Gun Cam

I mounted a miniature wireless video camera on the front cannon of my almighty Scharnhorst battleship. The guns stopped working, and the forward pump was disabled, but I sailed into combat anyway. I did my best to capture the pounding I received, but unfortunately I ran out of film approximately 1 minute before my Scharnhorst sank. Such a pity, it would have been a truly spectacular video then! This is an abbreviated version with only the best footage. The complete reel of film is about 15 minutes long, and for the most part pretty boring. In the 2006 season, I hope to capture some much better footage with the lessons I learned from this.
For more information, please visit:

Club website:
http://www.westernwarshipcombat.com/

RC Naval Combat website:
http://rcnavalcombat.com/

Strike Models website:
http://www.strikemodels.com/

Category:

Entertainment

Tags:

• big
• gun
• robot
• robotic
• radio
• controlled
• model
• warship
• combat
• battle
• ship
• onboard
• camera
• cam

[iknowmy3table]

you could opt for a pocket dvr if you want to record ship pov footage, their pretty cheap like $40, but I suppose the wireless cam setup helps you in other ways

[kotori87]

@iknowmy3table Nowadays I use an RC Hero onboard camera. Not wireless, but much better quality, and fully waterproof. A few other videos I've posted were taken with the RC Hero.

[mom352]

whats the best method of making barrels going up and down

[kotori87]

@mom352 That's called "barrel depression", and the best method depends on the situation. In most cases, a simple RC servo will do the trick just fine. In some cases, you may opt for fixed depression, and in other cases you may opt for more advanced systems.

[azian1245]

you cant make the barrel go up or down?

[kotori87]

The rule is that cannons cannot point above horizontal. Given usual engagement ranges, though, we're much more interested in aiming them down to put holes below the waterline. Many battleships (including the one from the video) have methods of depressing the barrels.

[lightjedi93]

wooooooooooooow !!!!!

[siamyuth]

I have mywife,my son,my daughter and myself fortunately we can have a team of four. By the way I'm thinking about the camera type and the seperated control systems.

[kotori87]

The biggest limiting factor in this game isn't ships, nor is it accuracy. It's skippers. There are so few people who play this that getting a decent battle going is hard to do. So... you're suggesting that we, who are already lacking the people... should reduce the number of ships on the water while simultaneously reducing the action for each participant?

There's actually no rules against what you've suggested, so you're welcome to try. But you'll probably have to supply your own crew.

[siamyuth]

It's a nice beginning of the onboard rc ship battle really. May I commence about some details? Let's says if we put few cameras on each ship and control the ship by a captain and control the guns by gunners and yes the cameras for the captains must be 360 degree panable and the range of the cameras must be propered.