Forum

Smoke generator - question

Just to add to this discussion, I have been making my own misting smokers from room nebulizers. I find they are great in the cooler months, but less so in the warm months because the 'smoke' dissipates too quickly. Their fan is slaved to the throttle. For comparison, they have a 200ml water tank which lasts about 30 minutes. That works out at about 7ml per minute. They consume 650mA on 24 volts (16 Watts) but can be run at lower voltages via a step-up voltage converter. Shown fitted to my 1:24 scale tug Wattle.

4 hours ago by Yabbie1

Forum

Smoke generator - question

Hi maybe not boat related ( but could well apply) I wonder if anyone has any advice on make or buying one. I've seen a few of those henglong tanks versions but maybe need a little more smoke from my model (1/6th RSO Steyr) I need it to pipe into my exhaust via a tube thats 12 inches long.. Not sure if those small china ones would do it without increasing blower rate as I believe that burns the coil out quicker from what I've read up to now.

7 days ago by Northernflotsam

Forum

Smoke generator - question

Rod, et al., this is a misting unit, not vaporizing. The big difference is that there should not be any heat involved. That equals longer battery time. I don't know how the boat would take all that mist, but being that it is on the water and moving I don't think the boat would get too wet on the superstructure. Update: Title: HandFan 5200mAh Upgraded Handheld Misting Fan, Portable Mister Fan Rechargeable, Spray Water Mist Fans, Electric Hand Cooling Ice Fans for Summer Beach Travel Concerts, Gifts for Women(Royal Blue) Description: Warm Tips: Please add tap water or mineral water, DO NOT add Purified water, distilled water. A larger battery capacity inevitably add to the weight, which is also why it boasts an extended range.(Weight: 8.64oz) 🔋 Up to 24 Hours of Cooling Power: Equipped with a 5200mAh high-capacity battery, enjoy continuous airflow for up to 24 hours on a single charge—perfect for shopping, camping, or long outdoor work sessions.(Usage time: 6-24hours) 💧 2.0ml/min High Mist Output: Delivers 2.0ml/min of ultra-fine mist that cools you down rapidly, keeping you refreshed even on the hottest days.(Water tank: 34ml; Spray Hours: 25-30min.) 🔘 Independent Controls for Fan & Mist: Separate controls for fan and spray allow you to run each function alone or together—flexible operation. 📿 Foldable & Neck-Hanging Design: Easily fold and wear around your neck or hold in hand. Enjoy hands-free cooling while walking, commuting, or traveling 💨 3 Wind Speeds for Your Comfort: Choose from low, medium, or high settings to match your needs—from a gentle breeze to powerful cooling.(Max Wind Speed: 13.4ft/s) Lew Was able to download (and shorten to 30 sec.) a video.

9 hours ago by LewZ

Response

Re: Möwe - Trawler

Nice Boat! Aeronaut Seagull 2, I think. Kit 3091.00 Dave B

12 hours ago by DWBrinkman

Forum

Smoke generator - question

I'll throw my support behind the Dean's Design units. I have two of them and they work well. Best part is that when I test them in the house, I don't set off the Fire Alarm! The local gents seem to appreciate that.😊

17 hours ago by ToraDog

Response

Re: Möwe - Trawler

Very nice!! And yes, that is an Aeronaut kit, and you did a great job. Cash

17 hours ago by Cashrc

Forum

Smoke generator - question

Oh good! And if it looks promising pls post a link to the Amazon data or at least enuff info that we can go looking for it? Your link will be for the USA site but will present me with the choice of continuing with US site or switch to Canadian. Looking forward to your ongoing posts abt this.

17 hours ago by RodC

Forum

Smoke generator - question

I just ordered a handheld fan misting unit, battery operated from Amazon. Going to see if it will work out as a "smoker". The video looks like it spews out a lot of mist for several hours. Lew

17 hours ago by LewZ

Forum

AWOL, MIAor KIA!

Aye Cap👍!

17 hours ago by RossM

Forum

AWOL, MIAor KIA!

