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Change 2 mk1
… d a point. Y’all need to know that I’ve never set foot on a tug in my life, so under decks I’m a little lost. I got rid of the companionway and added a reinforced ladder and offset hatch. I think it looks better too. Now.. more hatches and …
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Quick update.
… it of a cheat but it “works”. Also, she’s gonna be a diesel tug. So, in my stash of parts I found the upper exhaust portion for my Graupner Taucher Wulf. I thought it was missing from the kit, so I built up the Tauchers exhaust from scrap t …
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Barge / Lighter
This build almost complete to compliment the Bangkok tug. Measuring 750mm L x 200mm beam x 100mm depth with laden draft Approx 65 mm. Mixed ballasting- roof flashing lead, water tank, and two shallow trays of aquarium gravel glued with PVA. …
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Perforated Exhaust Pipe Shields
(This is an update for my fourth Springer tug. It is 1/17 scale based on the real USACOE tug located at the Little Goose Dam in Washington State and used as a stop log mover.) The exhaust shields problem looked simple to solve but took a li …
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Al Kubar 2
… next project kit, the Mountfleet (Slipway) Al Kubar harbour tug. I get a lot of advice from my club but am just fishing around for any comments before I start. Mainly propulsion, motors, ESC’s and batteries. Any comments from you guys would …
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The rest of the story
… have multiple boats to rescue it. So my wife said, "use the tug boat" to push it to shore. I said, let me use the large shrimp fishing boat and drag a long rope behind it and then snag the old torpedo boat to bring it in. so.... After a cou …
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Good and bad
… I did not notice any fire damage? I then rescued it with my tug boat. I am done with this radio. I will post on my other blog regarding this Torpedo boat Isaac
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Teign C
… ter channel. This is Teign C, a Damen 14 metre STAN utility,tug/ dredger. Last summer,I acquired an old Graupner 14 inch Pollox tug hull fitted with new motor and hardware which with a little mod. to the bow ,formed an ideal basis for a 1:3 …
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The frame is almost finished
The picture of the stern of this as yet skeletal tug is not that exciting. However it represents an afternoon of hard labour. I had to take a razor saw to these two rear frames and carefully remove them from the keel as I discovered they we …
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She has a crew!!
Hi y’all. So, I’ve been adding a few details to the tug. I built up a manual winch from a small spool and scrap pieces, added a door for the cabin, a ships wheel, windows and a crew! I decided to use 2 Lego characters from the Lego movie, E …
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Aeronaut TIM RC wood building
… rical model from wood, with the sound of the “Odilo” harbor tug in Maasbracht. The engine is the Industrie 2vd5. 1st test on the water at model building club www.mbczl.nl The real tug from 1924 is still in the museum harbor in LEER Germany …
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Fairey huntsman 31 47 restoration
… y life but I think compared to when I first brought the big tug home I’m hopefully doing it justice time for a few days off now to look after the mrs after her op
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First trials
… an audience. The other boat you can see in the video is his tug project, now successfully ballasted. Have to say I was very pleased with the manoeuvrability of the boat, was thinking I might need to fit a mixer for the steering but she turn …
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Motor ?
… f ESC . My question is would this motor combo do me for the tug?I And it's pretty reasonable at £18.
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Starter for 10
… and that will give me a template if I want to make another tug .
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Superstructure paint, glazing and freeing ports.
… hed, filled imperfections and sanded .now, I tend to run my tugs on the lighter edge of their ballast range, as I think they are more lively when maneuvering. If I’m given a waterline range, I shoot for ballasting at the lower half of the r …
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HMCS GLENSIDE
… ne, I’m currently building 1/32nd model of the Canadian WW2 tug Glenside. The tug was built for the Canadian navy in the forties. Some of the Glen class tugs were sold to Foundation Maritime. I will be making this tug as per the Foundation …
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Coxswain
… just for the soft rubber tyres, to use as fenders around my tugs. Happy rummaging.
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Bottom Paint, Decking, Grating.
… today and did some work on the grating at the stern of the tug. Will be painting the sides of the hull black in a day or so. She will not look newly painted for long as I like to weather my ships. Tomorrow will be making deck fittings and …
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Stern issues for the KFK
… omments and photos. Despite the ugly design (at least for a tug), the Aquacraft fiberglass hull appears to be quite strong and a good base for a KFK. It looks like the underside of the hull near the propeller is quite different and could be …
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Atlantic to KFK conversion, WWYD
… this thought about converting the ugly Aquacraft "Atlantic" tug to something more real-ish looking. Running with the idea of a fishing vessel, I came across a Kriegsfischkutter (KFK for short), a WWII German patrol craft. Attached is a draw …
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Great Call
Roy, what a good call on the hull shape for the "Atlantic" tug restoration. Some the older European fishing trawler hull shape is quite similar to the Atlantic tug. Going one step further, I found the Kriegsfischkutter (KFK) a very interest …
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Cabin
… fit, so he went to the plastic surgeon and now fits as the tugs pilot. That’s all for now, since im going back to work im going to take it easy for a few evenings before i attempt any bench time. Cash
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Russian KC100D waterjet work boat project
… e unit has 10 sound choices, a few of which might be ok for tugs etc with a bit of a play. JB
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Wood pack
… l, frames and deck (photos to follow)this is a Chine hulled tug and was fortunate when clearing out my late mothers house up the loft (attic) were a few old plywood tea chests in the need of some t.l.c . Cheers Marky
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Update….
… the couple of days I have done a bit of work on the us army tug, hull shaping ect, I think it’s turned out pretty well for a novice. The cable ties really helped with keeping the shape while the glue dried with the help of a few pins. Bit m …
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Winter Project
… de up a deck sheet & now I need to think about type of boat Tugboat, Chris Craft or Speed boat. I added a little slogan I found on my liquor box & thought it is appropriate for model boat builders. We all have had boats get wet from rain; s …
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Russian K100D waterjet work boat project
… siren on the cross bar between them ( smaller Russian boats/tugs etc have coded siren signals rather than air horns ) There are 2 lights on top of each board plus a nav light. I assume the top lights (which seem to be blue) are working ligh …