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    Micro Hydrofoil, 12 inch! Has anyone got smaller?

    Here is my last creation, my own scratchbuilt Hydrofoil. At the begining my twelve years old son made his own RC boat on the base of a 1/72 nd Revell MTB. The kit is under 12 inch long, so it has been quite a job to make it RC. unfortunatly the boat had an accident. The boy felt very sorry about it so i tried to mend it up. First as it was ruined, I had to recreate a superstructure from scratch, then I've equiped it with a much more efficent motor, for greater speed. But when turning, the boat was kapsizeing 'hope I spell it rigth), so I had an idea, I've fitted it with Foils. New problemes appeared. For the moment I'm going threw a certain amount of inproovements. I've fitteted the boat with a small Graupner Microspeed motor wich gives great velocity for a very light weight. I've refitted a micro plane receptor and a 10 A speed controler and two Nokia phone li-on Battery. the foils are made out of heli propellers. I'll thread photos of boat flying as soon as it's finished. For the moment, here are pictures of the genuin revell Kit and my scratch

    Kind regards to all of you.

    Averof
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    #2
    Forgot the pictures!!!

    Sorry I've forgot the pictures of the model, here they are.

    [ATTACH]16396.IPB[/ATTACH]

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      #3
      interesting build looks like a 'kitbash' with the different weapons mounts. I have always had a fascination for hydrofoils since having a chance to ride in one at an amusement park as a young boy. I would love to see pics of it on the water.

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        #4
        very nice,. I also would love to see some photos on the water

        vnkiwi

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          #5
          the inly photo

          This is the only photo I manage to make before the motor burnted out !

          [ATTACH]20306.IPB[/ATTACH]

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