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11 September 2008, 13:26
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Country: UK - England
Town: Dorset & Hants
Boat name: Streaker/Orange
Make: Avon/Ribcraft
Length: 4m +
Engine: 50Yam/25 Mariner
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Winter project - radio controlled ( model) RIB
As its heading towards the end of the summer ( if it ever arrived ), I'm trying to think about things to keep me busy over the winter . ONe of these is to build a small ( ie model) Radio controled RIB, but I cant find or see any kind kit etc that is made by anyone - anyone ever seen or heard of somehting like this?
Really I want to make a mini version of my own boat as its somehting I used to be 'in to' as kid. Not sure if this should be here or in other forum.
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11 September 2008, 14:50
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Member
Country: UK - Scotland
Town: Glasgow
Boat name: Riberty
Make: xs 650
Length: 6m +
Engine: suzuki 175
MMSI: 235063328
Join Date: Aug 2007
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Plans are available - although i haven't seen them so cant coment on how good they are.
http://www.myhobbystore.com/Products...2-2867fea74cac
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11 September 2008, 14:52
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Member
Country: UK - Scotland
Town: Glasgow
Boat name: Riberty
Make: xs 650
Length: 6m +
Engine: suzuki 175
MMSI: 235063328
Join Date: Aug 2007
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There is a company called Graupner that make jet drives
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11 September 2008, 14:56
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Member
Country: UK - England
Town: Dorset & Hants
Boat name: Streaker/Orange
Make: Avon/Ribcraft
Length: 4m +
Engine: 50Yam/25 Mariner
Join Date: Apr 2007
Posts: 5,551
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I'm looking ( if it exisits ) for something with preformed tubes ( the hardest bit to make) and then use a scale OB on the back. Coudl put a scale jet driev in & a fake OB.
I'll take a look at the plans & see .
Thanks
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11 September 2008, 16:02
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RIBnet supporter
Country: UK - England
Town: Rutland
Length: no boat
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Blackroady
As its heading towards the end of the summer ( if it ever arrived ), I'm trying to think about things to keep me busy over the winter . ONe of these is to build a small ( ie model) Radio controled RIB, but I cant find or see any kind kit etc that is made by anyone - anyone ever seen or heard of somehting like this?
Really I want to make a mini version of my own boat as its somehting I used to be 'in to' as kid. Not sure if this should be here or in other forum.
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A model Bananashark
http://www.bananasharkracing.co.uk/models/index.htm
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11 September 2008, 17:43
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Member
Country: UK - England
Boat name: Angel-B
Make: Ex Y boat
Length: 3m +
Engine: Suzuki 9.9HP
Join Date: Apr 2007
Posts: 594
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There's a model Atlantic 21 here:
http://www.westbourne-model.co.uk/lesro-Model-Boats.htm
Not cheap though.
Cheers
Chris
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16 September 2008, 12:01
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Member
Country: UK - England
Town: yorkshire
Boat name: little vicky
Make: avon ex RNLI
Length: 3m +
Engine: tohatsu
Join Date: Mar 2008
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how about a home built one made from old plywood wardrobe and some bits of foam pipe lagging ,and a couple battery powered out boards from a cheap toy shop total cost £6.oop,just scaled up some photos and made the hull first from card to get the profile right then made the hull to the scale of the sponson diameter which is foam pipe lagging ,finished up making two one for my son and another for the local rnli fundraising branch its easier to fit it in a room or hall than the real thing , the two end cones were made from old rocket cones from bonfire night ,
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16 September 2008, 12:04
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Member
Country: Other
Town: Principalite d'Chaos
Boat name: The Nashers Revenge!
Make: Windsor Brothers
Length: 6m +
Engine: Optimax 225
MMSI: "Mmmmm SI" she said!
Join Date: Jan 2004
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Quote:
Originally Posted by m chappelow
how about a home built one made from old plywood wardrobe and some bits of foam pipe lagging ,and a couple battery powered out boards from a cheap toy shop total cost £6.oop
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WOW
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16 September 2008, 13:10
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Member
Country: UK - England
Town: Dorset & Hants
Boat name: Streaker/Orange
Make: Avon/Ribcraft
Length: 4m +
Engine: 50Yam/25 Mariner
Join Date: Apr 2007
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That is awsome ! Thats exactly the sort of thing I would love to do to look like my own boat. What is the hull made out of ? That I think must be the hardest bit . Did you cover the pipe lagging with anything to give it a shiny surface?
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16 September 2008, 14:02
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Member
Country: UK - Wales
Town: swansea
Boat name: Too Blue
Make: BLANK
Length: 8m +
Engine: Suzuki DT225
Join Date: Mar 2004
Posts: 12,791
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That's incredible - you should start selling them - I reckon you would have about 100 customers from this site alone!!!
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16 September 2008, 14:26
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Member
Country: UK - England
Town: Wild West
Boat name: No Boat
Make: No Boat
Length: under 3m
Join Date: Jan 2008
Posts: 5,304
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Quote:
Originally Posted by m chappelow
how about a home built one made from old plywood wardrobe and some bits of foam pipe lagging ,and a couple battery powered out boards from a cheap toy shop total cost £6.oop,just scaled up some photos and made the hull first from card to get the profile right then made the hull to the scale of the sponson diameter which is foam pipe lagging ,finished up making two one for my son and another for the local rnli fundraising branch its easier to fit it in a room or hall than the real thing , the two end cones were made from old rocket cones from bonfire night ,
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To echo 'Nasher' Wow! you are wasteing your talents,Matt H and I were saying only the other day [Matt is a bit of a military model buff-usualy life size though!!]
there would be a market for scale models of popular [and maybe not so popular]R.I.Bs that you could possibely customise with things like tube colour,seating,ect to be a fair representation of your own craft.
