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• Amazon Sales Rank: #244087 in Toys & Games

Customer Reviews

another nice RC warship
I purchased one of these from another vender a short time ago. I was pleased by the level of detail. It is more toy like than the torpedo boat and Destroyer RC boats out here, but it still has impressive detail for a toy considering the size of the ship it appears to be modeled after Some of the finer details break off easily but this does not affect the function of the boat. It looks very much like a Russian Kiev Class aircraft carrier ( or "aviation cruiser") in approximately 1/350 scale. After having it for a while I plan on disassembling it and painting more to scale, it looks great as is but with a nice scale paint job it should be even better.

I have only bench tested and bath tub tested this boat as of yet. It seems to list to the side with the super structure. After running in a pond I may ad some ballast to compensate. One thing to note: the battery is more difficult to get to than other similar boats. Hooking up the provided charger it is easy but using another faster charger or changing out the battery is not so easy.

It has a neat safety feature: the motors will not run unless the boat is in the water or with some other form of conductor touching both propeller shafts. The information on the box is not real clear about this feature. I have purchased other items from Hobbytron and they are a good vender if a tad slow on shipping.

For about $50.00 with shipping it is a pretty good buy.

For something smaller and cheaper the RC Warship Electric Boat with Battery and Charger, torpedo boat from Hobbytron is also very nice. Also the "Smasher" Destroyer modeled after a Russian Sovremenny Class DDG in 1/200 scale is very nice and price similarly.