racing RC cars is one thing...but scaled naval battles?

[LukeA]

I doubt there are actual air combat groups.
Water combat = ships sink and you recover them when the excitement is over.
Air combat = planes are shot down and get transformed into lots of expensive bits of balsa and plastic.

They use relatively cheap and durable cut-foam models.

 

[prof]

hmm, what about a .22 or maybe even a 410 shell?

recoil would be horrid, though.

I assume (hope) they take appropriate safety precautions.

Sounds fun, but I'm glad I don't live close enough...

 

[Illum]

hmm, what about a .22 or maybe even a 410 shell?
recoil would be horrid, though.

I don't think their propulsion systems capable of countering that kinda recoil...and a 410 might just take out the balsa turret assembly :naughty:
a .22 maybe....but anything greater might look something like this in scale
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/2e/Uss_iowa_bb-61_pr.jpg
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/ea/BB61_USS_Iowa_BB61_broadside_USN.jpg

I wonder if anyone came up with a functioning scale model of Yamato yet
http://s60.photobucket.com/albums/h38/Rssl_wei/Yamato/

its a class of its own :naughty:

 

[LukeA]

I wonder if anyone came up with a functioning scale model of Yamato yet
http://s60.photobucket.com/albums/h38/Rssl_wei/Yamato/
http://i60.photobucket.com/albums/h38/Rssl_wei/Yamato/1177981306_2394.jpg http://i60.photobucket.com/albums/h38/Rssl_wei/Yamato/1177980939_5778.jpg
its a class of its own :naughty:

Not against aircraft...

 

[Illum]

well...as far as vessels are concerned

 

[Aaron1100us]

Anyone ever been to the [SIZE=-1]Byron's Aviation Expo in Ankeny, Iowa? It used to be in Ida Grove. Not sure if they still have it, haven't been there in years. Anyways, it was an R/C air show that lasted 5 days and at the end, they would reenact Pearl Harbor with R/C planes, huge R/C battleships and R/C tanks. They would blow the planes up in mid air and they had barrels of fuel behind a hill that they would explode into giant fire balls where you could even feel the heat. But looking on the internet, I can't seem to find much on it so I don't think they do it anymore.
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[Empyfree]

Were any of you lucky enough to visit Scarborough in the UK at all during the 80/90's

At Peaseholm (Peaceholme?) Park they held naval battles every day viewed by a paying audience on tiered seating. They weren't RC though, they were manned by a human sitting down in the hull of the boat, looking out through a slit in the superstructure! They were powered and great fun to watch. I think they fired blank rounds, the sound was awesome! Even better they had a submarine which occasionally showed up and sank people!

The grand finale of every show was the "Air Raid" where two model planes would shoot down tensioned wires (I think with a line-rocket for effect) and win the day!


Regarding the original post, it would be cool if you could call in artillery, i.e. the owner could be on the shore with a shotgun! Might not be quite in the spirit of things though!

Edit - This brought it all back to me! Had to google this to see if it still happened, check out the youtube video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_7R6Pf7fZdI

 

[Illum]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_7R6Pf7fZdI

holy jesus...this makes the North Texas battle group look like a bunch of amateurs
from the billowing stack down to the details of the bridge and forecastle...:wow: unbelievable