Lego Model Boat

[ZnEaKySpyNL]

@Joakim441

I think he used a metal piece, same shape as the hole of a legopart, and used vaseline to make it watertight.

[ZnEaKySpyNL]

The motor, rudder and shaft/ prop are the only non LEGO items. The hull is built bread and butter fashion with '3 slices of bread' every 8mm up the hull. All parts are then solvent bonded to the surrounding parts, so if you stick a part in the wrong place you have to use a chisel to get it out, once the full hull was built a layer of glass fibre tissue and resin was added on the inside to waterproof the

model.

Found this on the website:

modelboatmayhem.c o.u k/Modellers/Guy/Lego.h tm

[RuncornSMBC]

@ZnEaKySpyNL

Hi Could not get your link to work, However I know the Chap who built it, and am aware of the Model Boat Mayhem Forum.

Thanks

[ZnEaKySpyNL]

@RuncornSMBC

Thats because you cant put a link in a comment so i have put 3 spaces in it.

Between .c o. .u k/  and h tm

If you remove those spaces it will work cause i have tested it

[RuncornSMBC]

@ZnEaKySpyNL

Doh should have noticed .. Yes Thanks, I was aware of the info and should have twigged the link

[ZnEaKySpyNL]

@RuncornSMBC

Took me also some time in the beginning to find out why my comments diddnt get posted haha:P

So stupid, but understandable. Spamming websites these days is one big hype

[pancaikmix45]

Looks like a Trawler Really cool though

[cunardBigLusy]

ok now lets ram a iceberg into them! LOL at 0:10 little lifeboat zooming around! XD

[dendecmaartens]

this makes me wanna beat all the other lego-builders. with making better lego projects! haha. :p

[MrTitanic9]

omg best lego boat ever!!!!!

[pugsleys6]

ahh sick :D

[whatismyname8]

dang how u do that



[AnkerZone]

Complimenti veramente bella!!!

Congratulations very beautiful!!!

[sarter11]

anyone see the little zodiack

[cod5x]

someone should go fullscale woth this

[slo1215]

My friend was Driving that and he Said Its only alf lego

[RuncornSMBC]

@slo1215

Well your Freind who says it is only half lego, better go back again and look at it a bit more closely as apart from the electronics and a few supports bars it is All Lego.

[ZnEaKySpyNL]

@slo1215

Dude, thats all legoXD

[SMGJohn]

@slo1215 That's because he only has half brain

[ZnEaKySpyNL]

@slo1215

Friends in your head cant think for themself

[iphonemovie100]

awesome!!!

[RuncornSMBC]

@Joakim441 Fibreglass resin, poured into the insides to seal it .

[TopGun904]

Looks like you're pulling it with a string... :)

[motercycles5]

i wounder what there sealing them with so that they can keep the water out?

[RuncornSMBC]

@motercycles5

Sealed with Fibreglass resin

[starlionblue]

@RuncornSMBC would clear nail polish or varnish work too?

[HedgieRobot72]

Pretty sweet if I do say so myself



[Tundraboy05]

isn't that a trawler?

[santascaresme2]

that is awesome im gonna make a fishing boat or something like that

[RuncornSMBC]

@santascaresme2 Be nice to see, The boat on the clip was also at the show again last year but the top half has taken a few knocks and I think will get a bit of tlc for this years show

[santascaresme2]

@RuncornSMBC awsome

[kuruptedchild]

that is cool

[legomoviestudio1]

wow

[Dirtboy101]

how do you prevent water from coming in through the gaps in the propeller shaft?

[Terralac125]

wow

[Mario85555]

lol,

I saw a small speed boat pass by

[rubinmeneps]

dont drop it.. sweet boat too

[Tundraboy05]

epic pwnage, good job.

[gschjetne]

Fascinating!

How is it waterproofed?

[RuncornSMBC]

Coated with Fibreglass resin on the inside of the hull.

[gschjetne]

It's a beautiful boat, but I'm too much of a purist to do anything permanent.

[legocarsinc565]

wow

[legocarsinc565]

are all the boats lego?

[fear606]

ya.

[RuncornSMBC]

No just this one, all the others are either scratch built , or built froma kit.

[legoairsoftbatmanrs2]

It really is pretty well balanced on the water, good job.

[mibs959]

A W S O M E ! ! ! =D

[nickerman55]

wat motor did u use

[RuncornSMBC]

I believe

its direct drive to the shaft, the motor is a 12 volt smiths type car heater style motor,

[DudukIsTehBest]

it just needs some LEGO weaponry on it! Some Lego Technic torpedo shooters, and like, oh man, the missile launching thoughts that come to mind.. make war with the other brittle boat models!

[ferrarienzo97bgw]

Where did you film this

[RuncornSMBC]

Short clip of a Model boat Built out of 12,000 lego bricks being sailed at The International Model Boat show at Warwick 2008

[TheFatAssCat]

how did you seal off the motor? do you have a motor high on the boat that drive the propellor via chain? (thats what i do)

[RuncornSMBC]

To my knowledge the motor is direct to the shaft , the whole of the inside of the lego hull is sealed with resin,

[bigbaggles]

its direct drive to the shaft, the motor is a 12 volt smiths type car heater style motor, the boat is 48 inches long.

[spear913]

Awesome boat. It even moves realistically.

[Gildereufickthard]

lol

it`s LEGO?

cool

[tatazike]

Fake ! it's not pure lego bricks ;)

Lego sinks instantly ;)

[MintSource3000]

Oh how little you know.

each brick has been glued and as such is sealed , inside is then coated with resin to stop any water getting in. So how is it fake !! I have seen it ., I have looked inside it. It is all lego bricks except the motor .

[tatazike]

If that is all lego bricks (except the motor) it doesn't like it :S

[tatazike]

Forget, it's not fake ok ?, but your boat is strange (it's perfect, is near from the reality) nice vid ;)

and sorry for the stupid comment, i was drunk last night :S

[tatazike]

Ok :D

Nice work..

Keep doind this great vids ;)

[MintSource3000]

Oh and the guy who built it works for legoland at Windsor building the lego displays there.

[modelman66]

my god if it has lead batterys for ballast it could take out many a good ship is it an ice breaker too lol. best keep it and send it out first on the pond in winter

[modelman66]

why? is it glued together i thought it would just fall apart,thats the fun of lego.how big is it?

[RuncornSMBC]

Each brick has been glued on and then epoxied with fibreglass resin (or similar) inside the Hull. It is about 3 foot long.

[modelman66]

ha,ha thats pretty cool skipper how many knots does she do.

[RuncornSMBC]

Put it this way , I would not like to be another model should you be accidental hit by it. Considering what it is built of it sailed very nicely.