The reason for GB's absence lately.........

I am very aware that I have not been very 'active' on here lately, but I do have a genuine reason........

A number of years ago (around 4, nearly 5 I think) I decided I wanted to build an r/c boat.  Not just any boat, but a particular boat that I travelled upon on my first holiday to Europe in 1973.



Now.....an r/c model of this boat doesn't exist, so if I wanted one I would have to design and build it myself.....

Once I had started down this road, and word got around various model boat forums, a few others liked what was happening and intimated that they would like one too!!! Consequently, it was decided that I would design the model as a kit that could be marketed.

Initially, it was all design work....which then led on to forming a plug that a mould could be taken from to produce the fibreglass hulls:



This was some 2 1/2 years since starting!!

Since the successful production of a couple of hulls, we have been designing parts and adding them to the model to eventually form something that looks like the real thing:



And then, in the last 3 months or so, we have been adding the fine details and paint whilst attending shows and getting the model known in the wider world:







Now we come up to date and this evening I took our 90% finished model to be exhibited at the International Model Boat show this weekend at the Warwick Exhibition Centre:







Hand in hand with getting the model ready for the show, Flo and I have created a Company (Linkspan Models Ltd) to market this, and future, kits and this has also taken up a considerable amount of our time.

Fingers crossed that this whole venture works out..... I have ideas for about 15 different models and am part way through constructing our second kit and am designing the third and fourth.

If I could figure out a way of designing an r/c Superdream - that DIDNT need stabilsers - then I could be onto a winner!!!!!  Maybe a Sidewinder sidecar might be the answer.......hmmmmm............