diary is coming very soon. My wife then went and bought me the Bluenose 2 kit by Billing Boats for Christmas.......bless
Oh and nearly forgot
I bought the Dickie tug boat
to play with while I assemble the Ranzow but I am that impressed with it that I am going to upgrade it once I finished Ranzow.
Erm..........sorry for rambling on I get a bit carried away sometimes, anyway Hi everyone, happy new year to you all and I hope you all except me into the fold as I'm sure gonna like being on here, the info I've already stumbled upon is great. Be prepared though for some newbie questions especially about the electrics side of RCing as I can't get my head into gear with it all yet
