LewZ
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Admiral · 8,676 pts
Clearwater, Florida, Florida, United States
Member since Jan 2022
Last online 3 days ago
Age 82
About
Retired (in 1997) senior designer of test/production equipment and CAD Operations Specialist. Hobbies: RC scale model boats; RC scale armor; 3D modeling & 3D printing; model photography and videos; web site design and maintenance.
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Lew
Florida, USA
Home page: https://www.RCFlorida.org/lmb
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25 boatsStandard Oil Tug
`This boat has been disposed of. No space for it and it does not meet my current quality requirements. Plac…
Trawler (Helen kit by Artesnia Latina, modified; Scale: ~/20)
One model boat I would never thought of buying/building was this one. It was partially built and got a good…
"Star Wars" Patrol Boat
As weird as it sounds I just can't seem to see a model boat go in the trash. In this case, you can see the …
Ironclads of the U.S. Civil War (1861-1865)
Disclosure: First off, these are not my models, but that of the "Old Navy" Steve Lund and Bill Hathaway. I …
PT61 Gunboat WWII (Frank's kit with major mods; Scale: 1/20)
This boat kit was started by buyer and passed though many hands until it finally reached me. The upper righ…
Springer #4 USACOE Stoplog
This is my fourth Springer tug. It was built to resemble the U.S. Army's Corps of Engineers stoplog tug loc…
Modular Barge (Scratch build; Scale: ~1/16)
Want to build a barge to go with a Springer tug? Modular barges are truckable, that is they can be brought …
Modular Barge Set
In order for my truckable push boat ("Springer") to move something I built this modular barge (which are in…
LewZ’s build blogs
17 blogsWell, I finally decided on my next project: *Overhaul the Schnellboot +Wiesel+*. _I bought this Graupner kit in 1975_ in London while we …
I just had a need to clamp some parts together in a tight space and none of my other clamps would work. I came up with the _spring loaded…
Another RC hobby? I'm already into RC scale model boats (since the early 1970's) and RC armor (since 2015) I am branching out to RC scale…
Finally tired of using my launcher (PVC pipe and fittings) and had SSMBC member build me a special one. (He has made a bunch of his versi…
Episode: Introduction This is series of episodes will be about the features and updates of the SSMBC (Tampa Bay Area, Florida) Portable D…
Many of us have seen or heard of the "Springer" push boat (a.k.a., tug, truckable boat, etc.). Most of them are not scale models but stil…