Hi to all those who had noticed I had gone missing, Many thanks for your enquiries and concern, and for even noticing that I was AWOL🤓 Everything has not been OK but now getting better. Spent most of the last two months in heart clinics and cardio specialists (with limited or no internet access) having been carted off in an emergency ambulance on 26th January. Had a thorough medical MOT (TUF in Germany)🙄 culminating in an aorta heart valve replacement. Now beginning to regain some strength and stamina, which had been deteriorating over the last year or so until I couldn't manage a flight of stairs without a pause. Now I can😉 Also, on the site I had noticed an increasing bias towards vintage boats, Aerokits & Co, which is not my main interest, à chacun à son goût. I did my bit for that topic some 8 years ago with the restoration and upgrade of my Sea Scout 'Jessica'. Which I recorded here in a detailed Build Blog. Repeating that process again and again is not my thing. Naval ships, Dreadnought to present day and Plastic Magic RC conversions ARE. Cheers, Doug😎

3 days ago by RNinMunich

Forum

AWOL, MIAor KIA!

Ross! Watch out for the "chain-shot"!!!!!! 😉😂😂😂

19 hours ago by jumpugly

Forum

AWOL, MIAor KIA!

Actually, Jumpugly, we have TWO aims, we either aim to please, or aim for the rigging. (I'll go back to my gun crew now)😉

19 hours ago by RossM

Forum

AWOL, MIAor KIA!

Howdy from Texas Ian!! You’ve come to the right place. Everybody here is friendly and there’s a TON of knowledge here, and people here readily help if asked. Welcome aboard!! Cash

21 hours ago by Cashrc

Forum

AWOL, MIAor KIA!

Welcome aboard Ian! You’ve come to the right place! Good souls one and all and we aim to please! 👍😊

24 hours ago by jumpugly

Forum

AWOL, MIAor KIA!

Ian, I hope that by characterizing this site as "Social Medium", you don't leave "as a matter of principle". This is a great group, very unlike most other social media sites .... Dave B

1 day ago by DWBrinkman

Response

Re: Model Slipway Vosper RTTL

Cash: Great project—you’re already halfway there. Meanwhile, this is what my wife does with the model list I give her… more like SpongeBob SquarePants handling the situation 😂🔥 She calls them “The Other Wife”! 😎

1 day ago by chugalone100

Response

Re: Model Slipway Vosper RTTL

Ron, This one is less than 50 miles away from you! (It looks like you could even get there by boat!!) Our club went with the vac-u-tugs because they do not have davits, towers, antennas, etc. All the fragile pieces that will get broken, if used by public first-time users.... But it would look sweet in YOUR Harbor. 😁 Dave B https://www.facebook.com/groups/853855980079659/posts/1551292613669322/

1 day ago by DWBrinkman

Response

Re: Watercat M12 (Jurmo Class) landing craft

😍

1 day ago by Natroz

Forum

Robbe Atlantis Fttings

Hi, thank you for looking. This is the "Wood Kit" #1133. It is miss-titled as the "Fittings Kit". I have the "Wood Kit". I too saw it on the USA eBay.

1 day ago by Hsailer

Forum

Robbe Atlantis Fttings

Still looking to purchase the Fittings Kit #1134 for the Atlantis. Appreciate any leads given to me.

15 days ago by Hsailer

Forum

Steam Glorious Steam.

Good Morning All, Someone please correct me if I am wrong, but most marine power systems, be they steam from coal or oil, if burning correctly, would emit a grey smoke, and not too much of it, except under severe load conditions. The real except is wood fired boilers which smoke like a banshee. All that said, the smoke machines currently available commercially as well as those homemade unit do a pretty good job of simulating the real thing. I would also point out that any unit that smoked "black" would, as Lew has pointed out, make a mess. If you think that dust is hard to removeform your model, you ain't seen nothin' yet.😆

1 day ago by ToraDog

Forum

Steam Glorious Steam.

