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Country	🇬🇧	United Kingdom
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(Other) The African Queen

AQ has taken 2 years to build, she is built on a grp hull from Kingston mouldings. Materials used were Beech, Oak, Mahogany and Brass, no ply or plastic used at all. Steam generation is by a Maccsteam 3.5 inch vertical boiler, there is a feed pump fitted so she can steam about as long as the gas tank lasts.. Radio is Futaba 6EX 2.4 gig, 3 channels used, steering, regulator and reverser. She also has a removable sound system which plays sound clips from the film. (Motor: TVR 1A BB twin cylinder, double acting slide valve with Hackworth reversing gear.) (ESC: N/A) (10/10)

Nickthesteam

10 years ago

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(Submarine) HMS Trafalgar

Trafalgar is a Second hand Sheerline example that I am getting back into the water, I am in the process of replacing the seals, so it is in bits at the moment..... Now sold to a foreign power in Manchester....... (Motor: MFA365 geared 6 to 1) (ESC: Mtronics 40 amp) (8/10)

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10 years ago

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(Other) Victoria

Victoria is built from a Krick kit, and has a Maccsteam 3.5 inch horizontal boiler fired by Propane/butane mix. The engine is a 10mm bore x 12 mm stroke SVS oscillator. Radio is Futaba 6EX 2.4 ghz. (Motor: SVS 10mm x 12mm) (ESC: Maccsteam Boiler) (8/10)

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105ft Motor Minesweeper

I am currently fiddling about with 3D printers and as it is high time I built another boat I am going to combine the two hobbies and make the decks superstructure and some fittings on my 3D printers, a Prusa i3 Mk2S and a Tronxy X5S. So far the results are encouraging. The model is based on a 105ft Motor Minesweeper, a wooden harbour/coastal sweeper. About 300 were built and saw service throughout WW2. My example carries the LL magnetic influence sweep but proved under powered for the task and many were converted to carry an acoustic 'kango' hammer for dealing with acoustic mines.

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9 months ago

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125ft 1st Class Torpedo Boat, 1885

I have decided to take a little break from engine building and carry on with the torpedo boat. I have connected the motor to the shaft with a rigid coupling, glued In place with loctite bearing fit, the A frame Is now fettled up and In place, the shaft and prop Installed and the speed controller made from a servo circuit board. Tomorrow I will slosh a load of epoxy around the shaft tube to permanently fix It In place.

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10 years ago

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Winch for African Queen

Finally, painted and Installed..

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📝 LCM3 landing a Sherman M4A3(105) howitzer

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Nice job! It sits nicely in the water and looks the part. Is it the Deans 1/24 scale LCM? I have one waiting to be built, it's about two projects away so a build for next winter...

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Ah the Short Nightie, lovely ship, I went on around 1972.

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There was also Jacques's tv predecessors, Hans and Lotte Haas..

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We've had this one recently..

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He was a very principled man was Archimedes. He also invented the first solar powered death ray...

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Self bailers are great! The faster you go the quicker the water flowa out. Sailing dingys have them ,ribs have them and most speedboats have them...

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I must say, the post mortem is more fun than the questions sometimes....

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All of the above depending on circumstances...

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📝 Full Steam Ahead

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Nice, my new plant arrived a couple of days ago from Clevedon Steam. I did post a video on this forum somewhere...

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Sailing ships carried cargo.

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Evenin all, I have just bought a Clevedon Steam Virgo plant, which, in the fullness of time will be fitted in to a Mobile Marine Models Tollman tug. This is my first attempt at an unboxing video so please be kind and feel free to offer any hints and tips.

https://youtu.be/DGGMUl5sUUQ?si=QUx2rWd8NNhJRu3d

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There is only one 'supreme authority' that I know of, and I'm married to it!

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Superglue all the way! I prefer medium vviscosity....

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I believe it is due to file size and limited server capacity, I may be wrong but I had a similar issue a while back. I just post a link to a You Tube video, much easier. .

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My list of current, started and unstarted projects/kits will probably out live me I have that many, although I am a mere boy at 68. Onwards and upwards as they say, my philosophy is that as long as there is something to do and a goal to achieve, then life will prolong it's self. If that makes any sense. Anyhoo, I must now return to the immediate task at hand, find me b****y tv remote. I had it before I fell asleep. Re propellors, Prop Shop here in the UK make practically every prop in the known universe....

https://www.prop-shop.co.uk/

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Ross, as well as re phrasing current questions, surely, with the combined knowlege of the membership we can come up with questions on nautical matters, our hobby and perhaps even relevant historic subjects. We can all learn fron one another and expand our own knowlege...

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Roy, "thrust upwards" you say? Ooer Missus...

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Instead of scrapping QotD, could we not each do say 4 week stints at being Quizmaster and set 4 questions with proper answers. Obviously quizmaster of the month would be precluded from answering the question. Such a path may prove too complicated to administer but I thought I would toss the idea into the hat so to speak. It would be interesting to get questions from different parts of the world....

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💬 Re: Aucklands' classic wooden boat festival ,1,2,3 March

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My daughter is in NZ she is getting married there tomorrow. She is about an hour outside Aukland, at her fiancee's sisters place in Whangaparāoa, bit of a moulthful is that!

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📝 How do I get to all the back issues?

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There is a link to the digital archive here....

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📝 Tinkering

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Have you ever thought of building a Sandbeest?

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Eeee there's nowt like a shopping trolley or a pushbike to present a hazard to navigation for model boats or snag up your fishing gear. UK canals and lakes are full of 'em. Even the odd corpse turns up now and again....

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I thought USS Arizona was a restricred dive site and you need a letter from The Allmighty to get anywhere near. This discussion seems to ring a bell....

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I'm just going to bed!

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Just had a look on Wikipedia, a "Mull" is a rounded hill, an extremity, headland or promontory, so not actually a stretch of water. You could say it's a stretch of land I suppose...

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I thought Mull of Kintyre was a song by Pauĺ McCartney...

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I do posess a razor saw, but I also have a Proxxon table saw very accurate, a laser cutter, even more accurate, and a mini jigsaw. I rarely use the razor saw these days...

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📝 Items stolen from National Waterways Museum

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I have shared with a few model engineering chums locally. I will also alert my local model shop... With luck they won't get too far...

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What country is the Queen of England Queen of...?

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