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Building Scale Model Electric-Powered Boats by Gordon Longworth is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is Building Scale Model Electric-Powered Boats about?
Building scale model boats that can sail under their own power is a challenging and rewarding hobby requiring varied skills from woodworking to painting to wiring electrical components. This book details everything you need to know to get started: from the tools, materials and equipment required to motors, servos, propellers and remote controls. There are step-by-step guides to the more challenging procedures. There are details on the different types of kits available and how to choose one. Advice is given on glues, fillers, making silicon moulds, and finishes such as painting, decals and weathering. Finally, there is the building of an off-the-shelf kit for the steam yacht Komet and scratch-built RNLI Lifeboat The Torbay Severn class lifeboat.
Who reads Building Scale Model Electric-Powered Boats?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Gordon Longworth
- Publisher
- THE CROWOOD PRESS LTD
- Published
- 2022
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780719841170
- Category
- nonfiction
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