This is my first post this year as I was waiting for somebody to post something, in fact actually anything to do with steam. As that is not going to happen any time soon. I have decided to post a few photos of a rather nice steam launch called Topaz, an Edwardian launch a kit from Martin Baylis, Howe, and I can't remember the other guys name, although it wasn't Dardanian, the fourth Musketeer. Cheddar made a special boiler for this model which was three inch diameter, with the gas burner and the flue at the same end. Martin Baylis is still very much in business, although very expensive and he tends not to publish prices on his website, this wise move prevents suffering a heart attack. Enjoy the photos. regards, Gary.

2 days ago by GaryLC

Response

Re: Model Slipway Vosper RTTL

Good Morning Ronald. Model Slipway, the manufacturers of this kit, closed down in 2020. I was fortunate to find it on the Ages of Sail website. It no longer shows up in their catalog. Mount Fleet has taken over the range, but the Vosper isn't being produced yet. Cash

1 day ago by Cashrc

Forum

Steam Glorious Steam.

Many thanks one and all for your kind and very much appreciated comments. This is the boat that started it all, with a Maxwell Hemmings 4" x 4" boiler and Caton engine in the 1970s. (I think the boat is in much better condition than I am.) Regards, Gary.

1 day ago by GaryLC

Forum

Smoke generator - question

Hello everyone, I don't want to prolong this topic but I have some information which might be of help. As Lew states the only way at the moment to get black smoke is to burn something. I had a lot of success generating white smoke/vapour using parts from a vape device. I bought spare parts like coils etc and a computer fan plus batteries. My only problem was that I never pursued it further and make the whole thing into a compact unit. You can buy coils or wire of varying resistance which give give different volumes of smoke. Someone on the internet was doing just this to make factory smoke on a model railway. My stumbling block was insulating the hot wires from plastic funnels etc. This was similar to the Robbe unit. Best wishes Tim

1 day ago by tim morland

Forum

Steam Glorious Steam.

Fabulous model. I'm very envious 🤣

1 day ago by DuncanP

Forum

Question of the Day?

I agree with Simple Sailor, B and D are both correct

1 day ago by EdW

Forum

Question of the Day?

Hi All, Given that it's always popular in December (and I've now figured out a way to get multiple-choice quiz questions very easily), how many of you would enjoy a non-competition based fun question of the day, each day? In a similar way to December's one, it'll be on the home screen each day, with four possible answers to choose from. Maybe a rolling leader board and linked forum thread to discuss questions (but not reveal answers until the following day). I know we're talking about at least 365 nautical/shipping/maritime/sailing/boating quiz questions here! But I now believe its possible to put together with little effort 😉 perhaps useful to onboard a volunteer researcher mind, to double check questions and answers before they're made live. So if anyone would like to do that, let me know too. Thoughts on having a Question of the Day? Stephen

3 years ago by fireboat

Forum

Question of the Day?

Not happy with that answer at all. It looks like I am not alone either! Most harbour tugs I have seen are the Voith Schneider propulsion types. Did not even know azimuth systems were used on harbour tugs. Roy

1 day ago by roycv

Forum

Question of the Day?

well that is an interesting question. I think the answer conflicts with the question. It asks about 360-degree of thrust which both ASD and VSP can give. However the Ai's chosen answer then seeks to qualify it's answer by saying that VSP propelled tugs are not classified as an ASD tugs. As far as the question is concerned both types of propulsion are correct. Plus. Not one of them can give 360-degrees of thrust, they can only direct their thrust through 360-degrees. Anyway enough of my ranting. 😀 Have a nice day..

1 day ago by SimpleSailor

Forum

AWOL, MIAor KIA!

As a newcomer to this community, I am deeply impressed by how close many members are to one another, even though I assume most have never met in person (and possibly don’t even know each other’s real names). As a matter of principle, and also due to lack of interest, I am not active on any so-called social media; now I realise that the Model Boats website is exactly that – a social medium. No reason, however, to lump it together with TikTok and the like; on the contrary. I join in the good wishes – at 80 years of age, one is at least a candidate for similar "developments". Ian

1 day ago by IGinBasel

Forum

Steam Glorious Steam.

Well Gary, that's a stunning model. Some time and love given on that task - outstanding....

1 day ago by Northernflotsam

Response

Re: Why I have paused, building my Drifter.

