Hi !
I'm Arnaud, a 26 years old frenchie living near the coast of Vendée, and making advantage of a sick leave to get back into the hobby after an almost 10 years break where other hobbies had taken over.
In current sailing condition i have a 1:50 Billing Boats Hoga, an US Navy WWII tugboat that i bought already built but with quite the crappy running gear installation, under motorized and bad weight distribution. Now with a MFA 2,5:1 reduced 540 motor, 55mm 4 blade brass prop and well ballasted in the bottoms she sails quite nicely for such a small boat. Now onto the finishing, putting back railings, touching up paint, etc. And building her a barge to tow around also !
Just uploaded a video of her yesterday at the lake, with the Mrs at the sticks :
https://youtu.be/Kpm7-Py5PPw (Can you embed a video in a post on here ?)
Other modelling wise i still have at my parent's a few vintage Tamiya 1:10 rc cars which need new batteries and a dusting, a Springer tug hull to finish and a big box of unfinished plastic models. Thinking about a Robbe Katja or the like to get the Admiral's fingers caught in the prop too, she's enjoying the tug but it's too slow for her (and doesn't have a working horn to her great sadness).
I might need to collapse the other lung to get more sick leave after all !
