1/7 Riva aquarama (4ft long!)

[tomhugill]

To me this is the daddy, since I've been dabbling in boats I've wanted a nice wooden speedboat, ideally a Riva but I considered Chris crafts and other models. The problem is there's only one kit, the Amati 1/10 aquarama which is rare and expensive. However I was looking at another boat on eBay and the fella said he had something I might like better, he was very right:











Now she looks lovely as is but is missing some key fittings to make her really stand out. To this end I'll be buying a fitting kit from a Vietnamese company who build Rivas in this scale and making some better seats.


Heres the fitting set:



In addition I'll be converting her over to brushless power with a pair of 3674 inrunners, twin 120A water cooled esc's and will run her on 2x 8000mah 4s lipos.

[Horses45]

Looking good tom , was your one that got damaged in the move repairable ?,I'm just looking at a tamiya king hauler and a couple of trailers to spray up as tank transporters lol but this here work thing spoils it

[lliw180]

wow shes a nice one mate. What you could do if you want a cheaper build is to build from scratch now with somthing like this that may sound like a tall order but look at this
http://www.svensons.com/boat/
this is a site with free compehasive planes for real boats inculing similer styles to this. If you look at the mini max i built a realy one years ago but there is no reason you coudnt scale down best of luck

[teddyt]

that is one very sweet boat, Tom loving it!!

[ALPHA]

Now this boat I like.... almost made one back in the day...I really like the wooden finish... reminds me of the boat used in "On Golden Pond"



Something very nostalgic about wood...

ALPHA

[tomhugill]

Sadly this project has had to be canned. The fella got the dimensions wrong and its actually much much bigger than I thought, more like 5 foot long and a foot wide!

[The Tank Man]

Sadly this project has had to be canned. The fella got the dimensions wrong and its actually much much bigger than I thought, more like 5 foot long and a foot wide!

What!!!! You not keeping it now then Tom

[vonmarshall]

Now she looks lovely as is but is missing some key fittings to make her really stand out. To this end I'll be buying a fitting kit from a Vietnamese company who build Rivas in this scale and making some better seats.

Heres the fitting set:

Do you have a link to that Vietnamese company? Those fittings look wonderful.

[tomhugill]

Sadly this project has had to be canned. The fella got the dimensions wrong and its actually much much bigger than I thought, more like 5 foot long and a foot wide!

What!!!! You not keeping it now then Tom

Unfortunately with it being that much bigger than I thought its going to be too big to post or fit in a car!

[The Tank Man]

Can you not get a courier to collect it Tom!
How much was it!