RC Benchy

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UPDATE REGARDING 404 MESSAGE: Thingiverse has messed up with the latest update. Go to "thing files" and from there, download each stl-file one by one. Hopefully, Thingiverse solves this issue soon. Change log: 2019-03-03 Added per request the hull and deck as "onepiece"-pieces for you thrill-seekers who want to try that :). 2018-07-30 Added some links to other creators' accessories and mods for the RC Benchy. Check out the bottom of the page. 2018-05-16: Added a video section with YouTube videos of other creators sharing their RC Benchy builds. 2018-05-10: Added "HULL FRONT+BOW ONEPIECE", if you want to try printing the entire front end of the hull in one go. If you have a well-tuned printer, you might succeed without support material. My printer wasn't good enough, so I made the bow a separate piece. But I'm sure many of you have better-tuned printers than me, so now you can print the front half as one piece. 2018-04-25: 1: Added TRANSOM PLAIN WITH DRAINAGE, if you think water on the deck is a problem, this might be what you need. However, it also adds the risk of letting water onto the deck, so I won't guarantee its function. 2: Added some pictures of the building process at the bottom of this page. Ever since I printed my first #3DBenchy designed by Daniel Norée about a year ago from posting this, I've had the idea of making an R/C version of it. But I never got inspired enough to actually do it until I saw THENOMADSOUL_ (aka KimDIY) post a cool simple but functional RC version of the Benchy. Now I just had to get started and make my vision come true! My criteria for my model were: 1: It has to look like the real #3DBenchy as we all know it, but not necessarily be an exact replica. 2: It has to have the same water line as the original. 3: Be printed on a "standard" 200^3 print volume but still be of reasonable size to be R/C. 4: Use cheap and simple components so that anyone can make one for themselves. 5: Actually work. So, with these criteria in mind, I started working on it. This isn't really a remix of the real #3DBenchy since no dimensions are to scale with the "real" one. This is designed from scratch using the original as a reference. This is due to the real Benchys dimensions being somewhat tricky to work with IRL, let's just say it's top-heavy. But basically, the bow is more vertical than the original, and the hull is a bit wider. Below the waterline, I made the hull as big as possible without looking way too dumb, so there's lots of space for whatever I wanted to put in it, including the obviously needed ballast. The rest of the model is scaled from the original Benchy dimensions but adapted to fit the new hull shape. There are also a couple of versions of it. You can make the "original one" as a fishing boat, but you can also make a tugboat version that has a tow hook instead of the fish box behind the cabin. There's also another version of the roof with navigation lights. Please read the instructions below for needed hardware and printing and assembling instructions, etc. And if you make one, please share some pictures and/or videos of it. And please, go wild designing your own accessories for it and so on - I'd love to see what others might do with it. Perhaps if you have a printer big enough, print a full-scale version you can actually ride in yourself? Youtube video: https://youtu.be/JOiXEFOYh3E Disclaimer, the pictures and video of the completed boat show the first functioning prototype. The design of the hull has changed some since building that one, and I've yet not fully completed building the one posted in these files when posting this, therefore some changes might be done, and this is marked as a work in progress. But I'm confident enough in the design that you can build this boat as it is now, so I've made it public.