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Hi-Models very large ESC
I had adapted for water
cooling some years ago,
when I built the boat, which
had given excellent service
had long since gone out of
production. Without any
tools or work area the boat
has remained unusable for
quite a time. It is a good
thing that we will soon
be moving into a larger
property with sufficient
workshop space to make
the adjustments necessary
to get the boat going again.
One can never become
complacent when model
boats are involved.
This edition of the
magazine has plenty for
those interested in scratch-
building their own models.
The free plan is of the
24 ft working boat Tern
and should make up into
a very interesting running
model. The article on
the Chimaera Pierson describes the scratch-building of a rather
beautiful traditional British Pilot cutter in 1/33 scale, and for those
who prefer to build from kits there is the building of the Deans
Marine HMS Tanatside which also gives a lot of useful tips which
can be applied to many models.
If you are interested in the story behind different types of craft
then the Gravel Boats of the Taw and Torridge gives an insight
into the hard labour necessary to make a profit with these boats.
There are also some details on building a replica model. The second
part of Warships in Plastic features the models available for the
period from Per-Dreadnoughts through to the Super-Dreadnoughts
together with the history of the original ship.
All the above plus the regular articles makes this an interesting
and useful magazine for all marine modellers.
Wishing you a very successful boating season.Chris Saunders
MMIIn the February edition I described how my wife and I had
downsized to a small cottage in South Wales and so I read Nev
Wade’s article on moving house with considerable empathy. His
humorous description of the removal men’s reaction to the shed full
of models exactly reflected what happened when I first showed our
remover my workshop. Luckily my models are fewer in number and
easier to transport than Neville’s complex sailing boats, however, I
still ended up moving and storing them myself.
Despite the lack of space or workshop I have managed to run
boats most weekends over the winter months. I simply charged
the batteries for my fast electric boat and had an exciting session
down at the lake. I did have a couple of mishaps where the craft
ended upside down but after some drying out everything worked
fine. Thus I expected the same service to continue indefinitely.
Unfortunately this was not to be the case as the other day the boat
suddenly stopped after about 5 minutes of racing. On getting it into
the side and opening the hatches nothing seemed amiss. However,
on unsealing the electronics enclosure I was met by a pall of black
smoke; something had gone seriously wrong. It soon became clear
that the ESC had given up the ghost.
I assumed that finding a replacement ESC was simply a matter
of affordability, however, once you put the following criteria;
water cooled, 120 A, HV (running on eight LiPo cells), the choice
becomes very small. In fact if I took into consideration ‘In Stock’
and was not prepared to wait for delivery from Hong Kong then
there was almost no choice. To further add to my difficulties, theMMI generally publishes commissioned
articles, but will consider other contributions
including news items and factual articles. It is
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