This Lobster boat, is another work of art built by Steve. It's about 38'' long. He started with a fiber glass hull and the deck, wheelhouse etc. are scratch built. Power comes from a 800 series brushed motor. Every light works! The wheelhouse fully equipped, radio, radar screens, throttles etc. The details on deck speaks themselves, from the brooms to the handmade rods. Some of pieces are hand made, others repurposed and some found in craft stores.
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Today I introduce you to Steve, one of the more prolific builders in our club. He is a former train modeler who ‘converted’ to rc boats many years ago and never looked back. He is very detail-oriented and his boats reflect this when completed. The amount of workmanship and finding the parts, or making the parts and having them look scale is very impressive. He has never owned a boat that he did not put his twist on.
Today I share with you his conversion of the Bancroft LCM3 landing craft (sold by Action RC), to a U.S. Army Corps of Engineers work vessel/buoy tender. Aside from the obvious, it has scratch built buoys and crane, it also has working lights and working radar. Feel free to leave a comment. |