1/16th Miss Thriftway Build

[JimClark]

Motor and cooling jacket ordered and esc traded for

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[olwarbirds]

Going to try to do the decking out of Mahogany also.

Jim

Jim, Im also building a 1/16 shovel (gary finlay) and im interested in doing a mahogany deck...looking forward to seeing what you do and where you source your mahogany from....DJ

[JimClark]

I actually have a large piece of Veneer from re-skinning a sewing machine desk for my wife a few years ago. I am going to cut it into 1/16th scale pieces of 4X8 sheets of plywood.

[olwarbirds]

Nice, Jim I hadnt thought about using veneer...that makes it much easier, use my existing decking as templates...im doing that Miss K + kit that Steve sells here on OSE.. I wanted to jazz it up a bit....Im still debating on what motor im going to end up with, was thinking 2-3S ...I hadnt actually thought about racing it..that would be fun..tks for the info... DJ

[JimClark]

I am going to try the Loepard 2845-3650 motor and just run a single 2s pack

[RandyatBBY]

Here is a pic of the real boat back in the 50's


Also a replica , recently built from the orig plans

I have a 1/8 scale mold of that boat. 1/16 is gona be fun!

[JimClark]

Ok finally got it started

[JimClark]

Started to fit the transom and decided it was too narrow so I am making a new one that will be .250 inches wider. For now everything is just tacked together with CA

[gsbuickman]

Right on Jim

I like the old school boats, I have a 31" 80's built Miss Notre Same from roger newton plans. I dont run it much cause its 30+ years old, but its fun

[olwarbirds]

nice....Jim, what is the advantage to widening the transom that small (.250) of an amount ? DJ

[JimClark]

No advantage I just thought looking at plcs of the real boat the transom provided made the sides curve too much so I decided to widen it to lessen the curve

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[JimClark]

Did a little work today in bending some wood for the stringers. I used an old technique I found for bending wood. You use downey Fabric Softener ( a ratio of 1 part softener to 12 parts boiling water). i have a piece of tube with a cap on it and fill the tube with the solution and put the wood in it to soak for 1 hour. After you can bend the wood to the shape needed. kind of like steaming wood. The stringers are 1/8th thick spruce.

[JimClark]

Well worked a little today. Allt he stringers are now on the hull which means it is ready for some decking. I have the two pieces of the bottom glued together and fiberglassed at the break in the hull. Found a potential huge problem. The cowling I have for it is just too big. Only hope of using it is to chop it up in pieces and use the tail section and make the cockpit from Balsa. You will see i the picture that the cockpit aligns with engine bay. That sure pissed me off as I really didn't want to make a one off cowl.

[JimClark]

here is what the cowl will look like.

[Darin Jordan]

Sweet!