1/96 H.M.S. VICTORIOUS for R/C

[Dave Wooley]

Hi Geoff Some nice ideas you have, good thinking! I like your rails.
Dave Wooley

[Victorious]

Nice to see you back again Dave. I think the Vic has changed quite a bit since you last saw her.

Well everything is now ready for her first sea trials tomorrow afternoon and everything was dry run today, just to make sure that all the electrics are in order. So, untill the sea trials photos tomorrow, I will just leave you with a few pics of her ready for her maiden voyage.
















Once the sea trials are complete, work will carry on to get her looking more finished for the Big Day on 2nd July and she will then be sporting her new top coat of paint.



Remember this one, just over three months ago.



Until Tomorrow, enjoy Victorious

[ARH]

Carnt wait,

[kennylibben]

SEA TRIALS! HOORAY!

From the pirates to the RN, heres hoping for some soggy shorts!

Take a video camera, so if she sinks we can get a good laugh!


But other than that, best of luck. better hope for calm seas, otherwise those big ol' holes wont be very helpful.

[Victorious]

SEA TRIALS! HOORAY!


But other than that, best of luck. better hope for calm seas, otherwise those big ol' holes wont be very helpful.

No chance of rough weather, were having one of our freak heatwaves at the moment, in other rwords NOT TYPICALLY BRITISH.

The big holes Kenny will be sealed from the inside of the hull, before long. This is one of the next jobs after the port side has received her armament.

[kennylibben]

Well if poisidon wont help me, could you put some gasoline on the deck and light it on fire. for histories sake say you're re-enacting a kamikaze attack?

i just cant stand to see you brits keep popping out such lovely ships in such short time, its not fair!

maybe its that nasty brown water you call tea.... special powers in it?

I'm going to have to double my daily dosage of Kool-Aide in hopes to compete.

[KYamato]

I'm going to have to double my daily dosage of Kool-Aide in hopes to compete.

Heh...

Very nice build Victorious, really like the Corsairs, cant wait to see them all nice and painted Brit-like..

[H.A. Baker]

Geoff,

SEA TRIALS!? Where's me U-Boat?

Seriously Geoff, I wish you well this afternoon. The heart in the mouth as she enters her natural element. Will she, won't she? The shaking of the 'tranny' as you ease her off the bank and heartfelt relief as she doesn't embarass you in front of a highly sceptical puplic ie: fellow Club Members. Been there, wrote the play. Gawd Bless 'er an' orl 'oo sail in 'er.

HAB

[Victorious]

Well folks here is what you have been waiting for. The Vic's Sea Trials

Just keep scrolling Up the page.















DON'T BE SO EAGER. You will have to look in Picture Post

[SAM]

I have been following your build silently for quite some time now. I was always very eager to see if you posted an update. I think now the time has come to compliment you. Although I'm not a big fan of WW2 warships I still think you're doing a great job!

Kind regards,

SAM

[Victorious]

I have been following your build silently for quite some time now. I was always very eager to see if you posted an update. I think now the time has come to compliment you. Although I'm not a big fan of WW2 warships I still think you're doing a great job!

Kind regards,

SAM

Thank you SAM, your comment is welcome. There is still quite a long way to go yet before it's finished. Updates will continue as usual.

[Victorious]

RE:- Victorious Sea Trials.


As most of you have seen on Picture Post, Victorious successfully completed her first sailing test. and there were one or two points raised about her performance etc.

The only drawback with a model of this size is the weight required for ballasting to the correct sailing draft. The Vic is already permanently loaded with 14 lbs of lead which is situated beneath the three speed controller's. To remove this would involve removing these controller's for easier lifting, but as the whole weight is only about 30 lbs with this ballast and motors etc, it is quite easy to handle. So I have fixed it in permanent to save having to keep removing some of the electrics.

It takes about 10 minutes at the waterside, to get her prepared for sailing, as the whole flight deck has to be removed first (in three sections) before placing her in the water.

This is to allow the batterries and extra ballast to be inserted along the length of the hull.

Once this is in place, the flight deck sections are slotted in position, the forward and aft sections first, then the centre section above the batteries, goes on last and is held downd by four small screws. To counterbalance the weight of the Island, two batteries are placed on the opposite side, one 12 volt & one 6 volt wired in series to give 18 volts for the largest centre motor.

For Timmy's enquiry, the planes this time were held in position on the deck, with Velcro Tape.

To answer Tony's questions about handling etc, I will try to give an account in order of checks etc.

The whole model remained completely dry inside the hull throughout the sailing, with no leagage through the shafts. These were injected with grease with a syringe, before inserting the inner shafts. The rudder post is well above the waterline, to avoid any seepage up this tube.

RUNNING

Running on the centre motor at 12 volts, was a bit slow, as this motor can run, on up to 24 volts, so I opted to increase the voltage to 18, to give this motor a bit more umph. Flat out on this motor alone, she now sails at about normal sailing scale of approx 20 knots. add the two outer motors to this speed at full throttle and I reckon she slightly exceeds her scale spaeed at about 35 knots ( enough for what I need).

