Thank you very much! It's been years of changes and rebuilds but I'm really happy with the ship as a whole now. It's definitely a unique show piece now! Thanks again for your support!
Really looks nice so far. for the engines - don't you still got some space to gear-down the motor a bit more? Running high loads on low speed is not all that good for battery-life and the motor. (and those large ship engines were rather slow to begin with, often running lower than 1 revolution per second) "Offbrand" sounds so wrong. No, it is just one of the many competitors. Lego is not the original - that would be KiddyCraft (and yes they are selling again). And for quality you also should stay away from lego (let alone them having the absolutely worst value by far).
I had talked about and shown in previous videos on how I attempted to solve the speed issue via the gearing but I did not have enough room. The original placement of the motor I chose worked well but it ended up being in the way of some of the sub structure that I could not modify sadly. I tried many placement options but non of them would work. I couldn't mess with the gearing of the shafts either because I wanted the propellers to spin correct directions along with having the rudder prop spinning slightly faster than the two main props. So I had no wiggle room to change any of that out either. ITs not 100% how I wanted it but I'm happy with it. I'm not worried about staining the system either because it will rarely be used and when it does it will be for short durations.
