1:12 Miss Elam

[Scott Lambert]

cowl getting some finishing touch's before prime & paint

the nose has been fixed & primed

sanding the bottom for paint

bottom painted in white

this is what I'm trying to make it look like

 

[hugh hargett]

Take your time scott and you will make it look like that. just make sure you get the edges feathered good on your cowl . You may need to prime it on time to see where the flaws are. Are you going to make it a LSH boat? meaning are you going to put a 4s lipo ul setup in it?

 

[Scott Lambert]

At the moment i was going to put the proboat engine back into it & get it back on the water with the new batteries.

Once I'm happy with it I'll order a new esc & ul1 motor

prop wise i have a selection of 35 - 45mm 2 blade & 3 blade props to try soit should be interesting, also just got a small garmin gps unit to put into the boat for speed testing.

Yeah the cowl has a bit more to go on it, I'm just about to prime it. The boat is drying so when it's dry I'll do a fit up & make sure the cowl fits

It's getting there, slowly hopefully in the next few days i'll get the red paint onto the boat & add more pictures then

 

[hugh hargett]

Id take darins advice on the props The man simply runs alot so his real world knowledge is vast.

54 mph on that hull will really look fast. 54 on that small motor is really nice.

Cant wait to see it run.

 

[Scott Lambert]

Time for an update, been doing some spray paint work to the boat

hull & cowl painted

the cowl

the inside of the cowl

masking up & painting the yellow

The finish so far

all done for tonight, time to go & rest & finish the rest tomorrow & then start the rebuild

 

[hugh hargett]

Wat did u get done today?

 

[Scott Lambert]

masking up for the windows

freshly unwrapped

side view

bottom of the hull

starting to put it back together

 

[hugh hargett]

Looks Great. Didnt realize your motor was a 3674 can . This will run real nice when you are done. Have you sharpened and balanced your props?

 

[Scott Lambert]

All back together

Starting the silver

Done highlights around the window

All done

now its time to balance the props & get onto the stickers. Just have to wait & see how much time i have over Easter to finish it off

 

[hugh hargett]

any updates?

 

[Scott Lambert]

Nice new 3 Blade prop to try

Stckers Under the boat just like the real boat

Side sticker just like the real boat

All finished off (side view)

All finished off (front veiw)

On Displace at Lake Eppalock in Victoria, Australia with my other boat's I've built

hopefully in the next few weeks we can go for some water time, once i do that i'll upload some footage & pictures

 

[Scott Lambert]

Just an update for you

Got the boat running on the water today, bat saddly lost the cowl!

it ran 50.3 km/h with the standard set up

so time to build another cowl & put the new 120 amp esc into it for another speed test

is the footage

 

[Jeff Ross]

Hey Scott.

I currently have a a Elam I have done similar to your removed the wings and put in a UL-1 motor.

I heat race it and have been using a 443 Aluminum prop. At moment it is running 46.5mph consistently.

I still have tweaking and tuning to do but this is my "safe" reliable setup.

Runs smooth and good acceleration. The boat does like to lift so I have taped off the first break in the tunnel from the canards back to the tunnel floor which seams to help a lot with the added speed.

I am probably going to test out the stock motor some and see what I can do with that. eventually.

Have fun and boat is looking good!

 

[Scott Lambert]

So far the boat hasn't wanted to lift. Its sitting really well on the water & Im just starting to look for a little more speed.

I've made amould & a new cowl so it would be easy to start making more cowls if needed, only this time i've put cowl locks into the setup to keep it on the boat no matter whats going to happen.

I've just gotten a 120amp esc so im keen to see how that goes.

it's 90grams lighter than the proboat version & the new cowl it 103 grams total, 2 grams heavier than the proboat version but i have cowl locks which they dont.

rear veiw of the cowl

front view of the cowl

fully painted version

hopefully i can go out for testing again & run with the gps to see the speed difference with everything done

Im going to put the boat on the scales to see about the weight difference once the new items are in & working

Next upgrade will be to a new motor & maybe a bigger prop

 

[hugh hargett]

Very Nice! Scott. Put some cowl locks on next time though. It looks like it running a little wet. Lossen her up a bit.and get that transom up out of the water.

 

[Scott Lambert]

Took the boat & ran it yesturday

I've put a 42mm prop onto it & have upgraded the esc to a 120 amp seaking. It was just out of the packet & didn't put the contrl card on it to adjust it, just wanted to see how things went as they where

The first run was witht the old prop (40mm) & it ran 42.7 a little slower than the 50.3 with the old proboat esc. Swapped the prop & it went up to 57.1km/h, now im looking around for the program card for the esc to fine turn it up. Hopefully I can find a little more speed once thats done before dropping in a new brushless 2300kv motor

was the run that we did

 

[hugh hargett]

Have you got you 2300 kv motor yet? It should really move well when u do that. Its handling nicely as is B) .

 

[Jeff Ross]

Boat is looking good.

Little tweak here and there.

You should try a larger prop with the proboat motor.

We run them with 447 props in our 1/10 scale hydroplanes no problem.

I ran a 645 on my proboat motor in my elam and got 41 mph.

Like hugh said the 2300kv motor jump you up quit a bit in speed but keep the prop size down!

 

[Darin Jordan]

Guys... I've had my Miss Elam up to well into the 50's using the 1500KV PB motor, but it take a lot of pitch, and the handling suffers. The boat really came alive with the higher KV,, smaller prop setup.

Like the new cowl. I've been thinking of making a cowl that doesn't have any scoop at all, so I can turn this into an "Unlimited Light" style hull instead, to get rid of the drag, and to keep the weight down... or at least help to shift the weight forward...

 

[hugh hargett]

Scott, I dont know if this is the same elam motor you have . If it is; heres some of its potential: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lijVS_FGYos old video but it's cookin' B)