Thumbs up, both for the build itself, including the resourceful use of feathers to represent this particular boat´s signature palm leaves, and for the excellent video, with its cogent rundown of the mods necessary to make this generic model into THE PBR and to solve the handling problem.
I was a PBR sailor in the Mekong delta near Chau Doc and we did mostly night time ambushes in the canal systems near the Cambodian border and out into the Gulf of Cambodia. Stationed out of Rach Gia for a while also. The boat can turn in it's own length at high speed by digging into the chines. You need to hang on! On one of our infrequent liberties, we had to take a film crew out on the river near Binh Thuy(our supply center) and didn't want to waste what little time we had off to relax. The film crew wanted to see film the boat doing a high speed turn. The boat captain saw this as an opportunity to cut this trip short so he got up to speed, the boat crew braced for the turn, the unaware film crew lost their expensive movie camera over the side and we got to go on liberty. LOL.
Sorry to bother you but,I wondered if you could give me some insight onto things commonly found on the decks of these PBR's.Im making up a model of one of these boats but struggling to find many references of deck clutter most of the shots are taken at water level from the shore,so far iv got some MCI ration packs,tiny boxs of malbro cigarettes mop a broom and a bin
@@brucemullen3889 Cheers mate thanks for the info,Ill keep my models decks clear,and try to remove those fuel cans,Thanks again for taking the time to reply
Terry, The question I have for you is ,on the forward gun turret is to make it turn with the steering do you tap into the wire of that servo to make the gun turn with the steering?? Thanks, Keith From U.S.A.
The water problem could be from the inside in the hull near the motors or, a defect. I bet if it was coming from inside, hot glue it. No one would see the glue.
Da hat mal einer wirklich nachgedacht, prima Finish, besonders gefallen mir die aluschienen am Heck, EREBUS let´s go !! Mit Timmklappen am Heck, wippt das Boot weniger bei Vollgasfahrten.
I would like to do that RC sound card idea. Would any of those RC sound modules on eBay work for this? What I'm seeing on eBay it looks like they come in a housing, the speakers inside a housing with the sound card obviously I assume. I would just tear that apart to take the speaker out to glue it right on the hull of the boat correct?
I'm not familiar with the eBay sound modules. I used the Mr RC Sound v4.1 system with a transducer. Assuming the eBay systems are relatively similar, I don't think that just gluing a speaker to the hull will have the same effect. You want just the transducer portion of the speaker attached to the hull...effectively making the hull the speaker cone. I've never ripped apart a speaker for that purpose, so I don't know how well that would work compared to a dedicated transducer.
No reverse. I'm not sure what you mean by the center deck...but it's all stock methods of retention. The cabin is a friction fit and has pins to align it. The area behind that (with the M-60 mount) is the battery hatch and is held in place with magnets. The rear deck (with single M-2) is screwed in place.
@@Weirdflight The rear deck has no magnet attachment and no magnets included!?? Yeah, reverse throttle and the motors turn but the boat receives no reverse thrust. Strange. Do you have any pix of the magnet hold down? Thanks
Hallo Mr. Dunn, first of all i like to say to you, that i love your video. Please can you tell me more about the soundsystem you use in the boat. I want to know the name of the product an how can i get it. I come from Bavaria, Germany and i want to have the same sound as you have. Where can i install the speaker. How much did it cost. Thanks for your reply.... Michael
@@Weirdflight Damn shame. Have my model of the same boat arriving next week. Keen to weather it etc but I cannot find any figures that the right scale and style. Any suggestions. The motor speaker sounds really good.
@@nickalderson4563 I used the Elite force 1/18-scale Marine Recon set (bought from Amazon), ditched some of the modern equipment and helmets, and repainted them OD to help them look the part.
Hi Terry, I have a question. Is the turret connected with the steeringservo by a rod? Or did you use a Y-servocable and connect it with same channel as the steeringservo? Nice video by the way! I also saw your report on tested. Great work! Thanks a lot! Grtz Rudy
Thanks! The turret attaches directly to the output shaft of a dedicated servo. The transmitter I use has mixing options. So, I set up a mix with steering as master and the turret as slave. Using a switch on the TX, I can make it so that the turret turns in the same direction or opposite of the steering. A y-cable would work just as well, but you would not have the ability to choose turret direction. I would eventually like to attach the turret servo to an arduino or pi programmed to randomize its movement.
