All respected Friends.. and Modellers.. i told you all it is too easy to make crafts from foam boards.. so one day one craft.. so, i turned to my work table again, and decided to make a super Catamaran race boat... this one is not a copy of any craft but purely from my imagination.. still i am thanking to the Veteran, of Catamarans and Hydros, Sir Joseph Ryan, from UK.. he gave me lots of useful advices before i start the work..
so i made this.. and i am thanking here to one of my Friend, and Modeller who send me the high power motor to me as damaged.. so, i took some reworks on it, while replacing the bearing.. so working well... nothing else is used here to finish this craft as flexible drive shaft or so.. she is 28 inches long and proportional, and yes designed in such a way to operate with my all other craft.. here i starts from some simple piece of foam boards..
now complete.. see how simple.. to work..
now building the bodyworks..
here i used a ball point pen body as prop outer shaft.. nothing extra ordinary is used.. and sealed with PU putty..
can see the prop outer shaft and rudder attachment tube..
from my experience i know that nothing can beat the custom hand made props on ship models... here i set the blades at shallow angles to cop with high RPM of motor..
now time to build super structure..the cockpit was made of same foam board, with acrylic sheet wind shield..
see it is not any complicated..
in place and water proofing..
now time to paint.. this time i finished her with industrial yellow, in NC base..
now reaching to finish.. all stickers were printed in an A4 paper and cut pasted..
stand is again made of foam board.. so simple..
finished and time for action..
more angles..look how stunning she is..
some more..
see in action..
and my growing race boat family... hoooy... (:|~
see the action here.. all Friends.. sorry for the poor quality slow video.. its too hard to control her with one hand as the camera in second hand.. so will shoot a high speed video when i get someone here.. to RC her..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qAi0aaqq7Yg
all respected ones.. when we thinks about a new fast boat, we instantly Googles.. and sees lots of models around.. but shocks while looking in to price tag, that even without any electronics needed.. so, why..? while we can make.. take pieces of foam board.. cut it.. make it.. RCyit..
Your virgina... The boat.. Is awesome LMAO..
thank you Shad.. working on more.. thanks again.. :salute:
Great boad sirjee, good to see you back in action. How is your health now sir??
Satya.. thank you.. no time to think about health issues... still lots more to work.. still working.. so happy..
Very very nice work Roopesh. More importnat, nice and happy is that you are back...
best wishes
ashta
million thanks for the kind words Sir.. from the encouragement from all of you.. still working.. and also commissioned to teach academic Cadets to teach ship modeling.. this and coming year.. and still working on new boats..
Wonderful work sir. Nice to see you back on the board.
thank you Dharmik.. many of modelers asked for more details about build logs.. will add later after resizing the photographs..
roopesh sir
its all possible by you only
iam the big fan of you
Kamaraj.. anyone can try.. and thank you..