Showing posts with label Pilot Boat - Speedline Kit. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Pilot Boat - Speedline Kit. Show all posts
Sunday, March 20, 2022

New boat battery makes the difference

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  New battery ordered from Component Shop on Sunday - Tuesday morning, new 3300mAh, 7.2v battery drops through letterbox. Excellent service...
Sunday, February 27, 2022

Pilot Boat at "speed"

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The camera never lies?  It does in this case. You'd think my Pilot Boat was racing along, blasting everything out of the way with it...
Thursday, February 07, 2013

Pilot Boat in Model Boats magazine

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It's taken a while, too long to be honest, but the Pilot Boat now appears in Model Boats Magazine. It's not entirely my fault, the...
Saturday, October 20, 2012

Pilot Boat launched

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The Pilot Boat has launched! On the water, it's absolutely fantastic. At just over 1/2 power the nose starts to rise. Got to 3/4 an...
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Friday, October 05, 2012

Pilot Boat Painting Disasters - Part 4, Done and dusted

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Filling in yesterdays lines with silver paint went well. Even a thin line is easy to paint up to and the slight ridge of dry paint tends ...
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Thursday, October 04, 2012

Pilot Boat Painting Disasters - Part 3, Making it better

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If you learn more from making mistakes than getting things right, I've learned and learned good. Once the Pilot Boat superstructure wa...
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Tuesday, October 02, 2012

Pilot Boat painting disasters - Part 2. Taking it off again

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So, there I am with a Pilot Boat superstructure covered in paint. Bad paint. Plan A - Sand the duff areas and re-paint them. I'm sure ...
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Monday, October 01, 2012

Pilot Boat painting disasters - Part 1

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Listen to your own advice. That's what I should remember. It's good advice and I do know what I'm talking about sometimes. When ...
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Saturday, September 15, 2012

Adding slop adjustability

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Setting up the drive train in a model boat is one of the most important steps during construction. The motor shaft and propshaft should be i...
Saturday, September 08, 2012

Chucky handrail construction with confidence

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One of the benefits of my boat and railway modelling is the chance to "cross pollinate" the skills from one branch of the hobby to...
Friday, September 07, 2012

Holding the superstructure down

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When I plonked the Pilot Boat superstructure down on its deck, all wasn't well. The join between the two was poor to the point of bei...
Tuesday, August 28, 2012

First test for the Pilot Boat

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With control issues sorted, it was down to the lake with the Pilot Boat. After a quick check that everything was working, I placed the mo...
Monday, August 27, 2012

Boat won't go backward !

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When I last blogged the Pilot boat, I mentioned some issues with the speed control - an Mtroniks unit of a type I used many times. This one ...
Tuesday, August 14, 2012

Motor, servo, battery and radio

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Maybe I'm not the cleverest boat modeller in the world. I don't understand propellers or motors. Making a slow boat go slowly (or sc...
Monday, August 13, 2012

Pilot Boat

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In my marine modelling career, there are several types of vessel I've always fancied building. Lifeboats form the bulk of the list bu...