Micro 12" wooden boat build

[kfxguy]

Hello fellas. Haven't been posting much. Life gets in the way you know! I kinda lost interest in boats for a while because of my surgery, flood and doing stuff constantly for everyone else (well it felt like it anyway! Lol). I have been pecking away at a couple boats for myself over the past few months. One of them is this little jewel that Jesse j built the hull for me. It's a 12" wooden cat. He did an awesome job on building it so a big thanks to him!

Motor: 2800kv outrunner
Esc: unknown airplane 30amp (I think haha!)
Flex: super small (bought that so long ago I don't remember)
Servo: ultra micro spectrum (that thing is a beast!)
Hardware courtesy of the ose store
No name 2s 1200mAh lipo
Octura prop x430

I apologize about my pics too. Photobucket screwed the pooch and I can't post them like I used to.

I don't have any full pics of it yet, I'll post tonight. I was too excited not to post what I have right now lol


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Sorry the linkage is so big. Out of desperation to finish it last night and not have to make a hobby shop trip, that's what I came up with. I'll change it to the proper size when I can. The maiden will hopefully be at the campground this weekend

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[kfxguy]

Btw, I'm not sure why it turned my pics sideways. Sorry bout that. Video to come this weekend so stay tuned!

[Jesse J]

Hey Travis, here are some shots of my first attempt at airbrushing.
Lettering from doityourselflettering.com

Plans are available to those up for the challenge. I have a build thread here for construction questions. You can see both travis's and mine in a parallel build.

Now, let's see what Travis does with this guy!!

[Jesse J]

What size prop is that?

[kfxguy]

Man that thing looks really good! I'll look tomorrow but I think it's 26mm

[kfxguy]

What size prop is that?

It's an x430 I detounged a little bit. May be too big but it's all I had. Do they make anything smaller?

Here's some topside pics

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[Jesse J]

27mm is the tiniest. I have had BAD luck with detonguing... would not get up on plane!
Kinda why I went with lower kv motor, 2700kv I think. If you go high kv, maybe a higher strut will help.

But... did you run it yet?
Hardware looks great!

Do you have any pics of the esc? Mine is not water cooled and thermals after a bit.
I found these guys have a bit of torque roll, thus my servo and esc, and battery... as far to the port side possible.

[kfxguy]

Wonder what I should do for paint? I like the wood look so I may leave the top wood and paint the bottom and clear the coat the whole thing

[kfxguy]

27mm is the tiniest. I have had BAD luck with detonguing... would not get up on plane!
Kinda why I went with lower kv motor, 2700kv I think. If you go high kv, maybe a higher strut will help.

But... did you run it yet?
Hardware looks great!

Do you have any pics of the esc? Mine is not water cooled and thermals after a bit.
I found these guys have a bit of torque roll, thus my servo and esc, and battery... as far to the port side possible.

I haven't run it yet. It's been raining on and off today at the campground. Been at the pool majority of the day. I'll get a run in in a little while. The motor is 2800kv and I'm running on 2s for now. Not sure if I'll get the maiden on video but I'll try. I did add water cooling to the esc if you couldn't tell. I'll pull it out and take a pic in a little while. I used artic silver epoxy to attach some cooling tubes although I used an over kill 30amp esc for the job. Better to have too much than not enough you know. I think I'll order a smaller prop or contact jim at abc and see if he offers anything smaller.

[srislash]

Wonder what I should do for paint? I like the wood look so I may leave the top wood and paint the bottom and clear the coat the whole thing

I love the wood look!

Good job on those Jesse.
And latex out well Travis.

[kfxguy]

So fellas I just made the maiden run. Omg this thing runs better than I thought. I didn't run it for long but it let me know how it runs My son drove it longer than me, the esc didn't even get warm, the motor got a little warm so I may add a cooler to it later on to handle more abuse. The outrunner I'm using is weird, it has a can on the outside of it which I've never seen before but it has some good power. Check out the video. I'm very impressed

[Jesse J]

I love the wood look!

Good job on those Jesse.
And latex out well Travis.

Thanks Shawn.
If you want good lookin wood, I'd consider laying a final layer of 1/64" ply, after super smoothing, then get artistic with staining? Then urathene a top coat to a glass finish. Super styly yo!

[kfxguy]

I think what I'm going to do is just smooth it out (the woodwork on the top side looks fantastic) and then just clear it. Probably with either automotive clear or some upol.

[Jesse J]

Name for it?

[Jesse J]

Here is a recent vid of mine: https://youtu.be/dHzuyOpLMvk