Meet the Makers - Model Display Table 5
Table 5 - Place 1
Model Owner: Ted Lang
Model Builder: Ted Lang on request from Stuart Lang
Vessel: Oscar
Vessel Type: Flybridge Super Yacht
Scale: 25 to 1
Builder: Mullder Shipyard
Length: 22.6 m
Beam: 6.2 m
Displacement: 60 tons
Launch Date: 2020
The model is scratch built in timber, plank on frame, from drawings and profiles sourced from photos and data from the internet. Mllder would not supply any information so the model was based on photos of the real yacht.
Propulsion via twin screws driven by two “COMO” motors at 6,000 RPM using 2 NiMH, 7 to 8 Ah capacity, batteries in parallel driving two ESCs.
Table 5 - Place 2
Model Owner: Ted Lang
Model Builder: Ted Lang
Vessel: Ulises Tug
Vessel Type: Tug
Scale: 30 to 1
Builder: Unknown
Length: 25 m
Beam: 5.4 m
Displacement: 108 Tons
Launch Date: About 1960 actual date unknown
The model was built from a kit available through Premiership Models, however more detailed drawings of the superstructure were made by the builder.
The model has 15V DC electric motor driving a 45mm diameter 3 bladed prop giving it a scale speed of approximately 10 knots. The main power supply is two 7.2V 5Ah NiMH (nickel metal hydride) batteries connected in parallel.
Steering is connected to a single servo.
Also fitted with RC operative navigation and wheelhouse (bridge) lighting via a 6V 1.8Ah NiMH battery.
It is a copy of the real vessel timber built American steam powered harbour tug, refitted in a company colour scheme and logos.
Table 5 - Place 3
Model Owner: Ted Lang
Model Builder: Ted Lang
Vessel: Marina
Vessel Type: Atlantic Tuna Trawler
Scale: 50 to 1
Builder: Unknown
Length: 30 m
Beam: 7.5 m
Displacement: 500 tons
Launch Date: Unknown
Built from Artesian Latina kit using standard plank on frame.
The model has a 15V DC motor driving a 30 mm three blade prop providing a scale speed of approximately 10 knots. The main power supply is a 9.6V 4.5Ah NiMh (nickel metal hydride) battery.
Steering is interconnected to single servo.
The model is an Atlantic tuna fishing trawler, the kit is sold as a display unit only. Modifications were needed to make it an RC operational model.
Table 5 - Place 4
Model Owner: Bob Nelson
Model Builder: Bob Nelson
Vessel: MV Brodie (Samson Billings Kit)
Vessel Type: General Work Boat
Scale: 36 Scale
Builder: Unknown
Length: 890 mm Model length
Beam: 180 mm Model length
Displacement: Unknown
Launch Date: Unknown
Bob usually calls his models after his grandchildren so there was no actual Pilot Boat Brodie. Pilot Boat Brodie was made from the Billings Kit Samson II which was freelance design. The boat was made to look like a pilot boat near where Brodie was living at the time.
