Showing posts with label Miss-Chief. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Miss-Chief. Show all posts
Friday, August 15, 2025

Radio control holiday

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  With only me in the car, I decided that there would be space to take a couple of RC vehicles on holiday.  Firstly, the Sand Scorcher. I li...
Thursday, June 07, 2018

Vintage Speedboat in Model Boats magazine

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July's issue of Model Boats magazine sees my vintage speedboat Miss-chief appear on pages 66-68. Since the kit isn't available,...
Tuesday, January 23, 2018

Brass prop miss-take

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A little more on-water action for Miss-Cheif but with a slight difference, I'd managed to buy a brass 2-blade propeller for her.  ...
Monday, January 22, 2018

Miss-chief at speed

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Adding a propeller makes a huge different to my little speedboat! Miss-chief still isn't the fastest model on the water, but she...
Sunday, December 31, 2017

Miss-chief on the water

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Let's end 2017 with a finished project. After a few bumps along the way, my vintage speedboat, "Miss-Chief" is ready.  ...
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Friday, December 29, 2017

Paint your driver

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There's not much to "come alive" on this boat, but what there is is all here. I think it was the resin-head driver figure...
Thursday, December 28, 2017

Slow painting

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I can be a very impatient modeller. Sometimes this gets me in to trouble when paint or glue aren't given sufficient time to dry. Wo...
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Tuesday, December 19, 2017

Magnetic attraction

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Not an exciting photo this one I'm afraid, but it is an important step towards completion of the speedboat. I've been pondering...
Tuesday, November 28, 2017

Speedboat testing

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It was with some trepidation that I put the vintage speedboat back on the water. If I'd not done a good job sealing up the back of th...
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Thursday, November 23, 2017

Big brass rudder fitted.

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Taking a deep breath, I hacked the rudder support box off the back of my vintage speedboat. Reaching the point of no return, I sawed it o...
Tuesday, November 21, 2017

Brass rudder

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If I'm going to mess with the speedboat, I might as well do it properly. And since the feature I like least is the ugly rudder-sup...
Friday, November 10, 2017

Much better on the water

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Sorry for the fuzzy photo - steering and taking pictures isn't easy, especially when the boat nips along at speed. All my efforts r...
Tuesday, November 07, 2017

Rip it out and start again

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It might not look like much, the getting the speedboat to this stage took loads of work and quite a bit of nerve. On the basis that the...
Tuesday, October 10, 2017

Try, try again

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With things not looking good, it was time to spend a bit more money. First, a new prop - something in red this time because red things g...
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Monday, October 09, 2017

First sea trials

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  Down to the lake with the speedboat for its first proper sail. I hadn't wanted to do this in the bath as I hope it will fly away ...
Friday, October 06, 2017

Building a battery box

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The biggest problem with this kit? I've never seen one built up. In fact this is the only example of this model I've ever se...
Thursday, October 05, 2017

Brushless motor

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Fast boats used to mean an IC motor with all the attendant noise and pollution. Then we moved to electric power but the motors were s...
Friday, September 29, 2017

No longer rudderless

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Starting at the back end with the job that's taken loads of head-scratching. My plan involved fitting a big rudder through the rear e...
Thursday, September 28, 2017

Vintage speedboat

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Another kit from the pile, this time a vintage speedboat - well it's a change from all the toy trains. The kit is from George T...
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