Hey guys I am used to doing Super Scale R/C Planes from factory drawings and the like, but now I have grandkids that are 4 and 6 and at the right age i feel safe taking them down to the river where we feed the ducks and geese.
since they listen and act way more mature than their age I thought it would be fun to build and sail some boats with them.
I look for plans online and most dont even compare to the stuff we get for planes as they are very sparsely drawn with not much details. I want to bring my plane drawing into ships and possibly come up with a super detailed set of plans.
so here my delema,
1: I cant seem to find anything cool that trips my trigger to start with
2: dont know crap abt boats
3: I would love to do something eventually like a tall ship like the constitution or the sorts
4: has to have lot of cool scale detail goodies
5: would like to maybe do something like an old sail cutter with motor too like the old steam cutters.
6: doesnt have to have sails for first one just something super detailable like maybe a paddle wheel delta queen would be awesome since sailing will be on the mississippi river, or even to do an african queen (big bogey fan here) with working steam engine
7: like all my stuff it will be large boat prob 4-6 ft long range but a nice cargo ship or yacht would do too
Any help and ideas i would love as i am totally lost at the moment. I want to go as scale as possible with the hull as i notice some ppl orry abt above water but use an unscale hull and the ship or boat doesnt seem to look right if you know what I mean
Problem is I dont like kits and what plans I do find out there dont even qualify to me as plans and I got bilked out of 50 bucks for a so called set of plans that was nothing but a top and side view with abt 5 stations shown so I am leery when it comes to boats