Looking for custom ship builder

[tugboater]

I am looking for someone that can make custom ships. I want to build a 7-12 foot long cruise ship, based on modern ships that are in service. I want to mix it with a Carnival ship and a Royal Caribbean ship, mixing them together to create a unique cruise liner. I want to have horn sound, full lighted interior, windows, lighted and highly detailed deck. I want it to be detailed as this will be a nice boat to show off in my back yard (I live on a lake). Please send me a message if you can give me some sort of quote. I don't care if it is powered by electric, gas, or nitro. I want it to be no faster than 25 scale knots. I want it to look real and respond real to the control system.

Thanks in advance!
-Ryan

[tugboater]

As I think about it, maybe it would be better to run on gas? That way I would get more run time. It will probably take more than one motor to power it I am guessing.

[Wolfmann]

I would stick with electric if i was you. It is much cleaner and a lot less hassel in a scale boat like that. You will run three motors but for the size you are looking for you need a lot of ballast and for that you can use large gel batteries like you would use in wheel chairs or full size boats. That will give you a very long running time on the lake.

[tugboater]

Thanks for your idea. My main problem is finding a builder. Anyone know of somebody they can recommend to me?

[Wolfmann]

Do you have plans of what you want. I have been building boats for over 20 years both scale and R/C. I don't know if i want to get in to building somthing that big but on the other hand it might be somthing different.

[tugboater]

I don't have any visual plans due to lack of software. I can show you pictures of ships I want to incorperate together to make a model. I can also give you a full description of features I would like to add into this boat.

[Wolfmann]

Send me what you have. Also explain how much detail you want in the building of the ship. You want to show every rivet in the hull you want detail work done on the super structure.
Send it to schwar2004@sbcglobal.net.
Also how much time do you want to invest in to this and how much money you want to sink in to this?