Sea Road Lady

         very nice

david

Added a driver and passenger.



Also bought 3 more cars another Dauphine and an A310.



And a 1952 RENAULT 4CV Barquette des Records Vernet Pairard.

Final coat of satin clear on the hull and super structure supports and railings.
Some pics tomorrow if it's fully dry.

It was dry my attempt at rust weathering is fair I got busy with clear 5min epoxy and glued bums and feet in suitable positions.
Fittings added to bridge roof. Water tank in place and life boats glued down. Overall it'coming together.

Vehicle ramps and 9 of the 10 Renault's mounted on the deck.

Passenger ramps done and power to the paddle engine 3 AA NiMh cells.
click on the pic for the video

Very good Damien     - now for the water   

Barrie

superb matey.......It has been great to watch...it's a unique project and has brought plenty of interest, and the finished product is a credit to you......I really like it........a totally unusual and fascinating model of a great boat.........hope you get great pleasure from sailing and showing her.

what's next. neil.

Thanks Neil I still have to finish the radio install and ballast her Neil as well as make the travel boxes for her and Lady of the lake.
Though next is a paddle barge with caterpillar crane and a load of pipes.

I have finished the plan and made bulkhead templates so far.

The final buy arrived a trailer for the 1952 RENAULT 4CV Barquette des Records Vernet Pairard is made of white metal in kit form.



It went together easily.

 

Minor mods to lock the ramps upright.



With the car aboard I'll paint it shortly.

nice one Damien I like it          

Fitted a tow bar to the Renault RX4 and safety chain to the trailer.






And all the cars are mounted where they'll remain, the 4CV and Alpine A110 in the bow are glued in place the rest inplace with nut & bolts.






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I've finished the paddle drive spindle grub screw flats no pic's though it's not very pretty lol

hi Damien,

looks well now all cars are in place   , hope you have good boat insurance for salvage wrights for that lot, will be huge to recover             when will maiden voyage be, must be getting there now    

david

Getting closer David still have the RC gear and ballasting to do as well as the transport cases this and the other paddle boat with my health as it is I can't give a final date yet hopefully soon.
I'd hate to lose her there's $300 plus in cars on her.

RC gear installed and working well took a short video of a wheel turning a tad dark using a torch to light it up.
Click on the pic to start the video. (HTML Code Added Damien For Your Video To Work Within The Forum . RR.)



Now for pic's of the R/c install.
The Rx is in the stern with the 1 1/2" antenna in a tube behind a post on one of the passenger ramps.

  





She currently weighs 2.7kg 700g is in the cars on deck.

Very smart Damien.    

Barrie

I like that very much indeed. well done Damien.

Great work Bud looking forward to a vid/photos of her on the water, good luck with the maiden voyage

  

RR

Thanks guy's

Damn damn damn
Shouldn't have gone back to the shed after dinner one of those moments when you turn the neighborhood air blue I accidentally knocked her off the shelf!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 
While in a fit of RAGE I jigsawed a paddle cover  back together and decided enough for today as I was leaving I noticed the bow above the bulwarks is damaged I'll have a better look tomorrow.

Hopefully things won't look so bad in the morning Damien.

Barrie

Thanks Barrie once glued back together it doesn't look so bad just a bit of cosmetics to do now.







The lower half of the travel case finished parts for the upper half were cut from 3mm MDF I hope to start putting it together this afternoon.

hi Damien,

well done   , nobody will ever no what has happened once you have rubed it down and painted it. try some of your weathering on it more authentic. are you starting with the cold weather now down under.

Hi David. yes it will look ok in the end.
It is starting to cool down still chucks a really warm one each week but they're forecasting a very nasty winter though.

The broken railing was about 10mm short so i'm molding another from 2 strips of 1.5 x 3mm balsa I soaked them in water and tied them in place  with some elastic to the outside of the remainder rail and left to dry over night.

The rail repair looks good I'll add a little weathering to add to her ambiance.

 



I also got the lid for her transport case made  3 1/2 sheets of 3mm x 60cm x 120cm was used to make this a the lid for the Lady of the Lake after I ran out of c/board at $12 I think it was the cheapest part of the build.
The tape holds it together while the glue dries.



I still have to fit locators to keep them on the trailer.

