I honestlly do not know how much it would cost to buy working cannons and extra electronics to make a working armed pirate ship. I can build a working sailing model within my buget of about $200 dollars and a lot of time to sail rigg to servos, a 4 channel radio can leave me 2 exra servos for firing a device or raising an anchor and extra pulleys.
If you are refering to getting special cannons that fire, I believe that they can be special ordered online or through hobby shops and even RC magazines. These systems are built for fighting battleships and fire bbs to sink the Enemy! Their electronics are also fully waterproof!
after searching the web to see if anyone had built a working model of the black pearl in Rc... I marched upstairs and filmed my project and up loaded this video.
that is true sometimes and in the case of RC sail boats / ships that do not have propellers , the model sailing vessel will not move if the wind were to stop,(becalmed). for that reason expert sailors always have a retrieval RC tug boat on standby and fully charged! If your in a group regatta make sure you have a friend that has one or get ready to swim!
some parks do not allow swimmer recovery so look into RC recovery kits and the latest gear.
Its a Futaba radio servo(2)made for some RC race car. the guys who sold me this crap dont care about seaworthy electronics but It works OK but there are beter controls and radios than this! One sailor can set his sails, the rudder will stay wherever he angles it even if he lets go of the controls!
the ship took 3 months to build after a twin was built in 9 months, I learned by building twin pirate ships and this model is my RC edit- some details were left out- anyways Im satified that I have 2 ships now and they both work! one though is not equipt with RC due to details which I will not corrupt! The ships were studied from the movie. I had to map the ship!this video is my first youtube video of it, I just got up and filmed my ship,I didnt expect it caused so much attention.
I am a free lance artist and I do this for a living, In fact I also built several ships in bottles as well- see the other videos! Also built the sandcastles on south beach, see videos. believe it or not I actually built 2 working ships!!! and have begun work on the FLYING DUTCHMAN.
It is hand made, sorry there are currentlly no existing kits of this ship, you will have to build it yourself.
sanddragon99 2 years ago
I think I spent 3 or 4 months building it, I am still tinkering with it, and sail it often.
sanddragon99 2 years ago
I honestlly do not know how much it would cost to buy working cannons and extra electronics to make a working armed pirate ship. I can build a working sailing model within my buget of about $200 dollars and a lot of time to sail rigg to servos, a 4 channel radio can leave me 2 exra servos for firing a device or raising an anchor and extra pulleys.
sanddragon99 3 years ago
If you are refering to getting special cannons that fire, I believe that they can be special ordered online or through hobby shops and even RC magazines. These systems are built for fighting battleships and fire bbs to sink the Enemy! Their electronics are also fully waterproof!
sanddragon99 3 years ago
It sails but doesn't shoot.
with added hardware it can also fire but it may not be a good idea because it many cause fragile parts to break off in recoil!
sanddragon99 3 years ago
The sails are held up by the mast and rigging- It is very complicated and is best refered to by studying a book on ships.
This ship is made simplified in its rigg and has been edited so that it could be simply run on 2 servos
sanddragon99 3 years ago
Whats a Rar?!!!
the rudder is controlled by a servo and the sails as well the sail servo has a very long arm for extra leverage- did you mean spar?
sanddragon99 3 years ago
after searching the web to see if anyone had built a working model of the black pearl in Rc... I marched upstairs and filmed my project and up loaded this video.
It is one of my first films uploaded.
sanddragon99 3 years ago
the Hull is ablot 2 and a half feet long and its about a foot at its widest point.
sanddragon99 3 years ago
that is true sometimes and in the case of RC sail boats / ships that do not have propellers , the model sailing vessel will not move if the wind were to stop,(becalmed). for that reason expert sailors always have a retrieval RC tug boat on standby and fully charged! If your in a group regatta make sure you have a friend that has one or get ready to swim!
some parks do not allow swimmer recovery so look into RC recovery kits and the latest gear.
sanddragon99 3 years ago
Its a Futaba radio servo(2)made for some RC race car. the guys who sold me this crap dont care about seaworthy electronics but It works OK but there are beter controls and radios than this! One sailor can set his sails, the rudder will stay wherever he angles it even if he lets go of the controls!
sanddragon99 3 years ago
Its made with coffee stirrers and water proofed with a surfboard resin. scale is 1/4 and was copied by studying the movie.
sanddragon99 4 years ago
the ship took 3 months to build after a twin was built in 9 months, I learned by building twin pirate ships and this model is my RC edit- some details were left out- anyways Im satified that I have 2 ships now and they both work! one though is not equipt with RC due to details which I will not corrupt! The ships were studied from the movie. I had to map the ship!this video is my first youtube video of it, I just got up and filmed my ship,I didnt expect it caused so much attention.
sanddragon99 4 years ago
Thanks , I sound like such a nerd here in this video but hey Nerds are the one who build the stuff that technically kicks ass!
sanddragon99 4 years ago
I am a free lance artist and I do this for a living, In fact I also built several ships in bottles as well- see the other videos! Also built the sandcastles on south beach, see videos. believe it or not I actually built 2 working ships!!! and have begun work on the FLYING DUTCHMAN.
sanddragon99 4 years ago
Thank you for any feed back and comments, checkout my other video of the ship in sailing action!
sanddragon99 4 years ago