I got my Mean Machine today.

[dana]

Yeah, return it and buy a Rico mono! ...lol! J/K...

Good luck bro!

Seriously, how many tangents can someone go on about one topic. We get it, you're unhappy with the gelcoat. Either return it or move on and show something productive.

[dasboata]

Seriously, how many tangents can someone go on about one topic. We get it, you're unhappy with the gelcoat. Either return it or move on and show something productive.

I agree Aeromarine has been around longer then any other boat manufacture and they did last this long by sell c r a p it sounds like you got a axe to grind how can you bash them and not even provide some pics

[wade7575]

I have got know Axe to grind I and everything is fixable,I have contacted Kintec and still waiting to see if they had anything to with the way it look's,I know a guy in london Ontario who has been selling Boat Hull's for 20 year's and is who I would have gotten the Hull from but had just put an order in with them and said I'd be looking at another 4 month's at least before he'd be getting more in,and here is what he said,he said with an Aeromarine Hull it's going to be a bit ruff and have have a few nick's and most guy's can live with that as they are small and along the seam's most time's,but he also said there have been a few he has gotten where they where just like mine someone did a repair job on them and they looked really bad I asked him what the repair job looked and he was not sure how to explain it other then to say it was really ruff and I said to him like the way the formual for Liquid Paper used to go on back in the old day's and he said yes that would be a better a way to describe it,he also said the repair job that was done on one of his Hull's was about half the size of a dime and stood out like a sore thumb.

I can live with the nick's the way they are and would still be presentable but where the repair that was done you see can see bare FiberGlass in some spot's and it's a different colour of white,that's hardly presentable unless I want to look idiot when I take it out and show people that want to see it and say oh look here's my pride joy.

I'm not upset at all with the nick's as they are not an eye sore I was just mentioning them because they were there,it's the repair job and the fact that I did not want to paint it White after getting a Hull in White Gelcaot and I do not see how that is grinding an Axe I'm just stateing like I said before the way the Hull arrived and the fact is it need's to be repainted because you can see bare FiberGlass threw the Gelcaot and yes I know I did not mention that before and I thought I did.

[dana]

Well good luck with it. I'm bored talking about nicks and scratches. Hope you figure it all out man

[tjw4700]

Just so you guy's know I'm new here and I have just been hang out behind the seens reading posts and I just wanted to say I’m a friend of Wade’s and I sold him his first nitro tunnel hull and I have been into RC for 27 year's and I make my own Gas powered hull's that are pwered with weed wacker's that I just sell to a few hobby shops that I have dealt with for years and I make around 65 to 100 hulls a year.

I have used both kinds of gelcoat and this is not case of the gelcoat being at fault its a case it should have been sold a seconds hull,I have seen many aeromarine hulls that were never finished just left in gelcoat and the one that wade got is not very nice looking where they did the repair and it is not something I would sell unless I was selling directly to a customer and told them a few times and made sure they understand that the hull is not perfect and it will need to be painted witch is my standard practice,it's like he said it won't show up when you take a picture as I tried as well with my cell phone when I popped in for a vist the other day when I was passing threw.

I used to race rc boats and stopped then started up again and I have many many aeromarine hulls as I order from them twice a year and yes they do tend to be a bit on the ruffer side when compare to other hulls out there,just to clear I'm not the guy wade was talking about that sells rc boats and got a hull with a ruff spot the size of half a dime that another guy,I olny order from a few places a year to bring in hulls as I'm not interested in being a hobby shop.

Wade is a great guy he will do anything for you wether he has just met you or know you along time and I think wade was not so much mad about having to paint the hull hes mad because he did not want to paint the hull and I can see his point as I could never sell a hull to someone in red olny to do such a poor job that they would need to paint the hull anyway and that also defeats the reason to off gelcoat in different colours.

Madmikepags I know remy as well from dealing ith him and he is a nice guy but things at aeromarine are strange lately all the guys I know that deal with them say they never pick up the phone anymore and I can say that is true as the last time I called for 3 weeks leaving messages before I got a call back to place an order,I also know another guy who got one of there hulls off another website and came over to my place with it and it was in horrible shape and he never got a call back at all from aeromarine,he called them twice the first week and then started calling everyother day as the online store would not take it back so I called as well to let them know what was up as I have known the guy for 12 years and he has helped out more then a few times and traveled to races with them and neither of us got a call back and I was shocked as I also deal with them,I really wish I knew what was going on at areomarine,I can also say to anyone thinking twice about getting an aeromarine hull I would not worry to much if you don't min painting if you want a perfect looking hull and in all the years I have been in rc I have olny gotten one hull that a twist in it from them and olny know of two other guys who have gotten hulls where the sponsons where not even close to being straight.

[Brushless55]

I agree Aeromarine has been around longer then any other boat manufacture and they did last this long by sell c r a p it sounds like you got a axe to grind how can you bash them and not even provide some pics

AGREED!

