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📝 RNLB RUTH ANN
10 years ago by 🇺🇸 bangzoomer (
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Greetings from Hollywood, California. 😎 Many thanks to David Metcalf at Metcalf Moldings for his advice and for so graciously replacing parts I messed up. This craft has been swimming pool tested (after all we're in Hollywood) and it ran beautifully. Next stop is the local pond. I chose brass counter-rotating props. Those are lithium batteries tucked under the sides. I chose to recut the decks out of wood. Brits rave about plastic but I found it difficult to cut and forget about sanding down the edges. (I guess if you cut it properly you don't need to sand the edge.) Major mistake: watching a You Tube video that told me I should make brass joints using a Propane torch. it will make a good joint but it MELTS ALL THE OTHERS. There was a lot of learning here for me and thanks to David's fine kit I think I'm somewhat of a better model builder.
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💬 my boats
10 years ago by 🇺🇸 bangzoomer ( Leading Seaman)
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Terrific!
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💬 ANTEO TUGBOAT
10 years ago by 🇺🇸 bangzoomer ( Leading Seaman)
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I'd be glad to. it's on the Cornwall Model Boat site. Enter
Laser & Photo-Etched Sheets and you will find it. it is the brass fittings the way PAN ART should have done them.
It was the brass sheets that shot me down on the Anteo. Double planking, okay. An engine that sat about an inch higher than the shaft, okay again. But the brass! Who can cut out the window frames without damaging some of them! Not me!
I will try building the Anteo again, but I'll buy the photo etched brass set FIRST to see what I'm in for.
😄 The Anteo is a beautiful classic tug - a real workhorse tug. Good luck.
Laser & Photo-Etched Sheets and you will find it. it is the brass fittings the way PAN ART should have done them.
It was the brass sheets that shot me down on the Anteo. Double planking, okay. An engine that sat about an inch higher than the shaft, okay again. But the brass! Who can cut out the window frames without damaging some of them! Not me!
I will try building the Anteo again, but I'll buy the photo etched brass set FIRST to see what I'm in for.
😄 The Anteo is a beautiful classic tug - a real workhorse tug. Good luck.
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💬 ANTEO TUGBOAT
10 years ago by 🇺🇸 bangzoomer ( Leading Seaman)
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Thanks for the reply - even though I posted mine about 3 years ago. Still... thanks. I actually dumped my ANTEO. Since doing that I have noticed the BRASS TRIM is for sale by other companies for the ANTEO with everything already trimmed out. Might try one more time.
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📝 WESTBOURNE MODEL CO.
11 years ago by 🇺🇸 bangzoomer ( Leading Seaman)
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Thanks Canada... I ordered my Graupners as Graupner was going BANKRUPT.... I learned that weeks later. Before I learned that - again - I sent them countless e-mails and left phone messages - LONG DISTANCE CALLS - LOS ANGELES to the UK - EXPENSIVE ! ! ! NO REPLY. Westbourne should not list their e-mail and phone number if they intend to Ignore all e-mails and phone calls.
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📝 Motors and voltage
11 years ago by 🇺🇸 bangzoomer ( Leading Seaman)
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I have twin Graupner turbos. They take 12 volts. I don't like the size and weight of the 12 volt batteries I find. Smaller batteries are the ones used for electric flight. But they are 14 volts. Would this fry the motor?
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📝 WESTBOURNE MODEL CO.
11 years ago by 🇺🇸 bangzoomer ( Leading Seaman)
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Thanks for the reply. I understand the Graupner situation.... NOW. But if they're not going to answer emails why bother to put a "contact us" bar in their website. 13 emails and TWO transAtlantic phone calls - NOTHING. The need to treat people with more dignity than that.
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💬 tamar
11 years ago by 🇺🇸 bangzoomer ( Leading Seaman)
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Spray or brush?
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💬 speedline 1/12 tamar
11 years ago by 🇺🇸 bangzoomer ( Leading Seaman)
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The Melcalf Mouldings boat is astounding but the window frames are plastic to be painted silver when I get there. Yours look like they're made out of metal.
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💬 speedline 1/12 tamar
11 years ago by 🇺🇸 bangzoomer ( Leading Seaman)
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I came so close to buying this kit but at the last minute I found the Alice Upjohn Lifeboat by Metcalf Mouldings and went with that. I'll follow your blog to see how it goes. I think this will be my next.
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📝 WESTBOURNE MODEL CO.
11 years ago by 🇺🇸 bangzoomer ( Leading Seaman)
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Nothing! Nothing! 13 emails. Two telephone messages from Los ANgeles to the UK. No reply to these postings. it's okay. I reversed the credit card payment and found motors elsewhere. Westbourne does not care - it should be obvious tI anyone. Building a model boat is supposed to be pleasant and relaxing - NOT STRESSFUL ! ! !
