Screw Steamers on the Nile

[Smokeyrone]

Paddle steamers look better though don't they?

Ohhhh look a paddle steamer in 28mm!

Huh, a boat...

I built a 28mm side paddle steamer, a RC version, for use on water.  Wasnt actually powered by the paddles, though, couldnt figure out how to make it work (too much torque/resistance for the brushed engine, and the mechanics are complicated) so the side paddles were free spinning, and just spun as the boat moved, for looks.  Is actually powered by a prop that was under the stern.

   Really cool, but slow (have a RC boat that does 60mph).  Have the stuff to make a remotely controlled cannon that fires, but never finished it.  Moved on to a Ork warship ala 40k, which DOES fire bottle rockets, whistling Jupiters, and drops an M-80 mine (actually, a "Blockbuster", this waterproof killer of a firecracker that we hget at the Indian Reservation, not very legal)