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A selection of tug that I have built
this is a small selection of tugs that I have built in the last few years, I have been building model tugs for about 45 years and have many pictures of them if anybody is interested the first is Ionia at 1/24th scale scratchbuilt,then 3 Sun …
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Modified Southampton Tug
I hate leaving models as standard, the Southampton Tug a RTR model, needed to be more manoeuvrable, so removed original 27Mhz receiver and fitted Two Electronic speed controllers one for each motor, and a 2.4Ghz receiver. The model will now …
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Sun Tug 25
based on a Lesro kit of the MK21 Sun tug. This slightly later version was fitted with fire monitors for handling tankers in the thames esturary as well as normal docking duites of liners and freighters. Fitted with a decaperm 3:2 geared mot …
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Sun Tug MK25
My Sun Tug MK25 version, originally adapted from a Lesro Sun Tug Kit, actually still being built [not quite yet complete] but seaworthy enough to get some testing time in the water. it has more than enough power to haul my dusseldorf along …
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john king tug
my john king tug scratch built from a mmI plan . 950 motor turing 70mm prop on 12vlt power.
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DOUGLAS GREG TUG SAN PEDRO
HERE ARE SOME PHOTOS OF MY 1971 DOUGLAS CREG TUG SAN PEDRO IN DISPLAY AND UNDERWAY FRANKLYN DAY RETIRED U.S.S. NAVY BMC
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Freelance tug - sort of!
As the name suggests, this is a scratch build sort of tug. The hull is based on a (very small) Pinacce photo of a model steam open boat. I did not fancy making a steam unit (time is the problem) and I had had an idea of doing a tug for quit …
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Scratch built SDM MkII tug built by UmI Ryuzuki
Scratch built SDM MkII tug 1/48 scale. Hull started out as polystyrene foam and plywood. Started July 29,2006 and in the water by Aug. 11th for sea trials. Detailed over the following 18 months. The model is powered by 12vdc using Graupner …
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Prototype 1880s Victorian Tug Built by Rod Arnold
Scratched built prototype 1880s victorian tug (hull) by Metcalf Mouldings H.M.S kit length 44" beam 10". The original tug was built to tow sailing ships in shallows, hence it's shallow draught and wide beam. Well that's my story and I'm sti …
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Tug Boats built by Roger Forlines
… epict a long voyage on the north seas. Also, the Jim Wilder tug, this took four months to build and has been built to look like a turn of the century steam tug which worked the San Fransisco bay area. The last picture it is dressed up for C …
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Saito Hercules Live Steam Tug
Another resurrected boat (15 years on a shelf)
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Model Tugs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dpnVeBuMcqU
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Amsterdam Tug
Built
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Push Tug Rescue Boat
This is nuts but I’m already designing what my scratch built rescue boat will look like. I’m hand drawing all of the lines on tracing paper in case that I need to change something but in the next few days I will clean it and finish it so yo …
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Here's a few pic's of the slightly modified 85 foot US Army tug...
Hi, guys. I am finishing the rails and hope to find a pond or swimming pool in this landlocked, god-forsaken city I live in. I have decided the Corgi one-man Yellow Submarine looked spiffy. I have lost me sea legs, lads! Jeebus save me!
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Sound Generator for Midwest tug
Had a little trouble getting my sound to work properly but with a little fiddling got it working a lot better had to reverse motor leads & switch transmitter forward -reverse switch so it would work in forward direction .
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Loganville tugboat out of the water
The Loganville is out of the water for its annual inspection and scrapping before being repainted. Here is my model of it.
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Tug
This is my first scratch build. I used hand tools and a jig saw to cut out the frame. and bulk heads. Keel and frame was cut out of plywood and the rest. of the boat is balsa. I out fitted with parts from various pieces I had pick up at hob …
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RC model Lulonga river tug
I built this model during four long years. my Lulonga is nearly whole scratchbuilt model (about 75 cm long) except the steering wheel and position lamps. The model has a plywood and balsa hull construction ,plywood decks,from hard polystyre …
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Marian Belle' Empire Class Tug.
Finally completed after near enough four years work off and on. Mind I am very happy with the result, the superstructure was slightly modified so as the steam plant can be removed easily in one piece.
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Tug Brooklyn Tub Test!
Just a 2 minute tub test. While adding her ballast! She's a beast! She must weigh in at 9 or 10 pounds!
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USCG 140' BAY CLASS ICEBREAKING TUG
AFTER RECEIVING LONG-AWAITED GLOBALLY SOURCED COMPONENTS, I DID A PRELIM DRIVELINE INSTALL/DRY FIT ON THE USCG 140'ER. 4MM SHAFT/BOX & RABOESCH 5-BLADE SKEWED WHEEL ARE FROM CORNWALL BOATS (UK), THE MOUNT AND U-JOINT COUPLER ARE BBQ ROUTISS …
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mobile marine nangee tug my latest boat
given to me as a project finished it recently ready to sail
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Tug Tow
Thought you might appreciate these....Towing a 30 Ton barge with 30 Tons of metal in it at Ellesmere Port Boat Museum, 1996. Making an unofficial Record. (35 mm pics)
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Jimwilder Tug #2
Nov.1 2016 weather great for Nov. here in Burlington Ontario at Spencer's boat pond . I'v posted a build log on this Midwest model but never showed it on water
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Rhiannon Eve TID tug
Rebuilt TID from a Bring and Buy table. MFA 800 12v , 55mm prop built to tow
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Toby Tug (previously a Seaport Workboat)
Here's the photos of the cord coming through the middle of the crane, connected to the sail winch on the bottom end. The bracket to get it to go round 90 degrees had to be modified as it started jamming with no weight on the hook, now a pie …
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Toby Tug (previously a seaport workboat)
Crane story part 3! Now that the jib raised and lowered, I had to tackle rotating the turret. I canibilsed a radar setup I'd made (again from helicopter parts after a crash!) to rotate the turret. Video of the radar motor in operation shown …