… er, IF you have an address I will gladly send a cheque. TID TUG

… into its new Port, near Falmouth, Cornwall.As was the real tug, it will be renamed "St.Mawes" and painted in the Falmouth Towage colours, to compliment my 2 other Falmouth Tugs,"St.Denys" and "St.Levan" The real tug, has long since been so …

Hiya Joe This looks more like a Tug hull to me - but that doesn't stop you building it as a fireboat of course - no two models are the same - my 46" fireboat which I'm renovating has a planked deck for instance - no boat going near a fire w …

I have completed my tug boat and thought It would be nice to build a fire boat but can't find a web site for a nice looking kit for a fireboat maybe you can let me know where to look.

… o voltage sense off the robbe motors. Ive also installed a "tug air horn", sounds a bit like an american diesel train horn, but will certanly be heard when across the water! All the navigation and blue/red emergency lights function, the sea …

… advertising fireboats as a "presence" and we dont all sail tugs or sail boats [no offence!]. I visited the international boat show and did see a few fire boats on display, they were great to see and even spotted a sister ship to my own ! [ …

… apped this 1:12 (1"=1') scale model for my ageing Al Khubar tug. This is a good size 52" x 17". As received there were two Bhuler motors and two 30amp ESC's, plus two servos - one for each rudder. initial sea trials at the club lake(www.cre …

I have just acquired this model via a swap for my Al Khubar Tug. I am in the process of deciding which actual lifeboat to model. This is based on the Metcalfe Moulding and is 1/12 scale at 52". in its present condition it has two Buhler mot …

This tug boat is almost finished, she is based om my fiberglass hull. Power is 2x Speed 700, lenght is 104 cm

… en I have made from kits a flower class corvette (matchbox) tug think graupner, then from scratch I have built a morecombe bay prawner semI scale, arun class life boat (mabel alice) from RNLI plans, thought then to try something more ambiti …

… be interested to know where? & have a lookee see about the tug figurines now (please) if not a secret ( unless they also are having a lunch break eating Kebabs as a rerward from their hard work as a racing machine service/repair/fire crew …

… . I think you want 12th for the 46" boat and how big is the tug I may be able to point you in the right direction of some one who does nice tug men if HSL mouldings cannot help . Peter

… rew members for my 46 inch Crash Boat and also for my steam Tug 'Cervia' as such a scale size of half inch to the foot for figurines, is very rare. I do not mind if they are more handsome than me. Please advise me directly when matters comm …

… he ratio numbers the faster the prop will be spinning. With tug boats, you want a gear box with a high ratio like 6:1,7:1,8:1. You could using larger props as well. Examples http://modelfireboats.com/sys_files/images/page/forumratiotable.jp …

this model was made by me from scratch of the london tug Ionia 56 inches long 12inch beam she has a bow thuster fitted to help the steering nav lights and cat diesel sound generator and its very heavy thats why its not in the water very oft …

This tug is in scale 1:25, used two 900 motors. Still need a lot of details. Models are based on my own fiberglass hull

… finished Tito Neri, based on Graupners kit. As all my heavy tugs Tito have installed water ballast instead lead

This tug is based on my own fiberglass hull. She is 91 cm long, two Schottle drives with Speed 900 motors

… een about for far to long prob about 25 years and are ok in tugs slow turning props , these graupner motors are a lot better built and more flexible peter

Svitzer tug Ayton Cross, built by Terry O'Rourke in 2006/2007. Mostly scratch built, on a Mobile Marine Models GRP hull. She is powered by two car heater motors, with a Marx luder bow thruster. I have used an Action kit motor mixer, it work …

This kit model of the seagoing tug Happy Hunter was started in 1983 by a friend of mine. Finding it too difficult, he let it lie until 2006 when he asked my son and I to build it. After 219 hours work it is finished and sailing. it is power …

… is is BG Coulies built by Geoff Lewis. its a French Harbour tug that he built following an article in a well know magazine, advertising a set of plans, thanks to the office photocopier he saved himself several quid. Coullies is driven by 2 …

… s 3 water pumps run by 12 volt. The boat started out as the tug Betty-Bess in 1947, in 1950 a small fire pump was installed driven by a separate engine, in 1972 the extra 2 monitors where installed. it will now pump a 1000 gpm. Enclosed fin …

… or two as they still don't look what I want. This is why my tug is in to its 8th year and rebuild four or five and my other tender is on its second re fit without it seeing paint. But this will finish soon!

HI Tidtug, got any pictures of your crew?