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Pooh, River tugboat
… s the background. Now, in my RC boat collection, I have two tug boats, but those are models of much larger tugboats and I have a soft spot for them. What I am looking for is to get/purchase a hull ( hopefully with a motor and prop ), that I …
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Re: Re: Pooh, River tugboat
… r me. At one point or another someone will be selling a big tug boat / hull or a project I can pick up for reasonable cost. You think in Florida, there would be such an event. Thank you Isaac
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Re: Pooh, River tugboat
Good Morning Issac! There are a lot of great tug boat enthusiasts on this site, they will be a huge help. But, for my two cents...You might want to check out the tugs at the Dumas site as their Lord Nelson Victory tug seems to have the line …
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Re: Tames tug boat( is it cevia)
… xia does not along with my memory, I was close still a nice tug Philuk
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Re: Tames tug boat( is it cevia)
I think you might mean "Cervia" a Thames tug around in the 1950's. Roy
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Jimwilder Tug diesel sound generator
… Canadian. P/S it's been a few months since I worked on the tug and man is it dusty. Next chore cleaning off all the dust.
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Re: Johny Harbour Tug
… f Aero-naut kits. 5 sailing boats, 2 open speed boats and 2 tugs, 1 built (Kalle2) and 1 yet to be built when the mood takes me (TIM).
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Another tug🤣 Dumas ST74 Army Tug
… ut since I have quite a few 4mm props, I elected to set the tug up with a 4mm shaft and tube. I had a very long Caldercraft Fineline unit that I cut down, and used the cut ends bushing to mate with the tube. Once I had it freed, I pressed i …
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HMS Pert (HMT RNAS Steam Side Paddle Tug)
Pert was a Robust Class Royal Navy tug that served in both World Wars in several ports along England's southern coast and flew the Blue Ensign. She was constructed by J Thornycroft and commissioned in 1916 then broken up in 1962. During bot …
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Model Slipways Yorkshireman Tug
… ing on the refurbishment of the Model Slipways Yorkshireman tug, most of the hull paint has now been removed, in doing so I have found that all the rudders are of W/M also one of the skeg’s had broken, so I will now have to; 1 make two new …
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Re: New project an inland tug
First photo shows the reference point for this build;Inland tug VLB2. Hull bulwark marked for trimming in #2 and cuts made in #3.propulsion will be a single steerable Kort nozzle.
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re Tug hull paint
It has been suggested that tug hulls are all black and that red oxide wasn't painted on some of my Mountfield models Crusier being one that should have a black hull and no red help please from some learned person
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re Tug hull paint
… here rudder out of the water mind you have seen a barge hit tug because he didn't see the rudder
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re Tug hull paint
… ? Maybe others will weigh in on this too? Am I correct that tugboats that operate in salt water must be painted with a different type of paint than those operating in freshwater? So a tugboat working on the Great Lakes or other large inland …
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re Tug hull paint
Following a recent trip to Falmouth docks a tug there is painted copper/red paint on the bottom 1/3rd and the rudder is red also above is black
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re Tug hull paint
Yes, I would say 90% of Tugs traditionally have black hulls, red anti-fouling bottoms grey or green decks and white superstructure. I have seen some fleet tugs with red hulls. For models I spray red oxide primer an the whole outside hull fi …
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re Tug hull paint
… o this, the only thing I can say is that all my 1900s steam tugs are all black below the water ling and Red above, the ones that are from the late 1940 are red oxide below. Fred
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re Tug hull paint
… ould do is base the color scheme to be the same as the real tug being modeled. If no data on that particular tug can⁸ be found then you might look at similar tugs associated with the subject. That could be those in the same company, region, …
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QUICKWATER another small tug
Some photos of another tug I’m working on. The inspiration is BEAUPRE, but not to be a duplication. Next couple of photos are the massing study I always perform to get a sense of size & location. F/G hull of the Brooklyn tug is the start po …
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Re: Cruiser tug boat Mountfleet models
Looks like a Calder tug boat I owned once. It was for sale at a shop in Salem MA. They closed and boat never seen again. Fiberglass hull and very good parts. Nice job
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Re: Cruiser tug boat
This "Cruiser" tug appears to be different from the other one previously posted. Lew Florida ️, USA
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Re: (Working Vessel) Villa Class Tugboat
… deck major items, just above deck improvements. With these tugs the various tow lines are stowed in a locker below the aft deck. To get into it requires removing a number of bolts, the lift the hatch cover, remove the required length of li …
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Steam tugboat tow hooks
My photos of the original SAR&H tug "CF Kayser" show two apparently identical tow hooks. Anyone know why? Is the one simply an emergency spare?
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Steam tugboat tow hooks
This tug operated in Port Elizabeth in South Africa and as far as I know, barges were never used there but I stand to correction on that.
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Steam tugboat tow hooks
When towing more than one line of tugs, they will often run a line to the lead barge in each row, so they could run a line to each hook.
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Re: Another Tug
That older tug looks much like a plastic Lindberg 1/72 scale model I had built once. Beautiful classic US tug lines.
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Re: Another Tug
… oice of prototypes to follow. I have always loved the older tugs.
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Re: Another Tug
Keep the one the cat demolished and have the tug towing in. Tugboats need a job!