Well, as previously stated in my build of the Assurance Class tug, I lost all interest in building. So, to try and remedy that I thought a couple of smaller builds might help out.
One of those that I purchased was the Hobby Engine Southampton tug. I know it has been about for a long time, but comes highly recommended on a regular basis for a RTR boat. Although improvements/modifications could be made.
I planned for mine to look different from the start and to upgrade the electrics as other people had previously done.
To keep it as a casual fun build, I did not want to create a build log, but did take some pictures during the conversion, so have now decided to show what I did and the final outcome as I could not find that much information in the way of other complete logs. But that could very well just be me not looking properly or most people keeping it as it is.
So, to start, I purchased the boat back on 23
rd January 2013 and received it next day, thanks to Howes Models.
First thing was to check everything was in the box and what there was.
The boat, with stand, 7.2 volt 800mAh NiMH battery, tyres, wall charger (not shown), cord and 27 MHz Am 2 channel stick radio.
The battery was charged, batteries put in the transmitter and everything checked to make sure all was working okay.
Everything working as it should. Fourteen screws removed from the deck and it was starting to come apart.
Alan……………