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Model Slipways Yorkshireman Tug
Hi One & All Monday past I picked up a Yorkshireman from one of the Crowborough MBC members for a very good price £120, he said the it was a loft find, but to me it looks more like a garage or shed find, the hull paint work is all flakey an …
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Model Slipways Yorkshireman Tug
Thank you Stephen for this info, i will give him a call. I had to do the same on my Tsekoa, I can only put it down to age, as a lot of the W/M fittings just full apart when I touch them. Fred
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Model Slipways Yorkshireman Tug
The skeg parts and rudder are the same as the one Tony Green makes for his Hibernia least they are on my Yorkshireman
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re Tug hull paint
Hi Jumpugly, what a great genius your father had! It should also be put on those poor sea turtles. Have you ever seen any videos of sea turtles full of barnacles? Luckily when they find them many fishermen free them by removing them manuall …
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Post of the Month Lew!!!!!!!!!
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I wondered why I didn't have any barnacles in my stomach - Chilli Powder! Lew
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re Tug hull paint
Under-hull painting colors. There are a large variety of colors to choose from. Depends on fresh water versus salt water uses (brackish water tends to use salt water cover), but also subject to what is caused by marine growth including non- …
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My Dad used to add the chilli powder to the paint. Barnacles didn’t approve he’d say.
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I would think that the antifouling paint for fresh water has less chemicals in it, as there must be less chance for any sort of marine growth. Fred
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Model Slipways Yorkshireman Tug
Hi Ronald I have tried cleaning the windows, the thing is I can only cut out some of the W/H floor, as a lot of the W/H if fitted out. Talking of windows I do have to make the wipers and motor box. Fred
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Model Slipways Yorkshireman Tug
Hi One & All Hermank I think you are pulling my leg. Ronald thank you for the photo's, so far I have just cleaned the deck I am still working on the wheel house then it will be the railings, yes I have gone overboard (pun intended) with the …
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Model Slipways Yorkshireman Tug
Fred a good day These pictures are fraude!!!! They are taken on the real boat not on the model !!!!!!
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Model Slipways Yorkshireman Tug
Over the last few weeks I have neem cloning the Yorkshireman, here a some before and after fred
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Model Slipways Yorkshireman Tug
Hi One & All, over the last few weeks I have been cleaning the Yorkshireman, this is were I now need your help, What is the paint number for the deck lockers mine look like a cream colour? In the clean I found that I am missing a Bulkhead l …
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My tugboat towing a barge
I found this video file of the RC model of the Beamsville towing the barge Mereme The Mereme is the barge used by Marcel in Tofino, BC which we saw in May during our visit with Marcel Theriault.
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re Tug hull paint
Thinking a bit more on this, at one time wooden ships had copper covered bottoms, so would they have used a mix of tar and copper dust? That would give a sort of a brown colour. Fred
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I would agree with Lew all you can is check out the internet for pictures and go by that. Philuk
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Model Slipways Yorkshireman Tug
O.K Thomas Gainsborough I am not. To give me an idea of how it will look with a yellow top, I do like it. Fred
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Model Slipways Yorkshireman Tug
Hi One & All I have now finished doing the cleaning of the Yorkshireman, all the new elec parts are on order, so the next thing on the to do list is repaint the hull, now I am thinking I just may do the top of the hull Yellow, time to play …
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Model Slipways Yorkshireman Tug
Hi One & All O.K with the old brain box in gear, I have worked out just were the wheel went. One thing that I am not happy with are the hand screws that are used to move the Crain about, so I was thinking that may be if I made a small box w …
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Model Slipways Yorkshireman Tug
Hi One & All I am in need of your help again, as I was cleaning off the crap from the deck, I found under the Rib on the starboard side a small wheel, as it is made of whitmetel I can only think it has came from the crane. If you have made …
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Model Slipways Yorkshireman Tug
Hi One & All Thank you to Ian for finding the Action diagram of the wiring layout (see Action Electronics) so later on today I will start trying to sort out the rats nest. In the mean time I have started on cleaning up the crane deck, I use …
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Model Slipways Yorkshireman Tug
Almost looks like a 'bottom of the pond' find. Spiders must have been water spiders
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Model Slipways Yorkshireman Tug
Rob I will only be doing a light restoration on this one, just a repaint of the hull and some work on the deck ect. Fred
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Model Slipways Yorkshireman Tug
As someone who does a great deal of model boat restoration work, I have to agree that your project is going to be labor-intensive, but possibly worth the effort. It may be true that restoring a boat in this condition might take longer than …
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Model Slipways Yorkshireman Tug
Hi One & All I can say with hand on hart that the state of this boat is all down to age and being kept some were damp, I had cleaned off most of the cobwebs and removed the dead spiders before I took the photos. Fred
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Model Slipways Yorkshireman Tug
Actually it looks like the model was deliberately "weathered" by the builder to look old, worn out from a hard life - and a most excellent job he did too.
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Model Slipways Yorkshireman Tug
Hi One & All Thank you for your comments. I think that most of it will be a clean up job, a repaint of the hull after I have fixed the bilge keels, along with some repainting of the deck and deck fixings, the worst will be trying to replace …