[madmikepags]

TJW yes I know AM is going thru some stuff I'm not sure either whats goin on, I have tried contacting him too and I have his personal Cell# and he's not answering??? But I just got 8 hulls in the last month from them and all were perfect. He didn't buy it directly fro AM? correct?? The bottom line is that if the hull was that bad, Kintec should have never sold it to him without telling him it was "bruised", and it shouldda been deeply discounted, in my opinion thats Kintecs problem. I have personally bought over 300 hulls from AM over the years and I have gotten some stuff that wasn't perfect and actually bad some times but I have never seen something that had been tried to be fixed?

[bigwaveohs]

Stick with Steve/OSE for this kind of stuff...if he gets a bad hull from a vendor he will send it back. He will not pass it along to a customer...PERIOD!

[dana]

I got mine from Steve and there were nicks and blemishes everywhere. Explain that. I'm not crying about it

[bigwaveohs]

Guess we lucked-out. All the hulls we have purchased from Steve have been beautiful.

[dana]

I guess it depends on what is considered "bad". I don't think mine was bad necessarily, but it did have a few blemishes. Was not perfect gelcoat. On the other hand, I got a Df26 from him with the gelcoat perfect, but a poor fitting hatch.

[tjw4700]

Dana I don't think Wade's crying about it hes just frustrated about having to paint something that was sent to him that was not suppose to need to be painted.

As a matter of fact like I said before I stopped in for a visit and Wade did not know I was going threw where he lives and he did not seem mad at all when he showed me the hull he just said he was not happy with the spot where the repair was done and where you can see bare fiberglass and I really it's some of the other guys bashing wade and not wade bashing aeromarine,I think everyone needs to go back and read his post the olny thing he said at all negative was the poart about the village idiot doing the repair,and for you guys who don't know wade all that well I can't that not wade's way of bashing aeromarine although it may seem like it.IWade's way of expressing something like that is to sometimes exaggerate a bit to get his point across,but I can tell you right wade is a stand up guy who has help countless of people online that he has never met before,for example I know a guy on the traxxas forum posted a thank you to wade because they never met face to face and the guy had posted he burned up his piston and sleeve and the guy lost his job and was going threw a ruff time and said he did not know when he would get back to work and could afford to buy another and who do you think it was that sent the guy a brand new piston sleeve it was wade and I asked him why and he said he felt really bad for the guy and felt he was not just crying a river to see if someone would give him hand out.

I can also tell if there was a guy using a drill for saw when a saw was laying there right beside him wade would say something like whats that idiot doing and know wade does think a person like that is an idiot thats just wades way of telling you what he thinks but I can also tell you hed be the first guy to be as kind as possible to try and avoid making the guy feel like a real fool and show him the saw and ask if he thinks it may work a little better and yes to say the guys an idiot and then offer help may seem to faced but thats just wade saying whats on his mind and does not mean anything at all by it although it may seem that.

I also talked to way about getting beat on this thread the other night and he said if he knew that some of guys were going to take it as bashing and all the other stuff he never would have started the thread as he just wanted to let people know he got his hull and there were some nicks and a really bad repair done on one corner and said he did not mean the village idiot remark as a jab at anyone he was just being sarcastic.

I also think why his later posts got more personal and more sounding like he really had a problem and an ax to grind is because everyone just assumed no matter how nice it showed up it would not have suited wade and I sort of can't blame him as who is anyone to comment when they have'nt seen the hull,i know wade and he has seen enough unfinished hulls after being in rc for a longtime and hes not being cry baby,also remeber if you ever buy a brand new car and put down cash right up front and when the car comes in and if it has some runs in the paint and some nicks scratch and blemmishes and they won't do nothing for don't just paint the car as why you should it showed up in the colour you wanted and maybe its there standard practice to sell them like that and if you want a really nice paint job you need to paint it yourself get my point money is money and now a days whether its a rc boat or a real boat or car money is still hard enough to come buy.

Also if you llok at the hull on OSE for the mean machine in white that is a better looking hull then most that go out the door and if I were remy I would ask that my vendors not display the best examples of my hulls if more go out the door looking a bit ruffer then other hulls out there and make sure people understand these are not being made to look perfect and if you want it that way then paint it and tell people they are more concerned with making a fast hull not a shelf queen.

I got mine from Steve and there were nicks and blemishes everywhere. Explain that. I'm not crying about it

[dana]

I'm not even gonna read all that. It doesn't take more than a paragraph for him to say he doesn't like the gelcoat. You two are writing novels on the subject. Get over it and move on to the build already

[Serpents811]

I'm not even gonna read all that. It doesn't take more than a paragraph for him to say he doesn't like the gelcoat. You two are writing novels on the subject. Get over it and move on to the build already

I need some wine and pop corn for this one

[HOTWATER]

tjw....are you sure you're not wade's dad? J/K....