I am curently running;

    1- Coast Guard Patrol          (built in 1977, and still running strong)

    1- Fletcher class destroyer modified to carry 1 sea plane  (3 feet long)

    1- WW II Boston class light cruiser (4 feet 2 inches long).

    1- Tug using a servo as a motor (2 feet long)

    1- Pleasure boat (2 inches long the smallest in the club).

    1- Bismark under construction (5 feet 7 inches long).

 

My interestes are R/C boating and builting model boats, spacecraft and cars.

I also collect rare and old Sci-fi models and toys.

 

I mainly collect Star Trek modles and "Battle of the Planets" modles.

 

 

 

 

Model boats of all types.  Right now I'm into sail and electric. I'm running the following:

 

1. 1/16 scale, scratch built, 65' MKIII Patrol Boat. ( 3) Speed 600  BB motors, 12V.  Working 40MM cannon that fires 22cal blanks.

 

2.  1/144 scale, scratch built,USS SAIPAN LHA-2.  Working anchor, elevator. helo, whistle, radars, overboard discharge.  6 foot long.

 

3.  1 meter kit sailboat "SEAWIND"  Excellent boat!

 

4.  " STAR 45" scratch built sailboat. Beautiful and fun!

 

5.  3 foot, scratch built, river"PUSHER" boat.  3 working water monitors. (little man pees over the side).

 

6.  18 inch version of above. No water monitors or little man.

 

7.  1/12 scale, scratch built, model of Navy MINI ATC 36' .  Has working water jets, ramp and lights.

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8.  Electric "CRACKERBOX"

 

9.  1/12 scale, scratch built,  model of Navy Admiral's 40' Barge. In progress.

 

10. 1/16 scale model, scratch built navy lcm-8, in progress. Now finished and looking good.

 

 

Interest: Power Boating/R.C. Boating

 

 

Boats Running:

                     

                     1.  Traxis Blast

                     2.  Gamma Ray

                     3.  Shelly Foss Tugboat

SS United States

Hamilton

Crocket

Irene B.

 

Increasing attendance at the lakes. Running in different lakes.

 

See our Group grow to at least Seventy + members in next Three years.

I love to play with anything that is remote control . My current running model is of the PT-109 kit by Lindberg. I am now working on 140'X40' river tug in 1/48 scale . This will be my first attempt at scratch modeling. Hope it floats!!! If not atleast I will provide some laughs.

 

Hi, I'm Rich Warder, and I live in Suffolk, Va. I started building Radio Control Models in 1985 . When the Navy brought back into commission the Battleships, I said to myself , I've got to have a model of a Battleship! I had no idea of how I was going to build it or any plans! But I did have some pictures of Battleships and I did have some ship building experience in the Navy. I got some pine shelving wood and cut each board to conform to the shape of a BB. After many months of cutting and sanding I had something that resembled a BB hull. I had Sore and cut fingers, but I kept on and put all the motors and electronics in and put it in the "POND" in South Norfolk and it ran!!! Was I elated! After a month I thought I need a Carrier to run with the BB. So I started another hull using the same techniques from the BB, only this time I had PLANS! After I finally got the hull finished, and more sanding done, I said there has to be an easy method of building wood hulls! I found a book on model boats in a Hobby Store and there was the answer to my boat hull Construction. The CV, was the Coral Sea and it ran sea trials just fine! The rest is history as I have since built 5 more model ships using the plank on frame methodand currently have a WW II Liberty Ship under construction which should be ready this summer!  Some of the other models I have are a WW II LST,  WW II Troop Transport ship and a WW II cv, the Lexington. I had the carrier Forrestal but Decommissioned it four years later with a saber saw and converted it into 5 different deck configurations interchangeable that fit on the hull, a cargo deck, tanker deck, great lakes ore carrier, a container ship and another type cargo ship.

rc warship combat,naval history,sea battles.

 

currently running:

 

Uss Iowa  (swampworks kit) 

lenght: 74 1/2 inch

weight (running ) 44 lbs

powerplant: 2 Marx Decaperms (6v) with factory 1:2.75 gears and 2 inch 4 bladed props . (inner shafts only)

 

this model puls a verry nice bow and sternwave  and is as stable as a rock even when making a turn at her full speed (turningcircle about 10 ft) she has 7 working bb guns and 1 bilgepump as rc warshipcombat ship, but she also has 2 smokegenerators,a shipsbell,a siren and a tapedeck playing "reveille,Anchors aweigh, and the star spangled banner.

 

Hms Warspite

lenght 53 inch

weight 30 lbs

powerplant 2 550/600's with graupner 1:3 gearboxes driving both inner shafts

 

my 1st rcwarship moden and with a hull made by ralph coles a superb slugger. she is slower then iowa but more agile and carries 4 guns and a pump.

 

 

Hr Ms Gouden Leeuw

lenght: 64.5 inch

weight: unknown at present

powerplant: 2 graupner 505 motors driving both inner shafts or 1 505 driving both inner shafts thru gearbox

 

under construction from a Scharnhorst class hull.

this ship was never build as the yards where still being prepared for keel laying when the netherlands (my homecountry) was invaded and occupied.

the 3 ships of this class where designed in cooperation with a german design firm and there hull is nearly identicall to the battlecruisers of the "Scharnhorst" class, the main difference lies in armour protection,superstructure,secondairy arnament and speed. these ships where designed as "Cruiser-Killers"

 

launchdate model .. early 2004 

there are no modelplans or even warfplans available of these 3 sisterships.

 

 

Hr Ms Tromp/heemskerck

 

hullplug under construction  overall lenght  36 inch  beam 3 3/8 inch

 

HMAS Australia

hull arrived .. awaiting superstructure plans as she had a different superstructure to other ships of the "Kent" (county) class

 

Sir Kay

small 1/142 conversion of a revell trawlerkit  uses a microservo for rudder and a wrecked servo as drive and esc  runs on 5 1.2 v 180 mah  ni-mh from an old mobile phone.

 

plugs for the sir kay and 2 other  royal navy classes will be created next year  ( Militairy class, Dance Class,Round Table class)

 

Krijn

Currently working on a Gearing Class Destroyer 1/92 scale the USS Herbert J Thomas DDR-833 and a Gearing Class FRAMP I Destroyer.

 

Working on a WWII DUKW, the basic kit has arrived and am waiting for the land and water drive units.

I scratch build primarily in 1:48 scale and do commissioned models for river companies. Models I have operational now is a Vac-U-Tow boat JOE E, 87' towboat JOEY CAROL, 110' towboat JANET CAROL, 96' auto/ passenger ferry WM. MARKET, and a 195' AMCLYDE CRANE.

 

Model I am working on now is a Dravo Viking class 140' x 42' towboat. My future builds are a articulated tug/ barge unit, the new Coast Guard ice breaker Mackinaw, an Anhydrous Ammonia barge, and excursion sternwheeler Homer Smith. My models can be viewed at http://www.towboatjoe.com

 

I am currently operating the Scottish Fishing Trawler, EILEEN  and a one design sailboat, NIRVANA.  I am planning to begin a scratch built tugboat.  I like to build in 1/24 scale.

 

My interest is building and operating these craft with others who are engaged in the same hobby.