I can imagine lots of R.I.B owners being seduced by a 2 foot version of thier,Scorpion,Osprey,Ribcraft,Searider...or whatever!!
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16 September 2008, 14:46
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Member
Country: UK - England
Town: Dorset & Hants
Boat name: Streaker/Orange
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Length: 4m +
Engine: 50Yam/25 Mariner
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So - if there is still a wooden hull around - why not get out the foam , make up a mold & start banging out hulls for a sensible price ? ( Either GRP - like the banana shark ones, or if someone has a resonable vacumm forming machine they could just be done over the wooden hull)I'd by 2 at least - then we can all go & buy some pipe lagging/ paint & have scale versions of out own boats- stick the bggest motor we can in them & race them ( much like the real ones ! )
Got to be someone on here who can make a few quid out of all of us by doing this ?
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16 September 2008, 15:03
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Member
Country: UK - England
Town: yorkshire
Boat name: little vicky
Make: avon ex RNLI
Length: 3m +
Engine: tohatsu
Join Date: Mar 2008
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for the hull i just made up a dummy from card so that i could get the shapes right then made the hull from really thin ply wood from an old wardrobe ,with transom from a much thicker peice then all stuck together with glass fibre resin from a car shop ,i just used 2 formers or ribs to keep the shape of the hull and for the floor to fix to ,then gave the whole lot a couple of coats of old marine topside paint. first thing to do is see what foam or pipe that you are going to use for your sponsons then try scale the hull to fit ,just try experimenting with a small hull at first using card and selotape then that will give you some idea how to go on ,mine was a bit fiddlely more than a normal rib hull as the atlantic hull has a flat on the keel so that it can be run onto a beach .
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16 September 2008, 17:20
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Member
Country: UK - England
Town: yorkshire
Boat name: little vicky
Make: avon ex RNLI
Length: 3m +
Engine: tohatsu
Join Date: Mar 2008
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just found my sons boat he plays with and a few more pics ,its looking a bit rough now ,the pipe lagging is 6cm diam and the boat length is 80 cm ,think the old y class needs a revamp too.might have a go at making a model of that next.
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16 September 2008, 19:38
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Member
Country: UK - England
Boat name: Angel-B
Make: Ex Y boat
Length: 3m +
Engine: Suzuki 9.9HP
Join Date: Apr 2007
Posts: 594
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Quote:
Originally Posted by m chappelow
how about a home built one made from old plywood wardrobe and some bits of foam pipe lagging ,and a couple battery powered out boards from a cheap toy shop total cost £6.oop,just scaled up some photos and made the hull first from card to get the profile right then made the hull to the scale of the sponson diameter which is foam pipe lagging ,finished up making two one for my son and another for the local rnli fundraising branch its easier to fit it in a room or hall than the real thing , the two end cones were made from old rocket cones from bonfire night ,
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That's fantastic! I wish I had the time, patience and ability to make a model as good as that.
Chris
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16 September 2008, 19:44
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Member
Country: UK - England
Boat name: Angel-B
Make: Ex Y boat
Length: 3m +
Engine: Suzuki 9.9HP
Join Date: Apr 2007
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Quote:
Originally Posted by m chappelow
first thing to do is see what foam or pipe that you are going to use for your sponsons then try scale the hull to fit
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Somewhere at my Mum's I have the plans for a SIB - IIRC, the sponsons were 'real', made out of rubber (neoprene?) sheet. I can't remember how you were supposed to inflate them - next time we visit her I'll see if I can dig them out.
Unfortunately I never got very far with the build - pocket money didn't stretch that far, and by the time I had real money I had discovered motorcycles
Cheers
Chris
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19 September 2008, 13:17
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Member
Country: UK - England
Town: Salcombe, Devon, UK
Boat name: BananaShark
Make: BananaShark
Length: 10m +
Engine: 2xYanmar 260 diesels
Join Date: Mar 2003
Posts: 4,225
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A couple of others we've done!
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Originally Posted by Zippy
When a boat looks that good who needs tubes!!!
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19 September 2008, 23:28
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Member
Country: Sweden
Town: Stockholm
Make: KR7
Length: 7m +
Engine: Evinrude 150 H.O
Join Date: Aug 2005
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Originally Posted by Cookee
A couple of others we've done! ![big grin](https://www.rib.net/forum/images/smilies/biggrin.gif)
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Looks very good. Do you have the r/c banana for sale...
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20 September 2008, 13:32
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Originally Posted by joakimhansson
Looks very good. Do you have the r/c banana for sale...
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just found this
avalable from http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.d...ksid=p3907.m29
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20 September 2008, 20:03
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Member
Country: UK - England
Town: south devon
Make: humber+flatacraft
Length: 5m +
Engine: mercury 60hp+15hp
Join Date: Jun 2008
Posts: 61
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Quote:
Originally Posted by m chappelow
how about a home built one made from old plywood wardrobe and some bits of foam pipe lagging ,and a couple battery powered out boards from a cheap toy shop total cost £6.oop,just scaled up some photos and made the hull first from card to get the profile right then made the hull to the scale of the sponson diameter which is foam pipe lagging ,finished up making two one for my son and another for the local rnli fundraising branch its easier to fit it in a room or hall than the real thing , the two end cones were made from old rocket cones from bonfire night ,
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My son was so excited when he saw your fantastic RNLI model and he has started making one this evening.He loves ribbing and model boats and wants to try and make a model rib.I'm not allowed to help so It'll be interesting to see how it turns out.
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