Woody styled 26in Wildthing

[deestingray]

adreher,

Mate, I cannot remember where I aquired these plans, but I am happy to share them with you if you like. They are in a big zip file with build photos of a 48" gas version. From what I remember, the plans are in both a PDF and Autocad as the 48" but I took them down to my local printers and got them scaled down onto paper.

The wood look was my idea, I didn't follow instructions as such which is the great thing about scratch builds. Glad you like it.

[Stealth Assassin]

Are the stripes stain or paint?

Looks cool!

[FLEETMASTER]

On the contrary,individual strips of mahogany i believe and white ramin.
Quite time consuming,especially to this kind of finish.I hope to see it run in the flesh sometime soon.

[deestingray]

I have finally got my Thing dialled in, as originally thought, and pointed out by a few people, anything in the X440 range was going to be too big, that turned out to be the case as I am now running an X632 and it has not run better. I am on 10 cells which equates to a lot of rpm however my amp draw has come down considerably, I hover around the 65 mark consistantly now.

http://www.cunny.jct.net.au/dhullbt.swf

By the way, this is a flash video, bout 2 minutes in length of my last weeks run.
Thanks for watching if you did.

[andym]

Man what a beutiful boat, well done. It sure isn't slow either!!

[ace028]

man, thats a really nice looking boat, good job. Have you thought about going lipo?

[FLEETMASTER]

It sure looks fast!
I'm a little worried now,you may well give me a hosing by the looks of it.
I'll have to pull my finger out,or so to speak.

[deestingray]

Thanks guys,

Ace, I have thought of going lipo, probably either run 2 x 3S 2200's in parallel or 2 x 2S 5000's in series. Whilst the motor could easily handle the voltage, it is going to be spinning at a great rate of knots. Right now with the 10 IB3600's, on nice hot packs, it is starting to get a bit flighty in the straights, a COG adjustment could probably rectify this but I like to live on the edge. When these cells are goooone, it will definitely be lipo time but in the meantime........

Fleety, you are going down. I hope you are going to bring a cushion, you will need it!!!

Andym, yeah it is going quite well methinks. I am quite surprised at the difference a MM makes on prop selection and for a 10 cell boat, it is nearly flying so to speak. I love this hull, it takes care of itself. On todays run, it was getting a bit squirrelly out of the corners, would pick the nose up and then settle right down to which I am pretty happy about.