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(Tug Boat) 'Westbourne' PLA Tug
Westbourne is a Port of London Authority steam Tug from the Caldercraft Mini-Fleet Range - it is 1:48 scale. This model was discontinued a few years ago but I did manage to purchase a brand new boxed one via ebay a couple of years ago. it h …
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Flying Scotsman. Iron paddle tug
… format. http://www.john-tom.com/RcShip/Strongbow%20Paddle%20Steamer/StrongbowPlansComplete.pdf Research showed that lots of these tugs were built in the late 1800, using the same design. My build was named because it was one of the last bui …
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Scratch built boats
All that steaming! looks like an early Herreshoff H28 with a cabin mod, ? (similar boat in NZ 1958) Pretty much only undertaken by restorers these days, also the timber is not so available any more. The cost would be prohibitive. JB
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SEA COMANDER RE-FURB.
… ill be laminating two sheets of 1/16 balsa and curving with steam to get that curve. Still waiting on my ESC to arrive. Motor is size 700 with 320a ESC and the 12v 4.5a battery. I put the boat into the water on Sunday, no leaks and the batt …
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Very nearly two Fleet Admirals.
… will be giving us the royal wave from the flag ship as you steam past. I have just finished a tub of ice cream which just happened to be in a GOLD container, so I have created a small congratulatory tribute-pic (complete with obligatory of …
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Model vertical boiler
… very helpful. I wasn't sure if Rick wanted to use an actual steam engine and power it electrically or hide an electric motor in a casing such as might be used over a steam engine in an open launch. All of it would be possible. Given that mo …
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Re: Piscataqua river gundalow
… ot possible to let a sailboat with a keel there. As for the steamer Ned Kelly, unfortunately, I have no video from its operation. After a long break, when I tried to get a more suitable boiler (the original boiler from Wilesco is really onl …
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(Tug Boat) VALIANT
… ring the early 1960's it was given to me at the Abergavenny Steam and vintage show in 2016 by the makers grandson who told me it had been on display in his mums house from 1970 when his grandad died till 1987 when she died then put in his p …
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Re: Piscataqua river gundalow
… hanks for the rating. I really like the older sailboats and steamers with high smoking stacks , from a time, when the ships looked like ships and not shoeboxes. I do not dare to build complex models of ships, rather I am looking for - from …
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Lorraine 2
… ch pin hole, I wont dwell on this to long as i can feel the steam rising as i speak, it was a very laborous task. Then started to have a clean up of all surfaces hull sides , bottom skins and foredeck, ready for a thinned coat of dope. 25% …
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SY Minnow water test
… djustable and may need turning down a bit! The speaker is a steam whistle - I made a port to carry the sound out of a grating in the superstructure but it remains to be seen how effective this is out on the water, only one way to find out a …
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Hull finished less painting and details
… aken a few hours to get all these bits on, some using heat, steam, boiling water ect to get them to conform to the curves. After all pieces were fitted, used some P38 filler to fill and gaps and sanded that back before 2 coats of sanding se …
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Lockdown Complaints
… to walk 5 miles to the local garage to ask for a bucket of steam and a long weight, (or a left handed screwdriver so my grandfather could undo the cupboard hinges) JB
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Fitting the Chines & Rubbing Strakes
… boats and it’s a much quicker and cleaner method than using steam. The next part will cover the fitting of some additional keel parts, drilling the keel to take the propshaft and trimming the chines and strakes in preparation for fitting th …
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HMS Victorious
… t lift goes up and down. Rear turrets all turn. Has a water steam smoke effect boiler. Working bilge pump,plus more. I also want to get the lifting crane to rotate, any ideas anyone, space is not at a premium? Started on the Island only rec …
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Re: The Coromandel
… arnt a lot about the very large industry that small coastal steamers were at the end of the 19 th century. In Bristol where I live is the home to the SS Great Britain and associated with it is a very good marine library which was the source …
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Alwyn Vintcent Build
Scratch built 1:50 scale model of Steam Tug Alwyn Vintcent. Last operating steam tug in South Africa. model. Having completed Sanson (Artesania Latina kit) and Anteo (scratch built using plans from internet scaled to 1:50) I had the "Tug Bu …
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The Coromandel
… efore significant roads, much of the transport was by small steam ships, it was similar in the UK in the Bristol Channel and on the East coast of the USA. Somehow he improved his status by becoming part of the crew of the boat that plied be …
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SY Minnow
This is a small steam yacht (albeit electrically driven) based on Vic Smeed's Silver Mist Hull. The boat isn't complete yet but getting there. I just started working on her again getting the railings built. It'll be some time before I can g …
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Tug Boat Alwyn Vintcent
1:50 Scale scratch built model of last operating steam tug in South Africa. Built using plans I drew up using photographs as reference. Alwyn Vintcent currently being restored by Villiersdorp Vintage Tractor and Engine Club in Villiersdorp, …
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Maid of the LOCH
My scratch built likeness of the paddle steamer Made of the Loch
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Miranda
… e plank on frame.The boat has not been in the water yet.The steam plant has been run in and has an estimated run time of 15 min. With the engine hooked up to the prop shaft and the servos hooked up to a 2 channel unit.I ran on air pressure …
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(Other) Dunlin
… ee foot model. I originally installed a Caton twin cylinder steam engine and Cheddar Puffin boiler but reverted to electric some while ago. The hull is mahogany plank on 6mm ply frames. Due to the fact that she was designed with an increase …
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Re: Crash Tender
… ted to the little one who fired the boiler of a saddle tank steam loco? Idri Ivor? Seen here with 'Jones the Steam' Glad to hear U2 are battling on Cofion gorau (I hope!), Doug
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HMT Resolve by Caldercraft
… here was no contest. My first decision was the power plant. Steam far too expensive and complicated, so I decided on electric. Recommended were 900 brushless motors which are very big lumps. Consultation with Jotika resulted in 540 2.5:1 ge …
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SS Talacre
… Fermoy, Cork, Ireland. She has a Foggy smoke unit in there, Steam Sound,Nav lights and a Mast head light.
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PS Enterprise
… a ready source of hardwood for building and powering paddle steamers. The tannin from a handful of eucalyptus leaves thrown into the boiler also prevented the interior walls from corroding. The Enterprise is known as a ‘shallow drafter’ bec …
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Funnels, Awning and Lifeboats
… e again with an eye for detail, even a lever to operate the steam whistle. This will be attached to the flying bridge once in place. Using 0.7mm steel wire, painted matt black, makes it so much easier to get the tension right in the rigging …