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Friday...
Yesterday, I finally picked up the RC Boat I have been wanting!! I still need to do a bit of assembly on it, and charge up the batteries, but I should be good to go sometime this weekend. Of course, the next problem is...where to test it out? It doesn't need to be deep, since it's a jetboat...but I will have to think about it....
The boat is interesting. Francis Ford Coppola's Apocalypse Now is considered a classic film. It's a re-imaging of Conrad's novel "Heart of Darkness", but set during Vietnam War. It's pretty critical of the US war effort. It's one of those films that really works best on a big screen, with great sound. Rather than a steam boat as in "Heart of Darkness", it is a river patrol boat that the main character is travelling on up the river to do his assignment. These boats were known as PBRs, and were made with plastic hulls, I kid you not. They used water jets instead of propellers, since props would catch on things in the shallow rivers of the region. The jets were designed by the Jacuzzi Brothers...yes, the hot tub people! So the RC model, an it is a very accurate model that also happens to float, and has functioning engines, is a scale replica of the PBR.
Eventually, I will repaint it, since although it comes from the factory in a nice camo green...it is the wrong camo green. It seems that the US Navy, which operated the PBR has a slightly different camo green than the US Army's camo green. Eventually, I will repaint it the correct colour.
So, that's about it for now...
The boat is interesting. Francis Ford Coppola's Apocalypse Now is considered a classic film. It's a re-imaging of Conrad's novel "Heart of Darkness", but set during Vietnam War. It's pretty critical of the US war effort. It's one of those films that really works best on a big screen, with great sound. Rather than a steam boat as in "Heart of Darkness", it is a river patrol boat that the main character is travelling on up the river to do his assignment. These boats were known as PBRs, and were made with plastic hulls, I kid you not. They used water jets instead of propellers, since props would catch on things in the shallow rivers of the region. The jets were designed by the Jacuzzi Brothers...yes, the hot tub people! So the RC model, an it is a very accurate model that also happens to float, and has functioning engines, is a scale replica of the PBR.
Eventually, I will repaint it, since although it comes from the factory in a nice camo green...it is the wrong camo green. It seems that the US Navy, which operated the PBR has a slightly different camo green than the US Army's camo green. Eventually, I will repaint it the correct colour.
So, that's about it for now...