....did it cross your mind briefly when you saw it
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Maybe not the kayak part, but an RC battleship sure would be fun.
Maybe not the kayak part, but an RC battleship sure would be fun.
Being a big guy I'd need a really XL size battleship so that it didn't look like I was listing from taking a couple of torpedo's.
I'm holding out for the aircraft carrier.
I am sure he gets a lot of attention when he is in it.
A new kind of fishing?
Blast the fish rather than hook them.
I have a few other things higher on my "want" list, but it would fun to putt about in!
crazydoug
Maybe not the kayak part, but an RC battleship sure would be fun.
Here's my battleship. Well, destroyer, anyway. Not RC, but I'm working on that.
I have too much stuff already, but I couldn't resist looking at this "hand-made destroyer" advertised in the local buy-and-sell paper, especially since, though it was described as electrically-powered, it was said to have a "small steam engine" with it.
Even though it's huge (the case is 4 feet long), I dragged it home, and a bit of questioning of the former owner revealed that his grandfather, an immigrant from England and thereafter a resident of Ingersoll, Ontario, Canada, spent over four years of his time in the 1920's building a model of HMS Lance, the destroyer that fired the first British shot of WWI on August 5, 1914, and assisted in sinking the German mine-layer Konigin Luise in the same action (first German ship sunk in the war).
Oh. The small steam engine is in a corner, and it runs fine.
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I do have an R/C battleship that is quite a bit smaller than this, and I think that will suffice along those lines. Seems like the superstructure details would be very much in the way of proper paddling in any case. Maybe the electric or steam powered version would better suit my tastes, only using a single bladed paddle for "emergency" needs perhaps.
On a very similar note however, I've spent uncounted hours "dreaming" up the design elements for what I have always referred to as "Canoe Clippers", which is to say three masted Clipper Ship models about the hull size of a canoe, that a person or two would take passage in using peddle (or electric) powered winching systems to control the sails, and a heavily ballasted drop keel to accommodate the scale effect of reduced sail area vs displacement. I believe that I've worked out all the necessary details to actually make a go of it, but never got around to actually doing it. The fun was in the mental design work. Always thought the way to go forward with the concept was to get interested groups (clubs if you will), to build different designs and race them, with the possibility of having some betting on the side. Lake Tahoe would be the perfect venue, what with casinos right on the lakeshores.
Of course once I had all that mentally perfected, my mind naturally advanced onto the next level .... that of "Dueling Frigates" with the possibility of the occasional 74 thrown in for spice!
I'd still be willing to go forward with the concept if anyone knows a Millionaire or three that could get enthused in such a project to the point of funding and hiring a bunch of folks competent at WEST system construction methods, and scale sail makers, along with a few other craftsmen, skilled in a variety of other disciplines.
Ahhhhhhh .......... but to dream!!!