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Old 29-10-2006, 04:41 PM   #1
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Boat Winter Video Night?

Are we having one? If so are we going have a model boat race?
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Old 29-10-2006, 04:42 PM   #2
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Yeah what happened to all those models everyone built?
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Old 29-10-2006, 04:46 PM   #3
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Yeah what happened to all those models everyone built?
I dont think anyone get around to finishing any of them.
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Old 29-10-2006, 04:49 PM   #4
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After all that excitment between everyone too!
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Old 29-10-2006, 05:29 PM   #5
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Why a model race are you all to scared of gettin cold!!
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Old 29-10-2006, 05:34 PM   #6
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Why a model race are you all to scared of gettin cold!!
For shits & giggles space man!
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Old 29-10-2006, 05:39 PM   #7
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Funny really that out of the people that have posted so far only one turned up to the last one
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Old 29-10-2006, 05:40 PM   #8
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Yeah what happened to all those models everyone built?
I bought some bits and put them on the table, they're still there now!!!
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I bought some bits and put them on the table, they're still there now!!!
is that the batteries that you placed on the kitchen table approx 10 months ago then??? did they not even get moved for christmas?
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Old 29-10-2006, 05:54 PM   #10
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Cant remember, think I got em just after xmas!!!
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Old 29-10-2006, 06:53 PM   #11
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Yeah what happened to all those models everyone built?
In the same place as the "Cotton Reel Tanks" from the year before
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Old 29-10-2006, 08:03 PM   #12
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My model boat was a bit of a failure!
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Old 29-10-2006, 09:09 PM   #13
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Re: Boat Winter Video Night?

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Are we having one?
I was just talking to the bald curmudgeon about this the other day, saying we ought to give the FGT a nudge.

So Mr F, what do you reckon?
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Old 29-10-2006, 10:07 PM   #14
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Na, was't gonna bother this year.

Of course, that doesn't stop someone else doing one.
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Old 29-10-2006, 10:09 PM   #15
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My model boat was a bit of a failure!
What happened jon?
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Na, was't gonna bother this year.

Of course, that doesn't stop someone else doing one.
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Old 29-10-2006, 10:22 PM   #17
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What happened jon?
I think I got a bit greedy with engine weight & power..

As soon as you tried to turn the wick up a bit, it would lay over very harshly on it's port sponson (torque reaction) and hook!

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Old 29-10-2006, 10:30 PM   #18
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What happened with the scale model Phantom exel?
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Old 29-10-2006, 10:34 PM   #19
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tis sitting in my orifice
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Old 29-10-2006, 10:39 PM   #20
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