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    Model Motor Boats - Being No. 2 of the Model Maker Series of Practical Handbooks Covering Every Phase of Model Building and Design
    Model Motor Boats - Being No. 2 of the Model Maker Series of Practical Handbooks Covering Every Phase of Model Building and Design
    Model Motor Boats - Being No. 2 of the Model Maker Series of Practical Handbooks Covering Every Phase of Model Building and Design
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    Model Motor Boats - Being No. 2 of the Model Maker Series of Practical Handbooks Covering Every Phase of Model Building and Design

    By Edward W. Hobbs

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    This book is a complete and novice-friendly guide to constructing working model boats, with information on designing, tools, equipping with engines, and much more. With detailed diagrams and precise instructions, this book will be of considerable utility to anyone with an interest in making model boats, and it is not to be missed by collectors of such literature. Contents include: “Practical Requirements”, “Motive Powers”, “Practical Designs”, “Building River Belle—A 24-inch Clockwork Launch”, “Building Speed King—Metre Class Racing Boat With Petrol Engine”, “Building Go-Lightly—30-inch Scale Model Cabin Cruiser With Electric Motor Drive”, and “Building Flying Fish—1 ½ Meter Racer With Twin Cylinder Petrol Engine”. Many vintage books such as this are becoming increasingly scarce and expensive. We are republishing this volume now in an affordable, high-quality edition complete with a specially commissioned new introduction on building models.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherWrangell-Rokassowsky Press
    Release dateOct 16, 2020
    ISBN9781528765251
    Model Motor Boats - Being No. 2 of the Model Maker Series of Practical Handbooks Covering Every Phase of Model Building and Design

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      Model Motor Boats - Being No. 2 of the Model Maker Series of Practical Handbooks Covering Every Phase of Model Building and Design - Edward W. Hobbs

      CHAPTER I

      PRACTICAL REQUIREMENTS

      Some hints and advice that will help in the selection ofa model for any particular purpose.

      THIS handbook is concerned solely with practical working models of motor boats intended for use on ponds or the sheltered waters of rivers and the seaside.

      Such models to be successful must possess certain well defined characteristics. In the first place the hull must be large enough to accommodate suitable machinery to drive it; secondly, the boat must displace sufficient water to enable it to carry the total weight of the complete boat; thirdly, the machinery must be of such type and power that it will drive the boat at the desired speed.

      Above all the finished model must be good to look at; should represent some particular prototype or real ship as, for example, the Cabin Cruiser Fig. 1; the River Launch, Fig. 2; or Motor Cruiser Fig. 3.

      Fig. 1. Cabin Cruiser.

      With almost negligible exceptions, these results can not be obtained by taking working drawings of a real ship and merely reducing them to the desired size for the model; in all cases it is essential that a working model be built to a thoroughly reliable design for a model boat possessing the characteristics and appearance of the chosen prototype.

      Without going into advanced technicalities which would be quite out of place in this little book; it may be pointed out that a working model must be sufficiently high out of the water to prevent the waves washing over the deck and flooding the

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