Running on just the two outboard motors, she is a bit slower and will reach about scale 15 knots. On Full Rudder to Port she turns a complete circle in about 35 feet and 28 -30 feet on Starboard Full Rudder, this has now been rectified by tweaking the lingage rod from the servo to the tiller arm and is about right at 30 feet for both directions.

Turning on the outside props by reversing one of them and forward on the other, is not very effective, due to the length, but if full rudder is applied and a blip on the centre prop at the same time, she will come round a bit faster. ( I could do with a bow thruster )

Signal wise, she will reach the far side of our lake with no problem, which is about 350 yds accross from the landing stage and there is a length of about 400 yards before the first Island ( were all the ducks live) beyond this, your view is a bit restricted, so we keep within this islands limit.

I sailed her for a good three hours and there is still a good charge left in all three batteries, I rckon enough for a good four hours sailing all told, by intermitently using different prop controls. On half throttle on centre prop she cruises nicely.

The end result SUCCESSFUL and I am quite pleased that I have acheived this on her first sailing. Now it's back in Dry Dock for completion and final fitting out.

I hope this has aswered all you questions and given a full account of her preparation and performance.

Victorious

[Art]

Although I am modelling the Vic in it's early period, it will not neccessarily be painted in camouflage. I am keeping it all grey, which it appeared after WW2.
I like the earlier period fit, but as this model is for my own enjoyment, It will not be a true representation of her as she was during that period. During the war period, everything was camouflage and markings and names were not carried.

Geoff,

great looking model.

As an aside, is this the same Victorious that became the USS Robin when serving with the US Pacific Fleet?

Art

[Victorious]

Geoff,

great looking model.

As an aside, is this the same Victorious that became the USS Robin when serving with the US Pacific Fleet?

Art

Thank's Art. Yes this is the same Victorious, that was loaned to the US in the Pacific as USS Robin, but there is some debate as to whether it used the name Robin, as this was a call sign assined to the Victorious whilst operating under the Americans. She remained as Victorious but was referred to as the Robin.

[NucSub]

Great build. Sound like she handles quite realistically and with enough battery capacity that you won't be sitting around waiting for a charge. She looks great on the water.
Now if only there was a U-boat commander that could present you with the traditional picture of your carrier viewed from the periscope....
Look forward to the pictures of her on the water with other similar scale ships and her final coat of paint.

[Art]

Thank's Art. Yes this is the same Victorious, that was loaned to the US in the Pacific as USS Robin, but there is some debate as to whether it used the name Robin, as this was a call sign assined to the Victorious whilst operating under the Americans. She remained as Victorious but was referred to as the Robin.

Thanks for that info. I have been reading several personal accounts from crew serving on her, one of which is at:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/ww2peopleswar/stor ... 7863.shtml

[Victorious]

Some interesting reading about the Vic's war years on that site Art.

If you type in Victorious on the search, it brings up quite a lot of articles that relate to the Vic.

[Victorious]

I don't know what 's happened to our British weather. It hasn't rained for eleven days now and the each day seems to get hotter and hotter. IT'S JUST NOT BRITISH.

WE usually get a few days sun, then rain and more rain with winds then a dry cloudy day, that's much colder, more rain and then the sun shows again and it's that hot, you would think you were in the Middle East.

Work on the build has had to be limited, as it's too hot in the drydock to work in comfort, so I decided to get out the paint and tidy up the Vic, as she has been looking rather neglected for the past few weeks.

She got a few black marks at the bow just level with the flight deck whilst on sea trials, due to a bit of bad manouvering. The bow rubbed against the landing stage edge which is covered with rubber from a conveyor belt and received a few black marks on the paintwork, but no damage was sustained.

So I set up a table outside in a bit of shade and gave the whole hull a new coat of grey. I then reprayed the bottom half of the hull with red oxide and then put in the boot topping, using marks that were penciled in along the water line when she had been ballasted on the water.

Getting the stern done was the awkwardest bit, as it's hard to apply masking tape around a curve without getting kinks along the edge, but by doing a little at a time, I managed to get it straight and both sides match up now.

I have given the funnel it's black top and painted the decks of the superstructure in green, although I might go over this with a slightly darker shade, as it looks a bit too green.

The Corsairs have also been painted in their new squadron colours of Navy Blue with yellow nose cones and are just needing new markings and wheels to be added

So here are the latest photos of a new looking Victorious.





















I am taking her down the lake again tomorrow morning for another sail, so I will try and get a few more sailing shots for you.

Enjoy. Victorious

[ARH]

I am taking her down the lake again tomorrow morning for another sail, so I will try and get a few more sailing shots for you.



I told you you had been at the WOOD,S, COURT MARTIAL OFFENCE, bumping a carrier,

looking very nice, it will not be long now.

[KYamato]

Very nice Victorious, only word I can think of to describe it is "wow.."

Getting there, slowly but surely..