Thanks Rick, Things are improving steadly.

1 day ago by stevedownunder

Forum

Steam Glorious Steam.

Hi Gary, Beautiful model. Cheers, Stephen.

1 day ago by stevedownunder

Response

Re: Why I have paused, building my Drifter.

Sorry to hear of your loss Stephen and glad to see you posting to let us know. Loss of any kind is difficult to deal with but I do know talking about it does help. I hope you are doing better. Rick

1 day ago by Newby7

Blog

Why I have paused, building my Drifter.

Hello from Australia, I can’t believe that it has been a little over 3 years since I posted anything on this build log. A lot has happened in my life in those 3 years, as I am sure it has for everyone, my wife became very ill again with Hepatitis B, and what the doctors were calling severe Cirrhosis of the Liver, after treatment she improved to the point of being stable. She then decided to return to China to be with her friends and family back there, with my daughter and I visiting when we could. Unfortunately she was slowly going down hill again, my wife was a very stoic person and didn’t let on how she really was doing until things got too much for her, at this point I went back to China to help her come home in early January 2025, once she returned to Australia she was quickly diagnosed with stage 4 liver cancer that had spread to he lungs and other organs. She gave everything she had to overcome this however she lost the fight on the 8th of April 2025. They say time heals and I would agree, although in some ways time helps you to adjust, something I am still doing. After 32 years of marriage you lose more than just your wife when she passes, you loose part of yourself, for me it has and still is taking time to find myself again. I will return to building the Drifter at some point. I have built a small trawler and I have bought 2 semi kits from APS models, an Australian manufacture, at some point I will post build logs for these 3 models, however I tend to run out of time and energy for writing logs. Look after yourself and your loved ones.

1 day ago by stevedownunder

Blog

Scratch built, Working Steam powered Drifter trawler LT100, to 1:24th scale.

