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  • peells
    Senior Member
    • Jan 2008
    • 716

    #1

    Pete's Nitro Hunter

    Hi everyone,
    I have drawn my own plans and am now completing my second "Nitro Hunter" which is turnning out far better than the first one, (which is a nice boat as well) and I have taken several pictures to share.
    1. First I started by cutting my self a piece of 3/4" plywood to work on top of (so the wife wont have my head for messing up the table) and then by drawing a stright line down the board I do not know if you will be able to see it in the photos,
    2. Then I got out my tools which are amazingly few (I can see where a nice scroll saw would be handy) I have been using an exacto knife and a hobby copping saw for making all my cuts.
    3. After making all the bulkheads I carefully lay them out allong the line at the perscribed distances and use a couple of drops of "CA" glue to hold them in place. After the frame is completed I use a razor blade to cut it free, the more glue you use the harder it will be to remove. (Been There Done That)
    4. Before cutting the frame free we need to apply the upper portion of the skin (since the boat is being constructed upside down that would be the area closest to the 3/4" plywood)

    5. And this brings us to where I am today. The whole inside has been coated with fiber glass resin (spray application) when mixed properly this works well for water proofing and the outside will be done that way as well, Then it will be lightly sanded ( and I do mean lightly NO burn throughs) then I will apply approx. three coats of a high grade automotive primer (because I can) then I will take on the task of making her smoothe real smoothe then I will apply some real cool color Again from an automotive paint store (PPG products only). and at that point let it all dry for a couple of days then I go psyco (not too psyco) and sand out the color with 600 grit wet and dry very lightly as to remove the gloss and any minor imperfections, Then some kind of stripping will occur and after that a killer couple of coats of clear coat and then we will have a real glasser of a paint job.
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    Last edited by peells; 01-14-2008, 09:54 PM.
    Peter Eells; Fun, and Helping others To Have Fun!!!
    http://rcboatsbypetere.blogspot.com/
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  • kck741
    Senior Member
    • Aug 2007
    • 265

    #2
    Looks great Have you thought about Power options/hardware?
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    • ace028
      Senior Member
      • Aug 2007
      • 952

      #3
      This is my dads boat, he is new to the forum. I think he is using fullers hardware, and a feiago xl motor, not sure what wind though. I think he is planning on running either a 4 cell lipo or a 6 cell. Not sure though.
      Twin power =

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      • peells
        Senior Member
        • Jan 2008
        • 716

        #4
        Reply to kick741

        Hi there,
        yes I have given some thought to hardware ect. I posted on the video site a video and more build pics of my projects. on the purple (harlaquin paint by PPG) I am running a Fieago 540xl 2084kva with 2 -3s lipos in series and it is sort of hard to handle at 1/2 throtle but very fast (hence the name NITRO HUNTER) if you have any ideas let me know I am curently using a x438 berillium prop and a 100 amp esc which handles 36 nimh cells, thanks for your intrest
        Peter Eells; Fun, and Helping others To Have Fun!!!
        http://rcboatsbypetere.blogspot.com/
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        • peells
          Senior Member
          • Jan 2008
          • 716

          #5
          Nitro Hunter up date

          Yesterday I added the skin to the nose and it turned out very well no gaps. see the up dated picture above.
          Peter Eells; Fun, and Helping others To Have Fun!!!
          http://rcboatsbypetere.blogspot.com/
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          • kck741
            Senior Member
            • Aug 2007
            • 265

            #6
            Wow shes really looking nice,you are very skilled.Im happy when I can Glue ABS kits together with no gaps!All hats to you
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            • kck741
              Senior Member
              • Aug 2007
              • 265

              #7
              Ohh yeah How long and how wide is your Nitro hunter I didnt see where you said it
              S.S.R.C-Southern Style Radio Control

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              • peells
                Senior Member
                • Jan 2008
                • 716

                #8
                it is 28 1/2" long with a beam of 8 1/2", I am thinking of redesigning the back a little wider and flattening out the bottom toward the back so I can make a jet drive model!! and thanks for the complement I do work hard on these models but i find it rather relaxing but my mind just reels with ideas about this stuff.
                Peter Eells; Fun, and Helping others To Have Fun!!!
                http://rcboatsbypetere.blogspot.com/
                [email protected]

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                • peells
                  Senior Member
                  • Jan 2008
                  • 716

                  #9
                  Nitro Hunter

                  Well sorry for not up dating this post yet but I have to go and buy some supplies, but I did up date my settings a little.
                  Peter Eells; Fun, and Helping others To Have Fun!!!
                  http://rcboatsbypetere.blogspot.com/
                  [email protected]

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                  • peells
                    Senior Member
                    • Jan 2008
                    • 716

                    #10
                    Pete's Nitro Hunter

                    OK guys and gals,
                    I have up date photos in a post called Pete's Nitro Hunter 2 I have finished adding the skin and started the hatch which right now is a piece of 1/8" plywood which will be mostly trashed because I will be cutting out a large rectangular hole out of the middle this gives more clearance for extra stuff like a gps receiver yea buddy!! I am going to find out how fast I am going and I know it is cooking fast my old boat look at the Avatar goes about 45 at half throttle I think I am working on getting full throttle out of it though. so I can really see what it will do.

                    Happy Boating (in between rain storms)
                    Peter Eells; Fun, and Helping others To Have Fun!!!
                    http://rcboatsbypetere.blogspot.com/
                    [email protected]

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                    • peells
                      Senior Member
                      • Jan 2008
                      • 716

                      #11
                      Pete's Nitro Hunter up date

                      Hi everyone sorry I have not been building lately but I did today I started the hatch and got it all put together but it is still drying but I got some pics for you all to look at some do not look like much but I will post enough to see the progress I made today.
                      I started by cutting out some 1' balsa and gluing it together and then gluing it to the hatch lid and finally shaping it look for my next post in just a few minutes.
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                      http://rcboatsbypetere.blogspot.com/
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                      • peells
                        Senior Member
                        • Jan 2008
                        • 716

                        #12
                        more photos

                        Hi again,
                        well here are five more photos of the hatch building process. there are a fitting and skinning and one UN trimmed in place so you can see how the boat is starting to look.
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                        Peter Eells; Fun, and Helping others To Have Fun!!!
                        http://rcboatsbypetere.blogspot.com/
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                        • ace028
                          Senior Member
                          • Aug 2007
                          • 952

                          #13
                          Looking pretty good, I thought you were going to cut out the center of the flat bottom part of the hatch, of you haven't done that yet?
                          Twin power =

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                          • peells
                            Senior Member
                            • Jan 2008
                            • 716

                            #14
                            No I did not get to cutting out the center yet my arms are about to fall off from all the sanding I did today I may go and trim the edges though.
                            Peter Eells; Fun, and Helping others To Have Fun!!!
                            http://rcboatsbypetere.blogspot.com/
                            [email protected]

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                            • peells
                              Senior Member
                              • Jan 2008
                              • 716

                              #15
                              Hi everyone,
                              I know this is my old boat but I just added a nice little brass shark fin to the bottom of my boat to help stabilize it (at high speed it starts to dance) I just thought I would show you guys what can be done with a jig saw and a file,
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                              Peter Eells; Fun, and Helping others To Have Fun!!!
                              http://rcboatsbypetere.blogspot.com/
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