I've finished the transport box polyester resin inside and out and fitted velcro straps to hold the model in place within the box all that's left is some weathering on the damaged paddle box, add ballast the locate strips under the box and finish the radio install.

The paddle cover repair weathering came out OK.



And a pick of the transport boxes piggy backed on the trailer frame I took the wheels off to get access for welding some steel "U's" for the tie down straps to go through.

I have the radio installed a 2.4Ghz, 2 ch the motor has plenty of power and the paddles will act as a cooling fan in the summer heat   
I have an issue not sure if it's a problem when power is applied to motor there is a slight movement of the rudder it twitches to the left a little and returns to previous position it only happens at motor start the motor is correctly suppressed, the below deck area is very crowded



I've put ext leads in to shift the esc away fro the motor I can't put the receiver any further away without putting it on the deck.

 

And a short video a tad dark the only control being used is the throttle.  Click on the pic to start the video.



Any ideas will be tried and appropriate accolades given for any that work.

Problem solved thanks to Paddleducks members.
The twitching stopped when I went to a separate Rx battery.
To be safe I'll change the esc as well as it's rated for 5-7 cells & i'm running 8, with model out of water it pulls 1.08A might need to run two packs in parallel I guess I'll find out in bath test.

Back at it 3 ESC's arrived the BEC wires have been cut, and plugs added to suit my drive battery and wiring 2 switch harnesses.
One ESC for this boat and 2 for the Lady of the Lake.

all's well that ends well matey................but bloody annoying when it's your own fault..........no other sod to blame, lol

I'm wondering how I'm going to get one of my model lifeboats up to Scotland on holiday with us without breaking bits off it........a box will be too big, so may just pack it in the top box around all the duvets lol.
neil.

I ventured out to shed as the temp approached 9c and pleased to say the wiring is sorted and the first paddler Lady of the Lake is ready for ballasting.

Hopefully I'll get the Sea Road Lady to the same stage tomorrow.

Almost finished found checking electronics 3 times is not enough while sorting wiring for 2 parallel 8 cell packs I had the ammeter hooked up at power up it showed 4.9Amps I turned the air blue berating myself when I found I'd accidentally wired the second cell in reverse  the batteries got quite hot but appear ok.
I hate to think what would have happened If I had Lipo's.

A tad cluttered but ready to ballast.  

Who can find the extra switch for the ESC?

With a bit of wire to operate it without removing the deck.


Barrie

You win Barrie I thought the actuator wire would give it away      

No - I only saw that after I had posted the photo.

Barrie

The Lady got her bottom wet today she's very stern heavy and the paddles are way to fast I'll cut the batteries from 2 x 8 cell packs to 5 cell packs and relocate them from amid ship to the bow and remove the equivalent weight in lead.

I also need more tension on the motor slide as the belt slips considerably on the pinion pulley.

pic 1
Bow at waterline as is the stern until I put the upper deck in place.

It seems you can't buy 5 cell battery boxes so I chose appropriate sizes Dowel cut jus a little shorter than a battery drilled a 2mm hole down the middle & used 1mm copper wire through the hole formed and filled with solder as seen in the pic.



I recently accidentally bought 20 1800ma AAA cells instead of AA cells so as a weight saving measure I'll use them for Rx batteries.

I found a couple of sellers on ebay that are selling 5 cell battery boxes so after I found how many cell are needed for optimum paddle speed I set it up neatly.

To the tune of Herman's Hermits There's No Shed Today the warmth has gone away.

2 x 5 AA cell battery packs in parallel giving 6v at 6Ahr to the 545 motor everything except the ballasting.

She's tail heavy therefore as well as the batteries I have to squeeze this 400g stack of lead buttons into the bow with the batteries.

The Lady was top heavy and somewhat unstable in the tank I weighed the removable deck with 9 of the 11 vehicles on it and she has around 670g on the deck some thought needed on removing some of these classic Renault's. boohoo

I think stabilizers on the hull would  look out of place.
Damien.

Damien wrote:

To the tune of Herman's Hermits There's No Shed Today the warmth has gone away.

No shed today, the warmth has gone away
My joints are freezin cold
They're makin me feel ooooold.

The warmer days will soon be a commin
A ju-umper I will not need,
Then I'll complain a bout it bein too hot
Just because I ca-aaan.

No shed today...........etc etc.


(feeble attempt I know, but I love the tune!)

  Well done mate