Remote Control Boats!

Whew! It's been a while since I have had a chance to publish on my Model Ships blog. Has it been since June? WOW! At any rate, there have been so many changes at QualityModelShips.com and all of them are good.

We have added lots of new products, our most recent of which are some extremely hot Remote Control Boats. We have at least 10-20 more remote control boats in the pipeline and they'll be up and for sale between today and tomorrow. In fact, why don't we say they'll definitely be up for Cyber Monday!

My favorite remote control boat is the Wicked Angel 2 Remote Control Boat. It sells for $379.99 and shipping is FREE! Here are it's features:

RC Boat - NITRO SPEEDBOAT W/ RADIO & TUNED EXHAUST

The race ready Wicked Angel is a pro-competition nitro ocean racer. This 30-inch long, 35MPH boat featres Megatech's 2.7cc Nitro Mariner engine with unique AquaRam water cooling feature. From stem to stern, every design feature found on this model was put there for one reason-to make it go faste!

Wicked Angel's modified V hull design featuring multiple planning strakes for breaking up wate surface tension, the biggest drag-causing factor on any race boat, and the Wicked Angel's planing strakes are placed at serveral points on the hull's bottom to defeat this speed-robbing phenomenon. As a result-this boat literallly flies over the water's surface.

Other full race features include heavy-duty drive shaft with bronze phosphorous bushings, triple shoe centrifugal clutch, quick-fill racing tank, shaft oiler reservoir and sealed radio box. The Wicked Angel comes fully assembled with engine and 2 channel radio installed and guaranteed to ecite any onlookers!

M16 1+ HP Nitro Water Cooled Motor
- Tuned Exhaust System
- Custom tuned High Speed Prop
- Water proof Sealed Radio Box
- 35+ mph Out Of The Box
- Adjustable trim tabs and skid fins
- 15-20 Minute run time
- 2 Channel FM Radio

Now includes a precision machined T6 aluminum Q-Series tuned pipe for 30% more power, superior cooling and enhanced throttle response!

Features:
*Machined Aluminum Q-Series Tuned Pipe
*Gas Completer Combo
*Fuel
*Glow ignitor
*Glow Plug,
*Glow Plug Wrench
*12 AA Batteries

This product can be searched for by using the following descriptions: rc boat, rc nitro, racing boat, nitro boat, rc nitro boat

So, don't forget to stop by QualityModelShips.com this Black Friday and throughout the rest of the holiday season. We have lots of great sales going and free shipping on many of our products. We look forward to having you shop around. Make us your last stop for your model boat, model ship, remote control boat or all kinds of nautical gifts needs.

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Quality Model Ships Has a New Design!

"Quality Model Ships has a new design!" written by Nick Amaro, Owner of QualityModelShips.com.

After some research and analyzing the look of qualitymodelships.com, we decided it was time for a new look. The new design features gives the site a more simple and calm look to it, yet the strength, quality and charm of the site is still there.

One of the main reasons for the change is to make the site more search engine friendly and at the same time focus on the customer's ease to navigate through the site and take advantage of the many fascinating products qualitymodelships.com offers. The site also has included some new products such as chess sets, lanterns, and world globes to give it an even more nautical decor feel to it.

This new design will surely make your shopping experience at QualityModelShips.com a pleasing success. We welcome you to our store.

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The Wooden Boat Show

I wish I could attend the 2007 Wooden Boat Show being held between June 29th - July 1st, 2007. It's the 16th Annual Wooden Boat Show being held in Mystic, Connecticut, and it promises to be extraordinary. I will be up in Connecticut, but later on in the year, so I will not be able to attend, but maybe you will.

According to the WoodenBoat Magazine here are some of the highlights:

Celebrate Wooden Boats
Explore 100+ land and in-water exhibits. Step aboard more than 50 extraordinary wooden boats. Attend informative workshops and seminars. Watch families build and launch boats. Discover the Mystic Seaport 19th century seafaring village.

Call Now for more information - 800-273-7447 - TheWoodenBoatShow.com.

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Wooden Boat Rescue Foundation

In surfing the web, I come across many great finds and today I found a website that truly stands out for boat lovers. I am thus honored to present to you the Wooden Boat Rescue Foundation, a foundation truly dedicated to the love of wooden boats. Their link is found here - http://www.woodenboatrescue.org/.

Their mission is simple. "The Wooden Boat Rescue Foundation is dedicated to placement, saving, locating, researching, wishing, learning and dreaming of wooden boats. All boats are free."