LT100 My Way. With this build log there is a lot of ground to catch up on I have been building this model for more than 20 years. I do not profess to be an expert builder, nor that this is an exceptional model, especially considering that this is only my second scratch built model. However my intention is to build the best model I can (this is true most of the time). My first reasonable scratch build being a simple hard chine cabin cruiser. Most of the models I have built have been plastic kits. My intention with this project was to build a working model without many compromises, that is to say when out of the water you would not be able to tell it is a working model. I welcome constructive comment. I hope people enjoy the journey with me. Looking around for a scratch build project, something that wouldn’t take too long (ha-ha) or be too complex or too large, I found that I really liked the look of steam drifter trawlers. A wooden prototype being preferred as I could build a model hull out of wood then build a steam plant to power it; therefore the model would have some similarity to the original even if internally it wasn’t a replica. So the decision was made to build myself one, I started searching for suitable plans, this was in a time before the internet when things weren’t just a click away, therefore I relied on the couple of plans catalogues that I had in my possession. Plans were found in the MAP Plans catalogue, then this project got off to something of a false start in 1990 with the purchase of a set of plans drawn by R. A. Neville to a scale of 1/24, from the Plan Shop in New South Wales Australia these are for a typical Wooden Steam Drifter. I am not sure when these plans were first printed, however I have inherited a copy of Model Engineer published in September 1959 which is the first of 4 articles titled, How to build a Wooden Steam Drifter, written by R. A. Neville (I didn’t find this article until many years after starting work on this project!) I wasn’t quite happy with these plans, being more interested in building something that represented an actual vessel. So I sat on them for quite a while umming and arr-ing, thinking they are not quite what I wanted. Then to my amazement and elation, on the cover of Model Boats in April 1993 was a beautifully made model, that had been entered into Class C9 kit class at the 1993 Model Engineer Exhibition, of LT100 built by Robin Butler, winning a Silver medal, and guess what next month there were to be plans for this trawler, wow just what I wanted! Life got in the way of hobby as it usually does and it wasn’t until a few years later in 1996 that I purchased the plans drawn of Formidable LT 100 by James Pottinger to a scale of 1/33, along with the book From Tree to Sea by Ted Frost, this is a wonderful book about the construction of LT 100 drawing from Ted Frosts memories as an apprentice ship wright. The plans arrived, then I had them enlarged to what I thought was 1:24 scale, as mentioned earlier I intended to power the model by steam, I went off and measured the opening for the wheel house and I found I could comfortably fit the 3 ½in diameter boiler I was thinking of building through the opening. Having no experience with steam at all, I imagined that steam plants would require quite a bit of servicing, with this in mind I thought it was important to be able to remove the entire steam plant easily for routine maintenance. Next step was to get some plans for an engine. Probably in 1996, my dad and I went to Kilsyth (an outer suburb of Melbourne, Australia), where Live Steam Supplies of Victoria were, they specialised in miniature steam in all its aspects. Whilst there I purchased plans for a ½ in bore ½ in stroke, twin cylinder double acting oscillating steam engine designed by Basil Harley, published by Model Maker plans service. Probably first printed in July 1983, I have the August 1983 Model Boats with part two in a series of articles to build the engine and boiler along with a 42in long steam launch, once again I didn’t find this article until much later after purchasing the plans even though this was a magazine I had bought! I had already decided to make the centre flue boiler designed by Peter Arnot. Peter ran an excellent series of articles in Model Boats for a Vee 4 steam engine, boiler and associated equipment throughout the year of 1993, I intended to purchase some 3 ½in copper pipe as illustrated in the plan. Unfortunately Live Steam Supplies of Victoria didn’t have any 3 ½in copper pipe, turns out this isn’t a size commonly used in Australia, what to do, luckily I had bought along the trawler plans and after a few quick measurements were taken, a rash on the spot decision was made, (this would latter cause problems). I purchased two pieces of 4in diameter copper pipe that were cut to length, along with flat sheet copper for the end plates, smaller diameter tubing, a few packs of solder on nuts and tails along with other various items including a Cheddar ceramic gas burner. The steam engine and boiler were started along with the work boat, work proceeding roughly in parallel. Most people start with the hull, however I decided to start making the work boat first, my thinking being if I can make a small clinker built boat to the standard I wanted then the rest should be achievable, also I wouldn’t be in such a rush to finish what is really “just a fitting” for the project, therefore possibly doing a better job. After reading the clinker-built boat section of “PLANK-ON-FRAME MODELS and SCALE MASTING & RIGGING Volume 2” by Harold A Underhill a start could be made. I wanted to use Huon pine, for most of this little boat, this is a very slow growing timber unique to Tasmania in Australia, which was used to build real ships and boats from, due to its ability to not rot even when submerged, it also has a straight, fine grain and generally pale in colour. I made a start by spending a day at dad’s using his table saw to cut up some blocks of Huon pine into strips to make up a “kit” of material. This material I had bought back from Tasmania on my honeymoon, packed into our suitcases to my wife’s bewilderment. Then making a building board and formers from MDF (not the best material to use as the dust is very bad for you, I was unaware of this at the time). The keel was fabricated from several pieces of an unknown hard wood all pinned together with homemade bamboo pins, a Huon pine transom being pinned to the stern post also keel doublers attached for planks to rest on. I would like to say that I could not have made the work boat without Harold Underhill’s book, there was a lot of reading then rereading combined with head scratching going on during the build. The main difficulty was to generate the shape of planks. At one point I nearly scrapped the whole thing as I couldn’t seem to get the planking just right, however after some consideration I pressed on with the attitude it doesn’t really matter if this one is not perfect I will learn lesions in building it and I can always build another if it isn’t up to scratch. Once templates were made the plank would be cut and steamed then clamped into position, left there for a few days then glued on with Cyanoacrylate and pinned to the previous plank, making sure not to pin it to the building frame. After planking the hull was removed from its jig then ribs, benches, floor boards, rubbing strake and knees were added, some artistic licence was taken, I didn’t follow the plans completely choosing to not add grab lines like you would see on a life boat and a device that I was unable to determine its purpose mounted on the transom. Next oars were made, these are not shown on the plans, I didn’t want to make paddle’s, so I looked through books that I have trying to determine proportions and came up with something that looks like an oar to me, I made these from Huon pine in two parts. Next came the crutches and sockets, Brass tube was used for the sockets being fitted into holes drilled. Next the crutches, these were fabricated from brass wire and fine chain silver soldered together, when I am silver soldering small parts I use a technique my dad taught me. That is to cut off the required amount of solder and once you have heated the flux a little to boil most of the moisture away, then place the solder using tweezers where it is required, the solder will stay in place because most of the moisture has gone from the flux, gently apply heat and you should have a very neat job. While on the subject of soldering a low-cost alternative to fire bricks is to use what is called Hebel in Australia this is a lightweight product used in buildings and landscaping it is an aerated concrete sold in blocks. Once the flux was cleaned up, they were painted black using Humbrol enamel. Using a Teak coloured wood stain, I masked then stained the top strake down to the rubbing strake. The inside and top strake now received a couple of coats of satin varnish. The rest of it received a few coats of Humbrol satin white airbrushed on. In the end after it was finished, I hadn’t quite achieved what I set out to do however, I was quite happy with my little work boat even with its short comings. Cheers, Stephen.

