well.. this one will take awhile its 1/350 so i don't have much room.got any sugestions for the ship?
That's what it sounds like to me. I have a Tiripitz kit that I had build over 30 years ago. It was made to be motorized! She has a single prop shaft, and the turrets would rotate and the barrels elevate as she sailed around the pool. I do not remember adding ballast to the hull. I think that the weight of the motor and the batteries made her float right at the waterline. I do not remember if it was "D or "C" cells that powered her. I guess that I could did through the basement and see what I can find of her. I just saw the hull yesterday, but everything else is still packed away somewhere.
I think I had that kit too. You had linkage that you could put in so it would turn in circles or do figure 8's.
As a kid, I had a USS Yorktown CV-10 model that came with equipment to make it motorized, but I could never get it to work. I think the motor must have been bad.
Circles and figure 8, Yep that is all that she would do! If only I had known about this hobby back then......
A friend of mine had Bismarck, and we would sail both ships. Of course some kids in the area would get the idea of throwing rocks... I will not get into what happened next.
I had a Revell 1/350 Iowa that I coverted to RC using 2 servos. Servo 1 activated the dual rudders. Servo 2 activated 2 push on push off buttons. The first switch was wired to a pair of C cell batteries for the first speed. The second switch was for the 2nd speed. I could activate each speed seperatly or activate both speeds for a combined Full power mode. The funny thing was you could tell I was switching speeds because the port midships would bulge out away from the deck because that's where the switches were located. They were siliconed to the side of the hull. Ahh silicone. The magic adhesive. The model ran off the scale props inboard and scale rudders. Run time was 1 hour but with decent speed for 30 minutes. The model sat at the wateline and weighed about 1/14 lbs. It was very maneuverable and handled very well. Nobody seen anything like it here so it would always attract crowd. The ducks looked gigantic next to it but they never bothered it. Funny story. We had 2 of these models. The other was the New Jersey set up the same way. That one sank in a watershed pond in Nov. It sailed backwards and sank. The turrets was all that survived and floated to shore. This was back in the mid 80's. Yes I am that old.. Prior to this we had the Lindberg Tirptiz and Hood operational. I converted the Tirpitz to RC by cannonbilizing a RC car guts. It worked out find till we deceided to chase it down in a power boat and run it over. We packed it with styrofoam so it would always be veritcal with the bow pointing high out of the water for easy retrieval and we set it off again doing doughnuts and creating monstrous waves from the wake of the boat. We had other models set up for running and RC such as a Revell Blue Devil Destroyer. That was our first true RC model. Top heavy and fast and ships water over the bow. Very unstable. It sank itself when the water flowed up over thebow adn entered the anchor well at the fordeck sinking the model. It nose dived vertically infront of the dock less than 2 ft from us. We fished it out and fished out the parts that fell off. The other plastics were a Revell Gato which ran on penligh batteries and was weighed down with lead. Another was a couple of Super Carrieres the Kitty Hawk Mongram and a Nimitz Revell or Monogram. The Nimitz sailed endlessly out of sight. lost forever. I lost a Hood twice. The lindberg Hood was half sunk and then sank. Ducks sailed over it and dove on it and pulled it apart. I paid a kid 5 bucks to wade out to it ( ankle deep) to get it . I was embarrased. The next time it too ran out of sight in a big lake and was never found. I saw it drift with it's bow pointing upward and it was gone. Never recovered. We also tried a Lusitania in 1/350. We tried a sailing ship adn a 600 or 1/500 scale Tirpitz which was run over and sunk by the Bluedevil destroyer. Eventually we just let the Lindberg Tirptiz run around loose on teh pond and fired at it with a daisy bb gun. Never sank it. I got those pics I should post them.
My Brother had a USS NJ and I had Big Mo. (Non motorized) we built ten water tight compartments in the hull, and added ballast to float at the water line. Then set them adrift in our pond. The we tried to sink each other's boat using our Daisy BB rifle. My brother did not think to seal the top of the bulkheads to the deck.... Yep, He sank first!
I had the motorized Yorktown as well, not to mention a motorized Hood. I never got that Hood to work right, she was always too top heavy. I think those kits were made by Lindberg.
Those kits are still available. I found those pics I mentioned. I couldn't get them scanned last night but I will attempt it again. I think I can get them here Friday at least. Sorry for the delay.
I would hate to see how much those kits are going for today! By the way Curt, lets stay away from any age comments. You are youngster when compared to some us out here. By the 80's I was out of college and completed two tours in the Military....
they're about 10 bucks on ebay hahaha. Yes, I looked them up after reading this thread thinking, ya know, I could do another one of those, only make it RC now!
$10.00!!! I am tempted to check that out!!! Just looked at my Tirpitz hull in the basement. Instead of having the prop shafts in packing tubes, I had filled that groved area in the stern with grease, The prop shaft went through the grease and then conected to the gear housing. The Grease and the prop shaft are still there, but only one blade is left on the prop!!
Just finished checking out E-Bay Yep there is a Tripitz for $9.99 at this point in time. And a Bismarck for 79.99!!!
