its my STINGRAY…fishtail craft..

[aquaplanerParticipant @aquaplaner]

Friends..within this age, i completed many fishtail and rowing crafts..and this is some different, in its shape…as usual, i started with thermocol..

i finished her with PU putty, to reduce weight…

fishtail driver mechanism..it is made from a toy car bear box..

[aquaplanerParticipant @aquaplaner]

scratch built fishtail craft…

[aquaplanerParticipant @aquaplaner]

showing construction..

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test time..see the mechanism here…http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oHoRkyYQsrE

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look..how extra ordinary she is…and see the running here…

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A_17SdzeIkI

 

look all of my Friends..how easy to make a craft our own…

 

[ashley needhamParticipant @ashleyneedham69188]

Aqua, like this one. It is the sort of thing I might build, as being different.

 

I do like your use of the foam to produce hulls. A very easy way or producing some fairly complex shapes. What do you use to glue the foam together, or to other materials.

 

I may have missed it but you must cover the foam with something? or is it just paint.

 

Ashley

[Len OchiltreeParticipant @lenochiltree67043]

Hi Asley,

Krishna is a very fast builder and a wizard with homemade ESCs and Transmitters.

Has a big fan club over on ” Mayhem “.

 

Len.

[aquaplanerParticipant @aquaplaner]

Ashley..i started making models from my child hood..and from boyhood it became more serious..but materials was a great head ache to me..i tried to make many models from wood..as i am a boy, using chiesels and havy tools are not allowded..so i turned to card boards,papers..and yes thermocol..(expanded polystrene, that found in TV and applience packages..)..you can make any shape..any size..as i completed my carrier in to 4.7 meter..all in scale..its too easy when compared to wood work..and weight is a critical factor..even a 2.7 meter craft weighs mere 6 kilos..so easy to work..i will add a posting that to make a hull from thermocol..cool..and once you mastered it..you never look back..crafts everywhere…unstopable…

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