Building Scale Model Electric-Powered Boats
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Batteries
Category1=Non-Fiction
Category=WDHB
Category=WDHR
Construction
COP=United Kingdom
Decals
Delivery_Pre-order
Drive motors
Electrical circuits
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Finishing
Home workshop
Kit built
Language_English
Launch
Launching slings
Lights
Making silicon moulds
Model engineering
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Painting
Price_€20 to €50
Propellors
PS=Active
Radio-control systems
RC
RNLI Lifeboat model
Rudder servos
Scale
Scratch-built
Servos
Smoke generators
softlaunch
Sound generators
Special effects
Stability
Steam yacht model
Testing
Torbay Severn class lifeboat
Transporting trolleys
Weathering
Product details
- ISBN 9780719841163
- Weight: 535g
- Dimensions: 189 x 246mm
- Publication Date: 01 Nov 2022
- Publisher: The Crowood Press Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
- Language: English
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Building scale model boats that can sail under their own power is a challenging and rewarding hobby requiring varied skills from woodworking to painting to wiring electrical components. This book details everything you need to know to get started: from the tools, materials and equipment required to motors, servos, propellers and remote controls. There are step-by-step guides to the more challenging procedures. There are details on the different types of kits available and how to choose one. Advice is given on glues, fillers, making silicon moulds, and finishes such as painting, decals and weathering. Finally, there is the building of an off-the-shelf kit for the steam yacht Komet and scratch-built RNLI Lifeboat The Torbay Severn class lifeboat.
Gordon Longworth spent his early life in Devon, England, growing up by the sea and this inspired his love of boats – both real and scale model. A modelmaker for over 50 years, he now judges local and regional competitions. Although originally an instrument engineer by profession, later he managed the technical training centre for a major European company, teaching every nationality about smart instrumentation, until retirement.
