Full Size Printed Plans Near Scale 1:144 Paddle Wheeler P,S, Royal Falcon Suitable for radio control

Full Size Printed Plan

No material plans only

Three Pages of Photos, and Construction Notes

FULL SIZE PLAN PRINTED on 36” x 27” SHEET

1:144 Near-scale

Length 24”

Power Electric

Suitable for two channel Radio Control

By VIC SMEED

Perhaps the best known of all paddlers were those run by the General Steam Navigation Company in the Thames Estuary before the war; these boats must be remembered by millions who ever travelled on them or saw them on their trips between London and Southend. Herne Bay. Margate, etc. Royal Eagle, Crested Eagle, Golden Eagle—what memories these names evoke!

In considering a model paddler our first thought was that it should be simple. Simplicity really rules out an accurate scale model of so detailed a prototype as any of the above, but there is nothing to prevent a simple boat from looking as though it could well be a true scale model.

The result of our deliberations is Royal Falcon, which is very close to a model of Royal Eagle, but with certain simplifications. There is nothing in this boat which should offer any difficulty even to a beginner provided that he possesses the model maker's chief asset. patience. The cost in materials is extremely modest—three sheets of in. balsa and two sheets of 1/16 in. are all that most modellers will need to buy, besides the odd pot of colour and perhaps a sheet of Bristol board. Even if every part of the model was bought new including motor etc.. cost could hardly be more than £1, and at least two-thirds of this would be for the motor and paint.