Complete steamboat "African Queen" with wooden hull and fully operational steam engine.
Do you dream of a journey on a romantic steam ship? The Wilesco "African Queen" is then exactly the right boat for you. The engine is steaming smoothly and the chimney smokes. This model is assembled completely and ready to use. If you want to steer the boat by a RC system everything is prepared for mounting it afterwards.
Do not wait to long to be a captain because the "African Queen" is a limited edition in the Wilesco range.
The original steamboat „African Queen“ was built 1910. It was worldwide famous as the main role in the film of the same name beside the actors Katharine Hepburn and Humphrey Bogart. In this film the steam working boat torpedoes on the Lake Victoria the German warship "Königin Luise" in the course of World War I. Like the original boat, this finished model has a wooden hull and runs with a steam engine.
Technical specifications:
- Length: 70 cm
- Width: 20 cm
- Total height: 40 cm
- Scale: 1:12
- Weight: 2 kg
- Boiler capacity: 120 cm³
Running time with a fuel filling: approx. 15 minutes. A RC-system can be mounted afterwards.
The pictured figurine is not included in the packing.
Achtung: Aus Gründen der Sicherheit sollten Kinder Dampfmaschinen und das Zubehör nur unter Aufsicht von Erwachsenen in Betrieb nehmen (empfohlenes Alter ab 8 Jahren).