They are in need of help, so if you can be of service, I encourage you. They "desperately need indoor storage for boats in transit...and boat builders and yards to volunteer time or reduce rates for moving or working on these boats."

Wooden Boats are a work of art as are their models. If you are looking for a wooden model boat, don't hesitate to stop by our model boats and ships store. We definitely have what you are looking for!

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Model Ship Types

When one thinks of a model ship, almost immediately one thinks about a fully rigged model. However, there are all types of model ships from framed models to hull models and even waterline models. Wolfrand Zu Mondfeld, in his book Historic Ship Models assigns honor to all model ships regardless of how fully rigged or not they are.

It seems evident though that he favors fully rigged models as many of us do. One is simply drawn to the splendor of such a model in all its glory. One can immediately imagine a fully rigged ship at sea even hearing the ooos and ahhs of its first sail. Mondfeld says, "Without wishing to denigrate other types of model, I would strongly recommend the fully rigged model to any model maker who does not have an irreversible repulsion to the vast number of cords and threads involved in the rigging."

He then goes on to discuss rigged model types breaking down the fully rigged models without sails, with furled sails, with partially set sails and with sails fully set. It goes without saying, but I'll say it anyway, It is truly up to you which model you are interested in building since the time and energy that will go into building your model ship is all your own, but I'm sure you will be proud of any type of model ship you build as would I.

Here are a few model ship kits to choose from.

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The Sovereign of the Seas

The history of the Sovereign of the Seas is as fascinating and romantic as the tall ship itself. To quote The History of the Ship by Richard Woodman,the Sovereign of the Seas was "a grandiloquent ship in every sense of the word." Her grandeur exceeded all of the other tall ships of her time at 127 feet in the keel, 48 feet in the beam, with a draught of 23.5 feet and with a tonnage of over 1500.

Her extravagant decorations and embellishments were so opulent that it is said that it was her opulence as well as the expense used to create this masterpiece which inflamed the souls of her enemies. It seemed that her glorious nature stood for everything that her enemies were against. The Sovereign of the Seas was created with an unimaginable sum of money for the political climate of the time.

The extravagant nature of this great ship served as a deterrent for use in war. Therefore, before being considered stable enough to operate as a warship, much of its initial opulence was removed from the costly decorations to many of the upperworks. After removing these decorations and upperworks, she was launched in 1637 being considered stable and operable. Thereafter she served successfully against the Dutch under the command of the English Commonwealth. The History of the Ship says she was known by the Dutch as "the golden devil." One other point that stands out is that the Sovereign of the Seas boasted 100 guns, a number that was unheard of at that time.

In 1660 she was restored to royal ownership being called the Royal Sovereign under King Charles II. Finally, she was destroyed by the fire caused by a simple overset candle. She, the Sovereign of the Seas, is truly a masterpiece of beauty and a perfect tall ship made for romance. Imagining all of the work that went into making her, it is sad to know the facts of her demise, but her historical worth is saved by authentic models created in her honor.

Reference: The History of the Ship - The comprehensive story of seafaring from the earliest times to the present day - Richard Woodman 1997, 2002

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Model Ships and Measurements

Why are many model ships built to scale, but do not include scale measurements when being described? This is a question that was presented to me some time ago by a frustrated consumer of model ships. When describing model cars one doesn't have to look very far to find scale measurements small to large. However, when purchasing an already built model ship, it seems that it is difficult to find the proper scale measurements. One usually simply gets a description with height, width, length measurements and that's that.

I have noticed that many of the model ship kits being sold do have the built to scale dimensions, but not so for the already built models. Well, today I came across a possible reason for this after reading a bit from the book Historic Model Ships by Wolfram zu Monfeld. In his book, somewhere towards the beginning he says, "Do not trust any plan!" This statement is compelling to a novice model ship builder. He even continues, "Don't even trust a good plan!"

Well, right away it is clear that he is referring to plans for building model ships which doesn't really go to the heart of why I started writing this article. The fact is that scale models are hard to come by and there is a reason. When building a ship to scale, one has to do a great deal of research to make the scale model as accurate as possible for it to be considered "authentic." In fact, Monfeld says, "The study of source material is one of the obligatory tasks for any genuine model ship builder."

Now here is the key. If you have taken the time to research the model you are building or are planning to purchase already built, you will find that "old dockyard drawings and original shipbuilding instructions often do not include a scale, and are rather unclear; they often contain more sketches than technical drawings in the present-day sense," explains Monfeld.

When I read that, it all made sense to me.

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