That looks much much much much better. What did you fix/change? And you've learned a valuable lesson about avoiding sticks in the props I see
Definitely not a stealth cruiser with all that racket but she performs very well. At least until you tried to route a groove in that submerged log! ST
The only thing I changed was to file that flat spot on the shaft. That must have been sucking up my speed. Can't quite say it's the quietest ship out there..... Actually, that was a stick, but the same idea. Hey, Steve, what days are you planning on coming to NATS, or are you doing the whole week? I was thinking on coming down Tuesday and Wednesday to see the most battling.
I'll be there Monday and Tuesday. Monday for the speed testing and afternoon battle. Tuesday for both battles. Maybe I'll catch a cold and have to call out the rest of the week????
You don't look at all well Steve, I am sure you are coming down with something. Mogadoritis perhaps! See ya next week Barry
Yes, you look very pale in your picture. Could be Mogadoritis, hmmmm, or maybe he got bit by a "NAT" and he has Shipfluenza. Either way, looking forward to next week. Might be taking Suffren up to the pond this evening to run her around and hopefully dodge those nasty sticks.
I did take Suffren out the other day. Hit a few more sticks, but luckily they didn't make me lose power like before. Had a lot of fun today, but it wasn't had by driving Suffren around, it was had by building superstructure. Yes, I had fun building SS. Sounds strange, but I am strange. Anywho, here are some photos of today's progress. I decided to build the SS the way it was when she was first completed. Simple lines, but looks nice. Enjoy,
Thanks! It's a 45-70 slug, lot of fun to shoot. I had it on there as a weight to keep everything where it was supposed to be. Oh, I forgot to mention, all the SS in the photo, including the piece of foam on the stern, weighs 2.10oz. I think that is good.
Ahh you should have come up to Nates a few weeks back. He has a range in his front yard and a bunch of toys in the safe we got to play with between battles. Light on top is always right. Now you just need a couple guns in the boat and you will be golden. Do you have the room in the stern?
Sounded fun. Yup, room in the stern right behind the steering servo. Tomorrow I'm going to try to make an aluminum mount for the guns. Get them mounted, wire the pump, run the Co2 lines, and attach the MAV-3 valve to a servo, and I should have a fighting ship.
Putting SS on is fun. Which is funny coming from me, given my history of cereal box SS's. Do it up, it'll make your ship look awesome, and that's never a bad thing.
There is nothing I like better than a detailed boat. Maybe that's why I find myself just staring at Stokomoto's beautiful ships. The pump is wired and turns on with a flick of a switch. My main motivation for getting the pump wired is because on Friday I'm going to an absolutely beautiful place to drive a boat around. Take a look. That is a creek about an hour north of me. Wanted to get the pump running so I don't have to empty the water out of Suffren as often so I can get more run time.
Ah, but looks can be deceiving, my friend. Look up the definition for creek. The definition for a creek is a stream, brook, or minor tributary of a river. That is a tributary of the Susquehanna River.
Doesn't matter what you call it. By the angle of those banks, it looks like a bottomless pit that no sunk boat returns from. Good thing you have your pump installed. Before running in deep water, flood your boat to the brim and make sure your pump still turns on and pumps the boat out. Steve
