hover Tim

I am trting to find some 1/16 scale deails such as life boat boxes fuel tanks and the like antone know a good sourvce for this sort of thing

cyclops2

We all have to start doing our own scratch building sometime.

You can do a BOX. You KNOW you can cut a box. Just try it.

I NEVER did scratchbuilding before I did the boat below. The whole boat is scratch built of 1/8" Birch plywood.

Try it. no harm done. Try it again. Much better.

hover Tim

i agree a straight forwaerd box is easy but this is a bit more illaborate see picture

cyclops2

Do you have somebody with a drill or drill press?

Take a piece of foam, drill a hole for a 1/4" piece of dowel rod to be glued in the hole. You only need 3" sticking out of the foam to put in the drill chuck. Rough sand the shape on a SLOW__ SLOW speed. Safety. Final sand it. ..Then cut strips of ceral box into the strips and glue them on.

It will look great. I know it will work. Do it twice if you are picky.

You will never stop thinking of ways of scratch building once you do your first piece.

My PTB torpedos are a ton of work to make. Estes plastic nose cone--body tube-- a very pointed nose cone-- 1/8" thich balsa cut to the fins shapes-- spare props.
Boy , am I tired, it took 15 minutes to do 4 of them.

hover Tim

nice idea will try this at the weekend

rye

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hi
this boat was all scratch build and i use my sons legos and even a small table legs for the teopeo tubes look around if you have kids there a lot of great scale thing you can use on your boat have fun thats the game , rye
http://www.rcuniverse.com/forum/m_4930049/tm.htm ( look though the hole forum) both pages