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📝 WESTBOURNE MODEL CO.
11 years ago by 🇺🇸 bangzoomer ( Leading Seaman)
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I ordered two Graupner motors. Graupner as you may know has gone BANKRUPT. They are being liquidated. Westbourne dos not have my motors. Maybe they intend to hunt some down. Maybe they intend to just keep my money. I have launched a dispute with my credit card company. At some point I will get my money back. I scoured the internet in the USA and found someone who had the two motors I needed.
But I build model boats so I can .... RELAX ! ! ! Not go through this. Westbourne - we have words in America that describe you. Promise to answer one of my many emails and I will tell you what these words are.
But I build model boats so I can .... RELAX ! ! ! Not go through this. Westbourne - we have words in America that describe you. Promise to answer one of my many emails and I will tell you what these words are.
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📝 WESTBOURNE MODEL CO.
11 years ago by 🇺🇸 bangzoomer ( Leading Seaman)
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Thank you. I expected the problem to be something like that. Westbourne cannot ship what it does not have. But I do not exaggerate when I tell you I have sent Westbourne 13 emails at this point to two separate e-mail address AND I have made TWO phone calls from Los Angeles to Westbourne and left detailed messages on their answering machine. ANY reply from them would be appreciated. But their choice is to NOT respond. And so you and I can only GUESS.
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📝 WESTBOURNE MODEL CO.
11 years ago by 🇺🇸 bangzoomer ( Leading Seaman)
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I'm a member living In Los Angeles, California. I ordered two Graupner motors from Westbourne FIVE WEEKS ago. My credit card bill says Westbourne got their money. So far - no motors! I have called Westbourne from Los Angeles twice. They have not responded. I have also sent over a dozen emails. Again -- no reply. Has Westbourne gone out of business? Do they simply not care? Is their company run by fools? If anyone knows someone at Westbourne please give them a shout. Tell them Jim In Los Angeles wonders why he's being Ignored for over a month.
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📝 semI kits
11 years ago by 🇺🇸 bangzoomer ( Leading Seaman)
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I have never made a boat from a semI kit. THis one has many parts drawn In the plans and a supply of wood sheeting and plastic sheeting. I have the proper cutting tools... MY QUESTION: do I trace these parts onto the plastic? Or would It be better to glue each part piece of the plan to the plastic or wood with RUBBER CEMENT and use It as the cutting template? 😊
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📝 AEROKITS
12 years ago by 🇺🇸 bangzoomer ( Leading Seaman)
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I'm In Los Angeles, California. I love seeing the work done on Aerokits lifeboats on this website. I'd love to build one of my own but, from what I can see, Aerokits has not been In business for quite some time. If anyone has an Areokits lifeboat In the box... I'd love to see If we could make a deal.
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📝 STERLING CORVETTE
12 years ago by 🇺🇸 bangzoomer ( Leading Seaman)
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The 48 inch Sterling Corvette. The company went under long ago. Finding the kit complete in the box is so very difficult. One of the most gorgeous private boat kits ever. I attempted to build it twice in my life. The first time Vietnam got in the way. Later a move from New York to Los Angeles got in the way. I found this completed boat and bought it from the owner. I hope to find the kit some day and build my own FINALLY and do as good a job as this builder.
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📝 ANTEO by PANART
13 years ago by 🇺🇸 bangzoomer ( Leading Seaman)
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Has anyone built this tug ? ? ? I am about to attach the brass plates that rim the upper section of the hull. The square and oval opens In the brass have not been punched out. I am attempting to open these with a jeweler's saw. CAREFULLY. The brass Is thin - It can bend easily. These openings on the brass trim - can the brass belt be put ON the boat and THEN the openings are sawed open??? At this point I'm thinking of not sawing these opening at all -- I have extra brass trim.
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📝 MOTOR INSTALLATION
13 years ago by 🇺🇸 bangzoomer ( Leading Seaman)
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Building the ANTEO TUGBOAT by PANART. THe prop shaft sits low In the hull. THey want me to mount the motor higher -connect It to the shaft by a pulley. Where do I get a belt and pulley??? NO IDEA!
I'm thinking of cutting out 60 percent of the keel after I beef It up on both sides with parallell supports.
Any thoughts?
I'm thinking of cutting out 60 percent of the keel after I beef It up on both sides with parallell supports.
Any thoughts?
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📝 Jim's PT
13 years ago by 🇺🇸 bangzoomer ( Leading Seaman)
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My thanks to Mosquito Boat Hobbies for their semi-kit... saved me weeks of work... probably months. it's a shame Dumas has stopped making their 48 inch hull. I was lucky to score this hull on EBAY. Runs on two max size Astro Flight motors with a 12 volts.
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