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Movies of Tony Crollie's "Scale" Models
Ingenious models which tend to evolve with time (both forwards and backwards!).
Tony Crollie's "Submarine"
Tony Crollie's Seaplane (1)
Tony Crollie's Seaplane (2)
Tony Crollie's Bath Toy Conversion (1)
Tony Crollie's Bath Toy Conversion (2)
PS Panjandrum
"PS Panjandrum". The boat is adapted from a child's beach/bath toy with an MFA motor/gearbox driving the paddle wheels, which themselves are fashioned from plastic sink strainers spaced apart by the brass paddle blades. It is fully radio controlled and features a steam sound unit, synchronised to the paddle wheels by a micro-switch / cam and also has a smoke unit adapted from a model railway unit. Experiments continue to try and make it climb the beach like the famous WWII Giant Panjandrum, though an explosive payload is not planned - well, not at present anyway!
Maplin Speedboat
This boat represents a triumph of development over design - a Maplin toy R/C speedboat has been adapted to use a 'hot' 400 motor controlled by a forward only aircraft-type ESC powered from a two-cell Lithium Polymer battery. The wide-band radio gear has been replaced by a 'proper' crystal controlled 27MHz receiver and the bang-bang steering upgraded to proportional by installing a servo. The high speed running achieved has required strakes and trim-tabs to be added to the hull.
HMS Indescribable
Indescribable!
Teddy Bear's Picnic
Not long after Alan Bond joined the club, he spotted a pondside bargain - a small cabin cruiser, complete except for ESC, with radio gear and almost new TX, for sale at £10 or was it £15? So he bought it for the TX and RX and gave the remainder to his prodigious boat building friend, Tony Crollie. After some experiments Tony decided to re-model it as a 1930s style naval launch - which apart from a whole new superstructure, also involved adding filler to modify the previous cabin cruiser style prow to give a more 'period' hull shape.
Whilst all this was going on, during a visit to the Lifeboat shop in Lymington the cute little naval-uniformed bears were spotted and it was realised they would make great passengers for the launch. The next step was obvious - add a table cloth and cups and saucers, plate of sandwiches etc (dolls house accessories). It is powered by a 380 motor running on a 6 cell NiMH pack and an Mtronics 15A ESC. After some experimentation to find the best prop, it now has a fair turn of speed.
HMS Judson
HMS Judson" - a turn of the century, colonial river gun-boat - for "showing the flag" to the natives and the control of smuggling and piracy. It is powered by a 400 motor running on a 6 cell NiMH pack and an Mtronics 15A ESC. The for'ard gun is servo controlled.
Diving Platform
A modified Thunder Tiger fishing boat. The jib of the crane is made from a coat-hanger and its boiler is a small plastic bottle. The diver is modelled in plasticine and his air supply is provided by a battery-powered aquarium puffer. The diver now has a life-line as one of his brothers was lost in the Setley deeps. [Web-master's comment: any one working in standard diving gear without a safety line is asking to be lost; possibly we might have to incorporate a paragraph in the club rules.]
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