Manufacturer: Dumas Boats

Specification:
Length approx. 711 mm
Beam approx. 226 mm
Max. displacement: not indicated
Scale about 1:8

Manufacturers comments:
We think the 1949 Chris-Craft 19 ft. Racing Runabout is our sleekest looking Chris-Craft to date.
Our 1/8th scale version of this popular racer is 28 inches long with a 9 inch beam.
The wood framed hull is covered with expanded pvc and then planked with mahogany veneer. Like our other Chris-Crafts this kit features the finest materials including chrome plated dack fittings complete drive line hardware flag and burgee. Each kit contains everything needed to build a beautiful static display model for the office or den.
Or make her RC with a two channel radio Dumas #2025 motor NiCad batteryand speed control.
You will want to make the powerful Racing Runabout the next addition to you fleet.

My comments:
I placed the order for this boat and also for the Dumas Chris-Craft Runabout Kit 36" and some other building materials like fiberglass cloth etc. from Tower Hobbies at the same time this boat arrived after only 6 days but the other one did not (more here).
After careful inspection and cross referencing the content of the box with the materials list in the manual I discovered that a couple of items where missing so I contacted Dumas Products and they have promissed to send the missing items.

The brief list of the box content is a follows:
A1 full size drawing.
A3, 5 sheet double sided illustration manual.
A4, 34 page instruction manual (very good and clear instructions best I have ever seen to date)
7 sheets of die cut mahogany ply wood .
7 sheets of die cut Expanded PVC (to be used of skinning the hull before veneering with mahogany)
assortment of mahogany veneer, poplar wooden strips, 1 pieces of lasercut balsa,1 piece of laser cut mahogany of .
Prop shaft, brass tubing and brass rod, wooden dowleing
packet of chromed accessories, running gear, include fittings and a 2 bladed Plastic prop, and other

Progress Picture Gallery:
To see how far the model has progressed take a look at the 1949 Chris-Craft 19' Racing Runabout building gallery, (Updated: 14.08.05)

Recomended Building tools and materials (so far):
Building Board (at least 80cm x 30cm)
Assortment of modelers knives, files, scissors.
Ruler, Sandpaper, wax paper.
Electric modeling Drill (Dremel).
Universal Epoxy, 5 minute Epoxy, quick dry wood glue.
Flash medium CA glue and accelerator
Fiberglas cloth 57g (2 oz) plain weave, West Systems epoxy resin, denatured alcohol.
clamps, modeling pins.

Running Equipment to be used:
Motor: Graupner Speed 500 E
Radio: Graupner MC 14, FM/FMsss PPM
Receiver: JetiModel REX 7 mini
Rudder Servo:HiTEC HS-81 Standard Micro Servo
Speed Controller: To be decided
Battery: sanyo 6x3000 (6 Cell, 7.2v, 3.0 Ah)

Performance:
We shall see...... .


If you are looking for some other sites with information on building this model or similar models be sure to visit the links below:
Dumas 19' Racing Runabout
Fiberglass For Mahogany Hulls -- How To