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Deck line in place!
… ructions were very well written! Having built my last three tugs. By Dumas of course! Has given me more knowledge. On what to do with a more advanced kit! In this Billing Boats kit. You better know your way around the build! Or have a lot o …
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Kort Nozzles Arrived!
… be and the fittings kit! Then I will start the Build of the Tug: Smit Nederland! Oh, I do have another pair coming from Canada. Can't have too many Kort Nozzles!
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Drawing the Miss Katherine
This 44’ tugboat has intrigued me for several years. The owner has told me it is 44’ LOA and 12’-6” Outside width. All the rest has been guess work. In the photos I have, there are clues..2x6; 2x8 lumber; a step ladder which has an average …
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Cheap glue
… revent the petrol eating any glue) The goop remaining on my tug hull (around 45") went quite firm after a few months and made the hull really tough (only that and some 8oz cloth for the center 1/3 of the hull. Had no problem with it going o …
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Night Watch
… her patrols will be on shore for the moment, until we get a tug or launch ready for temporary duty. However, all is not lost! I visited the Inland Mckinney Shipyards and Studebaker storage, and it looks as if we already have a replacement f …
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Hazelgarth
… --> Tommy Dev. Now in Somalia? Cheers, Doug http://www.tynetugs.co.uk/hazelgarth1959.html
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Pocahontas Lobster Yacht
In that same boatyard is this small tug. Any clues as to it’s use? Are there any similar kits that could be modified? The second photo is it’s current condition minus the wooden frame work. The first shows it from a few years ago in use and …
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Scale models for sale in NZ
… of the Auckland Harbour board. He was also a Kiwi and owned tugs and ships from the 50s. Just found a model being built of one of his companies ships on a union site. That ship ended up in Fiji as the Spirit Of Free Enterprise, not sure if …
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Scale models for sale in NZ
… torbike battery. Looks 60s/70s and is fully carvel planked. Tug (Billings, Smit Rotterdam) has all the fittings. Hovermarine is a complete old kit We had a Hovermarine vessel (Wakatere, - see pic) in Auckland in the 80s taking passengers ro …
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Fibre optic lighting
… It's in Pittsfield Pete's Blog about modding his Richardson tug. Pics attached. Also showing the 'visual aids needed, especially for inspecting the soldering and polarities before applying power!!
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Night Watch
… the Western Squadron and the disposition / disposal of the tug St Jacinto. Weather report Munich Operations Area attached. Reports from all Operational Areas / Hotspots expected by 00:00 hours. Plain sailing and a quiet night to all, FLEET …
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Re: Email Sent!
… It also has quite a few black and white photos of the real Tug and fittings. If it will help your build I can take some photos of them for you. Martin555.
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Re: Rear Admiral!
… iral You are herewith assigned duties as Flag Officer Fleet Tug Squadron. So get steam up and get yourself over to the Operations Centre, Ostpark Lake pronto for your Flag raising ceremony! Where are you going to hoist your flag, which vess …
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(Working Vessel) Eppleton Hall
… in the process of building a 32nd scale model of the paddle tug "Eppleton Hall" from scratch, for the most part. (Motor: 540 MFA 919D) (ESC: VIPER Marine 25) (10/10). All electronics have now been installed including 2 motors, 2 ESC's, a sm …
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Re: Brooklyn's Maiden Voyage!
… ey like I just bought, see pic to get her to the lake. (The tug silly, not Jenny) Cheers, Doug
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my harbour
… ed this week just got to sort ballast shes then done and my tug new esc coming today for her and she will be sailing by next weekend
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Kirklees MBC open day 2019
… t a small selection, a couple of bargains were there, a big tug kit by Mobile Marine, complete with graupner 900bb motor and 75mm brass prop, all for £150! Rooky
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Re: Just another, Smit Nederland Build!
Looks a lot like my Southampton (AKA Wyeforce) tug Ed Have fun with it. Cheers, Doug
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Night Watch
… his Man Cave to recuperate from the unfortunate Ocean Going Tug debacle. You win some - you lose some! I fear Congress, SWMBO Commitee, will delete the program from his Western Command budget though! So it looks like you have the deck Middy …
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Night Watch
… mmodore Figtree is still hanging around somewhere (perusing tug model catalogues in the Wardroom I expect), and Lt. Marky has retired to the CO's Day Cabin, absorbing his medicinal Wee Dram. WO Rooky is probably in the Gun Room CPO Cash is …
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Not at all amused!
… do? I'm very use to building with mesurements! Looks as if Tug Atlantic is going to be shipped back!!!!!!️️️
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Graupner Taucher Wulf-an ongoing drama
… lt 2 more boats in the past year, the Neptun and a Springer tug, and I learned a lot from both of them, so I pulled the Taucher from it’s hiding spot and began anew. I will post some pics from last year, then I’ll post the most recent. I ma …
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Work with Balsa wood
… 964 is decked in 3/8"x1/8" balsa over 1/4" frames. My 4' 6" tug built in the 1970's has its Hull and decks in balsa, decks 3/16" thick planks. And the Hull is 1/4" thick x 1/2" wide planks. Then my grandfather's tug built in the early 1950' …
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Re: Fairmount Alpine
… Christmas" Jugge Looks good Attached pics of my Southampton tug mast light conversion. Cheers, Doug
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EeZeBilts From Keil Kraft
… chnical description of the reason water sticks to surfaces. Tugs usually have heavy ballast and are more likely to have waves breaking over them than to ride up and over them. And sealing a deck effectively is going to depend very much on t …
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Offshore Crane Vessel Bokalift 1, Build by Dutch sailing group Mail-line
… ing the conversion. Partly because many members already had tugs from shipping company Smit, the decision was made to build a model of the BokaLift 1. (scale 1/50) During a construction meeting in spring 2018, the members decided to build t …
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Dumb Barge
Having a couple of tugs in my fleet. I always considered building a dumb barge to play with. However i was always concerned about the weight required for ballast, etc. However june 2019 model boats mag has come to the rescue. The hull desig …
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Coming soon.
You are going to a SteamPunk festival dressed as a tugboat !?