![[Vietnam] Riverine Warfare & Patrol Boat River PBR (Documentary)](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/Dvk2M2qdaoY/mqdefault.jpg)
Probably, no certainly the best presentation and detail I have viewed to date....Thank you
DUDE!-YOU FORGOT LANCE JOHNSON'S SURFBOARD LASHED TO THE CANOPY!
Thumbs up, both for the build itself, including the resourceful use of feathers to represent this particular boat´s signature palm leaves, and for the excellent video, with its cogent rundown of the mods necessary to make this generic model into THE PBR and to solve the handling problem.
My favourite film of all time, cool replica
Well done Terry! That is brilliant!
Nice build and really nice details👍
Very cool.
Could add some Rolling Stones music "I Can't Get No Satisfaction" music to the boat running!" That would put the frosting on the cake! :)
Now this is a cool boat!Excellent work too!Thanks👍
I was a PBR sailor in the Mekong delta near Chau Doc and we did mostly night time ambushes in the canal systems near the Cambodian border and out into the Gulf of Cambodia. Stationed out of Rach Gia for a while also. The boat can turn in it's own length at high speed by digging into the chines. You need to hang on! On one of our infrequent liberties, we had to take a film crew out on the river near Binh Thuy(our supply center) and didn't want to waste what little time we had off to relax. The film crew wanted to see film the boat doing a high speed turn. The boat captain saw this as an opportunity to cut this trip short so he got up to speed, the boat crew braced for the turn, the unaware film crew lost their expensive movie camera over the side and we got to go on liberty. LOL.
Sorry to bother you but,I wondered if you could give me some insight onto things commonly found on the decks of these PBR's.Im making up a model of one of these boats but struggling to find many references of deck clutter most of the shots are taken at water level from the shore,so far iv got some MCI ration packs,tiny boxs of malbro cigarettes mop a broom and a bin
@@brucemullen3889 Cheers mate thanks for the info,Ill keep my models decks clear,and try to remove those fuel cans,Thanks again for taking the time to reply
@@brucemullen3889 do you remember what colour the actual flotation ring was?
That’s cool, I want one, really like the engine sound and rotating front gun
Terry, The question I have for you is ,on the forward gun turret is to make it turn with the steering do you tap into the wire of that servo to make the gun turn with the steering?? Thanks, Keith From U.S.A.
Great info!
Thanks for the tips!
Great Job Terry! But I cant find the documents in "tested", it said:
Unfortunately, all of my articles went away when they revamped the site a while back.
@@Weirdflight OK, thank you. Please, I cant see the steering system; is the nozzle canging the jet direcction?
@@angelfocanti8544 Yes, the nozzles swivel for steering control.
“ Is that you Lazzaro?” “
Fire on the canopy!!”
...nice work...! 👍
...next you should buid a sampan in the same scale...!
It needs a scaled 8'6 Yater Spoon surfboard as stolen from Colonel Kilgore. Great model.
Was the surf board stealing part only in the redux version I can't remember
@@KennethWhiteakaruckusbringa Yes, it was just in the Redux version. The model is completely accurate to the cinematic release. A really great model.
@@alanbinks6106 a sound card with the colonel asking for his board back wound be a nice touch lol
wow very scale boat! Thanks for the info
good camera view!
Amazing and well done
great video
Well done..!
The water problem could be from the inside in the hull near the motors or, a defect. I bet if it was coming from inside, hot glue it. No one would see the glue.
Da hat mal einer wirklich nachgedacht, prima Finish, besonders gefallen mir die aluschienen am Heck, EREBUS let´s go !! Mit Timmklappen am Heck, wippt das Boot weniger bei Vollgasfahrten.
I would like to do that RC sound card idea.
Would any of those RC sound modules on eBay work for this?
What I'm seeing on eBay it looks like they come in a housing, the speakers inside a housing with the sound card obviously I assume. I would just tear that apart to take the speaker out to glue it right on the hull of the boat correct?
