More toy help

[beanzontoast]

Well kind of...

When our kids were little, we had assorted bath boats which occasionally also did service in naval battles when I was having a long soak. Not talking about Early Learning Centre type boats - more like WW2 warships. Anyone know if you can still get them? The closest I've seen on the interweb is a battleship radio which I quite like the sound of (pun intended), but only seems to have a scanning functions rather than a rotary tuner.

 

[rich p]

Does your little boat become a big tug boat after a while, BoT?

 

[beanzontoast]

Does your little boat become a big tug boat after a while, BoT?

 

[abchandler]

Only until the torpedo gets it

 

[beanzontoast]

'Course there's always Lego boats, but not quite the desired realism factor.

I wonder if Airfix models would float? Never seemed to work when I tried it as a kid. Either they weren't watertight or the weight was wrong and they had a pronounced list.

 

[Spinney]

'Course there's always Lego boats, but not quite the desired realism factor.

I wonder if Airfix models would float? Never seemed to work when I tried it as a kid. Either they weren't watertight or the weight was wrong and they had a pronounced list.

If you knew you were going to use them as bath toys, you could put some plasticene in the bottom before you glued the hull together (making sure you didn't put in so much that the thing sinks!)

 

[beanzontoast]

If you knew you were going to use them as bath toys, you could put some plasticene in the bottom before you glued the hull together (making sure you didn't put in so much that the thing sinks!)

This might be the way to go. It would offer a wide choice of models.

Can't help thinking that models already made-to-float must be available somewhere out there in the big wide world though...

 

[lazyfatgit]

You can get submarines still, my nephew has one.

There's also a swimming barbie mermaid, but the hair takes a bit of maintenance.

 

[ChrisKH]

My 8 year old nephew is going through an obsessive stage and his (current) obsession is The Titanic. He has a scale model which can be used on lakes, but I suspect it will be a bit big for the bath.

My kids keep saying to him that it will sink eventually and not to float it on the lake at the moment as there's too much ice.