You can go overboard on a scale project with redundancy, but a scale ship is no more difficult to wire up than anything else. I take advantage of the fact that most (if not all) scale ships are heavy to begin with, and require significant amounts of nose weight to balance. The answer, big batteries. I use 2400 mah C cells, which makes for a nice heavy pack. In my 1/4 scale K-8, balance this kind of battery plus another pound or so. In my SBXC (another big ship), I use the 2400 mah plus about 10 oz. Hope this helps.
Jim Thomas