I'm not familiar with the eBay sound modules. I used the Mr RC Sound v4.1 system with a transducer. Assuming the eBay systems are relatively similar, I don't think that just gluing a speaker to the hull will have the same effect. You want just the transducer portion of the speaker attached to the hull...effectively making the hull the speaker cone. I've never ripped apart a speaker for that purpose, so I don't know how well that would work compared to a dedicated transducer.
Very good job bravo
Cool
I like to have one PBR and PCF. You have them for sale.
Will your boat go in REVERSE? How did you hold down the center deck to the hull?
No reverse. I'm not sure what you mean by the center deck...but it's all stock methods of retention. The cabin is a friction fit and has pins to align it. The area behind that (with the M-60 mount) is the battery hatch and is held in place with magnets. The rear deck (with single M-2) is screwed in place.
@@Weirdflight The rear deck has no magnet attachment and no magnets included!?? Yeah, reverse throttle and the motors turn but the boat receives no reverse thrust. Strange. Do you have any pix of the magnet hold down? Thanks
Hallo Mr. Dunn, first of all i like to say to you, that i love your video. Please can you tell me more about the soundsystem you use in the boat. I want to know the name of the product an how can i get it. I come from Bavaria, Germany and i want to have the same sound as you have. Where can i install the speaker. How much did it cost. Thanks for your reply.... Michael
Sorry, I don't know why I didn't see this question until just now. I used the Mr RC Sound V4.1 system. You can buy it from Motion RC for $120.
Nice job, mine is on similar lines, lets face it the only PBR that any one knows of is erebus....
how tall is the action figures
What did you use to keep the figure in place?
small dabs of Household GOOP
the drain plug lets in water...what can we do about that ?
There are sailor figures out there if you look hard enough. Just saying. Nice model 👌
What spec battery did use? An EC3 but what MAH? 5000 ? 2200 ? 3300?
I typically use a 2-cell 2200mAh LiPo.
OK, thanks
The links above take me to the Adam Savage pages. Can't find your articles. Any idea how I can find them?
Oh...right. Tested rehosted the page a few months ago and purged a lot of the old content. Most of my RC-related articles did not make the cut. :(
@@Weirdflight Damn shame. Have my model of the same boat arriving next week. Keen to weather it etc but I cannot find any figures that the right scale and style. Any suggestions. The motor speaker sounds really good.
@@nickalderson4563 I used the Elite force 1/18-scale Marine Recon set (bought from Amazon), ditched some of the modern equipment and helmets, and repainted them OD to help them look the part.
@@Weirdflight That's a great help. thank you .
Anyway I can buy one of those custom turn fins from you?
Sorry, but I don't have any spares.
@@Weirdflight Bummer. Can i get the dimensions for your final draft and material recommendation? Thanks
Hi Terry, I have a question. Is the turret connected with the steeringservo by a rod? Or did you use a Y-servocable and connect it with same channel as the steeringservo? Nice video by the way! I also saw your report on tested. Great work! Thanks a lot! Grtz Rudy
Sorry i looked it over on tested. You've already discribed it. Thanks anyway, its very helpfull.
Thanks! The turret attaches directly to the output shaft of a dedicated servo. The transmitter I use has mixing options. So, I set up a mix with steering as master and the turret as slave. Using a switch on the TX, I can make it so that the turret turns in the same direction or opposite of the steering. A y-cable would work just as well, but you would not have the ability to choose turret direction. I would eventually like to attach the turret servo to an arduino or pi programmed to randomize its movement.
Thanks for the quick response! I have a different options now to choose! Thanks and keep up the good works!
...VERY NICE BRO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! THANKS!!! :)
Did u glue ur figures on the boat
Yes. With GOOP adhesive.
Never getout of the boat man.
khyron6 that was the chef. 😎
did you ever figure out where the water was comming from
No, I've never really put much effort into tracking it down.
@@Weirdflight I wonder if a water pump would work
What size figures are those?
1/18-scale
in reverse it does work and don't why >>would you know ??
Name of the music song please
It's a song my son wrote called "802".
I rode a real one in 69-70
NEVER GET OUT OF THE BOAT
Where’s Charlie
"Charlie don't surf!"
I just wanted a mango
Power sorse
What is the power sourse
@@alansmith6387 The battery I use most often is a 2-cell 2200mAh LiPo.