6 years ago by stevedownunder

Forum

Steam Glorious Steam.

Wonderful work GLC Rick

1 day ago by Newby7

Response

Re: Model Slipway Vosper RTTL

How much is this kit? Would it in its kit form be a good “public” boat for first time users?

1 day ago by Ronald

Forum

Steam Glorious Steam.

Beautiful!

1 day ago by Ronald

Forum

Smoke generator - question

---- BEWARE of this smoke generator (Coalcaine) ---- From a video: "You don't want to run this in your house." "Non toxic." (what?) "Made from a fine coal powder." Coal dust for $155.00 US - not for my lungs! Black non toxic smoke for rc vehicles. The holy grail still remains unreachable. Lew

1 day ago by LewZ

Blog

Model Slipway Vosper RTTL

Hi y’all. The Tug formerly known as Harbor is now in her berth, flagged, and is now known as the O Wulf 8. She’s done!! Well..mostly. Got a couple more things to do to her, but she’s out of the shipyard, which means another project must commence. Union rules Y’know…I’m not union, but the gremlins in my garage are… Anyway, I WAS going to start one of the kits that’s been in my hoard for a while, but I decided to build a birthday kit. She’s the Model Slipway Vosper RTTL. It was in my wishlist on Ages of Sail, my wife picked it out of a list I gave her. Woman knows my heart. Anyway, I wanted something relatively simple, although the kit does have some head scratching moments. To start off, it’s a nice kit. Molded hull, deck and superstructure, good brass and plastic, printed plastic parts and white metal fittings. The downside is the 2mm shaft and tube, press on propeller and a rubber tube coupling. First thing I did was find a suitable tube and shaft in my stash, I like 4mm and 1/8th inch. Found an unused Dumas 1/8 tube and shaft that was just a wee bit longer, so I chose that and a 3 blades prop with a 3mm hole that I gently cleaned out to 1/8. The kit is designed to be powered by a 6 volt Speed 400, and one was included, but I’m going brushless with this build. First thing after cutting out the hull, deck and interior liner is to clean up and trim, then you’re supposed to build up the rudder from 2 abs halves and a metal shaft. I had a commercially made rudder that was the right shape and size, so I chose that and a 3mm ID tube. Now, the builder is supposed to make sure the liner fits, then tape it in place so one can drill the rudder tube hole thru the hull and up into the aft part of the liner. I thought I’d be able to just hold it in place. And, of course, it slipped leaving me with an elongated hole too far forward. Looking at the plans, the tube comes thru the bottom of the hull and is glued ther and at the liner. No reinforcements on the hull bottom. So, me being me, I found a nice piece of hard balsa, drilled to fit, and then slid that over the tube, and used black ca on the bottom of the hull and used epoxy to glue the tube and block inside. I made the offending hole in the liner a little bigger, and once it was glued in i made up a plate to go over the tube, the glue the plate to the tube and topside of the liner. Before I could accomplish that, I had to mod the liner to accept my choice of brushless outrunner. Plus I had to cut the slot for the stuffing box. Once I had all that done, I tacked the tube in place with ca, made sure it was lined up, the used tape on the bottoms of the hull to keep excess epoxy from running out and then glued it home.skeg was installed at this time. Then I installed the modified liner. I made up my motor mount and installed it and the motor. I tacked the mount in place with the motor installed to make darn sure the motor, shaft and coupler were a slip fit with no binding, then I bonded the mount to the hull and liner. After that I installed the deck, and the spray rails. You’re supposed to cut the strip from tha plastic sheet, but I cheated and used some strip styrene I already had. The superstructure has been started. I’ve got the aft bulkhead, aft bulkhead outside fairing doublers, cockpit and windbreak installed. At this point I have to measure the drawing on the plans to mark the windows, then tape 2mm strips in position, glue the strips and uprights at the window locations, cut away the unglued excess strip, then cut the windows out. I’ll probably get the locations marked this week, and get the horizontal strips taped down, then wait till this weekend to finish that job. Cash

