After sitting under the workbench for over a year, finally got a toy "space gun" into a model. The gun was bought because it had recoil, sound and light effects which looked perfect for a working model. Well, perfect save for the size, rather big even after the handle, trigger and a rather weird rotating light effect on one end had been cut away.
Something compatible with my other similar models in 1/32-1/35 scale was the plan and eventually an LCS looked ideal. They were landing craft modified to give close gunfire support when making an assault on enemy held beaches. The model had to be shortened to produce a convenient size (32 inches long, 10 lb weight) so the gun is still overlarge but it hopefully still looks like a LCS vessel.
Construction is from pine planks, plywood and cardboard and uses a single 540 motor and 6 volt battery. Top speed is way too fast, but handy for keeping out of harms way, so most of the time it cruises around on part throttle.
The toy gun can be trained from side to side and fired under RC. Good fun to cruise along the bank side and shoot at anything that annoys you!
Plans now with the Editor of Model Boats.
Glynn Guest