Tyco Airboat (Pix/Vid)

[98 SNAKE EATER]

Picked this up at Toy R Us yesterday :)




http://www.fuelslut.net/hosting/uploads/swamprat.JPG
http://www.fuelslut.net/hosting/uploads/swamprat2.JPG



Gotta love the cardboard Pilot :D

http://www.fuelslut.net/hosting/uploads/swamprat3.JPG



It's the perfect size for G.I. JOE's, so I'm gunna glue a few of their asses to the seats ;)



Here's a little Video (http://98snakeeater.ls2.com/SwampRat.wmv) I shot earlier today....



A bit slow, but I'd like to upgrade to a brushless system and see this thing take flight :cool:



Rick

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[69dart]

hey
whats at the end of that white pole
looks like some snapper bubbles


any ways
looks cool
upgrade time wooo hooo

[apache480]

sorry to butt in, Snake eater it seems you like pontiac f-bodies if you want to start a f-car thread inthe O.T section. I love to talk f-cars. :D

[bugfanatic]

'snapper bubbles' HA!! Haven't laughed that hard in a while. In fact, I still can't stop snickering. That may be a neat little retrieval boat.

[69dart]

WHAT!!!!!
snapping turtles make bubbles just like that..
its just before they come up or just before they snap something up..
i used to have crap loads in my old pond

[scorpien boats]

sorry to steal the thread even more but apache does your user name have anything to do with apache boats??? :)

[apache480]

scorpien, yes it does thats the style of r/c boats I run and also my dream fullsize performance boat. :cool:

[98 SNAKE EATER]

A few updated pix ;)


http://www.fuelslut.net/hosting/uploads/airboatfigures.JPG
http://www.fuelslut.net/hosting/uploads/airboatfigures2.JPG
http://www.fuelslut.net/hosting/uploads/airboatfigures3.JPG
http://www.fuelslut.net/hosting/uploads/airboatfigures4.JPG
http://www.fuelslut.net/hosting/uploads/airboatfigures5.JPG

[scorpien boats]

hey, are you really gonna go brushless??/ that would be sweeet!!
It would be like the ultimate sleeper.

[Brother]

Hey Snake, Have you ever thought of building an airboat from scratch? The store boughts are ok... but you could have the boat of your dreams. You could go electric or... NITRO! Yeah!!!! Check this out. http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y110/tojobro/airboat027.jpg Brother

[98 SNAKE EATER]

Hey Snake, Have you ever thought of building an airboat from scratch? The store boughts are ok... but you could have the boat of your dreams. You could go electric or... NITRO! Yeah!!!! Check this out. http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y110/tojobro/airboat027.jpg Brother




I picked this one up mainly cause it looks so realistic :)

The majority of R/C today lacks the realism of the models that were available when I was a kid :(

Take your airboat for example....

Have you ever seen a real airboat that looked like that :confused:

As for Nitro, well, eversince I went Gas in my 1/5th scale car, I swore I'd never go Nitro again ;)






Rick

[Brother]

Can't fault your thinking, I miss the toys I grew up with.

[dadaddyro]

Regardless of a store bought or a scrath built...the name of the game is FUN!!!
And if your having fun...kepp doing it.

I'm partial to the scratch building myself. I was born around the full size boats and have several friends that drag race full size boats professionally. I build from wood and foam. I have GPS-ed my wood boats at 35.3 mph on dry ground.

"Selph-Inflicted" Foam Step Hull (http://www.putfile.com/media.php?n=SI_Step_Hull)

"Selph-Inflicted" Foam Flat Bottom (http://www.putfile.com/media.php?n=SI_Flat_Bottom)

"Selph-Inflicted" Flat Bottom Woody (http://www.putfile.com/media.php?n=46_Luan_Demo)

[98 SNAKE EATER]

The first link is busted :(

[dadaddyro]

The links should be there now.