2 days ago by Cashrc

Forum

Steam Glorious Steam.

Those are some stunning boats! Dave B

2 days ago by DWBrinkman

Forum

Steam Glorious Steam.

Gary: Those are gorgeous models—excellent work indeed! 😎

2 days ago by chugalone100

Forum

AWOL, MIAor KIA!

Thanks for sharing the story. Happy to hear you are recovering. I think it is important that we share updates on fellow modellers when it comes to health issues.

2 days ago by BobbyN

Forum

AWOL, MIAor KIA!

Doug, good to hear you are making tangible progress. Of course rehab never happens as quickly as any of us would like, but keep at lt

2 days ago by Chum444

Forum

Robbe Atlantis Fttings

Not sure if this is the same guy but have a look at https://www.ebay.ch/itm/117106299147?_skw=robbe+atlantis&itmmeta=01KNJ1BN57R04W3KR32NH81QVS&hash=item1b4414510b:g:C4sAAeSw0GlpwtHq&itmprp=enc%3AAQALAAAA8GfYFPkwiKCW4ZNSs2u11xB5jtNSi1JmtUAnHeUuzQEbRHzcjdlEZKhj4YHTlM1a36iWToQUxCvKC3YtOlkXLXXUiIBtfavRL1IpEZMpxviJxqLBtHeVbuxOreEguP%2FhHcDdM4mD8MkB2OCPs0FvRITaDB3K3%2BN%2Bm%2FMyTo%2FQaRgZewF1WASv6wxMDgrA2xPGjtqPmRKL1%2FQ8m4M2xACy960gm8aZTQuGvBy5jLe3ZbyfvygKEdRyITV2trVq55pNhooblLjMzALKIpVNom3IiXbBXErZ5JRhbIOa1XRoFuKHqqeihAfg1%2FsUBelOj6aJLg%3D%3D%7Ctkp%3ABk9SR-zSrsGsZw

2 days ago by PeterN

Forum

AWOL, MIAor KIA!

Hello Doug.. Very psed to see you back and watch the comments and builds going on within this great site. Welcome to the club although i had a Zip job done in 1997 ( triple bypass )..it took some time for me personally to mend, but i,m sure having this hobby as an interest will help.. This unfortunately made my builds very long and with a harbormaster like mine that constantly tidys up, i had trouble location the parts sometimes. To refer to that old saying.. Gently Gently catche' Monkey and i,m sure will be a good road to take.. Keep smiling.. ATB Muddy . ( Brian ) ps.. Sorry to say I am old school and love building from plans mostly, useing Balsa Wood and i aint had one breat yet.. ( All fingers and things crossed.. ) 73

2 days ago by muddy

Forum

Robbe Atlantis Fttings

Hi All, I was unable to obtain the Fittings Kit #1134 from the seller in Switzerland. Therefore, I am still on the hunt with your help.

2 days ago by Hsailer

Forum

AWOL, MIAor KIA!

Best wishes Doug, may you continue to feel better. Enjoy life Colin J

2 days ago by ColinJ2