Confederate Blockade Runner.

[785boats]

Hi .
My name is Paul Brooking. I live in Brisbane Australia. Yes, the Colonies.
I'm building my first paddler, the Blockade Runner by Glyn Guest in Model Boats (October 2006).
It's semi scale & I've doubled the size of the original. The progress hs been posted on R/C Groups as a build thread.
I have a few questions about scale details & it was suggested that I try this site. I should have tried sooner. What a brilliant site, I must say.
Where would be the best place to post the questions, mainly about anchors, rigging, railings, etc.
Heres a link to show the current status for anyone interested.
  http://www.rcgroups.com/forums/showthread.php?t=773432
Best regards.
Paul.

[Eddy Matthews]

Welcome to Paddleducks Paul..... A double sized Glyn Guest Phantom sounds nice

Post your questions in the "Construction" area, and we'll see if someone can help....

[derekwarner_decoy]

Hi PD's & welcome Paul.......have read the comments from the RCGROUP site...the build looks very interesting as typical of a GG plan, however with respect, 6 mm balsa sheet hull shell with dope & powder will offer little resistance to anything .... - have you estimated the displacement of your 1.5M vessel?

Keep us posted...as we are now something like 10 OZ PD members out of 1000 world wide ..... regards

[Timo2]

Hi Paul  ( 785boats )

 Welcome form 1 newbie to 1 newbie my first model for 45years was a standard size Phantom Paddler . The king size look very good on RCGROUP site ,the small P/paddler only likes very good weather !!. back to the slipway and dry dock ( Spare Bedroom ) to adjust ballast & C.G. will try again soon. .

 Timo2 
   

[785boats]

Thanks for the welcome. Thanks for the replies.
Eddy mathews.
I'll post the questions where you suggested & see what happens. Thanks.
 
derekwarner-decoy.
I know tha balsa is not the toughest medium around these days, but I wanted to build it 'old school' style. Besides. I had enough lying around & one of the themes of this build was to build it with what I have in the workshop. I just won't run into things  . But dings in balsa are easy to fix. As to the amount of lead required ? Don't know for sure, but my 1.8m Bismarck took 12kg. So around that mark I guess. Possibly a bit more. A couple more coats of paint on the hull & it's test time. Then we'll find out.

Timo2
Your post came in while I was typing my reply. Thanks for the welcome. Are there any pictures of yours in action? Would be good to see.
Cheers.
Paul.

[Hankwilliams]

Hello Paul,


I have built the blockade runner "Hope" in 1:48 scale, the model ist steamdriven, it's lenght is 186 cm. The engine is a Regner with 14 mm bore and 18 mm stroke.
With this engine the model has a fantastic performance, it is very fast, so as blockade runners must be.

The hulls of all blockade runners were very sharp and therefore good of flow, in connection with the low superstructure you get a satisfactory stability. This models are good suitable to drive with a steamengine.


Greetings

Thomas

[785boats]

Hi Thomas .
Sounds like an impressive model, especially at that scale.
If you have any pictures of Hope, I would love to see them.
Best regards.
Paul.

[Walter Snowdon]

   hi Paul and a belated welcome. There is nothing wrong with balsa as a building materiel -it is my favourite materiel for hull buliding. properly treated it is strong, flexible and easily worked. Finish it like the old aeromodellers, a couple of layers of tissue doped on and you get a lovely hard finish.  regards, walter.

[785boats]

Thanks for your words of encouragement Walter.
Balsa is so under rated these days. I love the stuff.
Red_Hamish was kind enough to post a few pics for me on a thread I started in the "construction" section of this site.
They are of the maiden voyage. You may be interested to see them.
Kind regards.
Paul.

[chas]

Hi, I'm new on here but couldn't resist your post. Like you I like to build "old style" and I love balsa. Some of the models I have built have been fairly large, and have lasted fine. To seal the interior I always paint fibreglass resin on all the wood, this gives strength, keeps the water away, and resists warping later. For the outside you could do worse than dope an old pair of ladies tites to the surface, make sure you take your wife's leg out first though. Quite a few people do this I think.
 Chas

[Eddy Matthews]

For the outside you could do worse than dope an old pair of ladies tites to the surface, make sure you take your wife's leg out first though. Quite a few people do this I think.
 Chas

How do you know about other people taking his wifes tights off Chas? 

[785boats]

I'd like to know about that too.

[steamboatmodel]

As long as its not my wife I don't want to know.
Regards,
Gerald