Here is my last creation. It started more than 20 years ago with a project of a 1/22th steamer. But the steam machine was too heavy and too high (and my technical skill with small brass pipes too low) so I gave up and resell the steam machine, but could'nt decide to throw the hull away. First trial with an other idea, again with a 40 years old Remote Control, the water line was too high and the general shape not as good as I wished:
.So, I had to cut it to make the hull longer and higher. Used a lot of recycled stuff (a cement tube cap for the loudspeaker, beauty fluid bottle top for the radar, chicken cage wire mesh for the boarding ladders...), searched a long time for adequate sized life rafts (and finaly made them with balsa). So, here it is:
The rear deck:
The bows with its remote controlled mobile gun turret:
View into the cabin (have other pics if you want to see more détails):
Checking the lighting:
And first water probe:
Could'nt go far, I've got some problems with my old 40 MHz RC...
... but hope to resolve that and be able to show later "real" missions. Also hope you enjoy it.
), one front looking but located on the cabin roof and the second one at the aft. Not sure if it would float.
