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Tugboat Serenity
No Tug is Complete with out it's Mascot, meet Spot her Dog. Spot,is the only crew member I have right now. I'm looking forward to collecting the rest in the future
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Tugboat Serenity (AKA) Jersey City
Tug: Serenity is an on going Project I started awhile back. she's completed but I keep adding on!
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Adding a search light to the new Crick krane for my tug
I was adding accessories to my Aquacraft tug bost and needed to add a searchlight to a Crick krane. I bought this light (photo) but I don't know how to make the electric circuit (shame on me) Please help!
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Oliver W, 37" tug boat
… wly born nephew, yup, you guessed It he's five now, and his tug will be finished next weekend when they come for a visit! Scratch built, Ram sound unit, Bilge pump, single 12V brushed motor, Dumas mechanical speed control, a single water mo …
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GAVINATOR service tug boat for oil rigs
the boat Is actually the fairmount alpine a dutch super tug. This Is my first scratch build from a pdf file I found online. I had a survey supply shop blow It up 300% for me and made templates from the plans and hit the saws and started to …
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Jervis Titan Tug model with a job
… t we burn as firewood on beach patio and our fireplace. The tug will be used to push these back to shore where I can reach them with a pipe pole, and hoist them up with my crane. The boat will be very crude in its finishing, and have very l …
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Director class tug
… -propelled vessel is just an interesting subject, and these tugs were probably the final development of paddle propulsion. This will be a 'scratch' build, but the hull is from the Kingston Mouldings range, and many of the fittings will be f …
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Tug restoration
This is the tug as I obtained it an altered version of the Slipway Wyeforce
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A Cullermix tug conversion
I bought this old tug from a well known internet site ,and set to making her look more like the craft tug she was meant to be The Blue Circle Cement co tug Cullermix. The first things to do were to strip it all down to the bare hull which m …
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Assurance Class Tug
Rear Deck of the Assurance Class Tug now ready to be put into the hull, the towing hook box area has been made stronger to insure that it can pull without breaking. Now to get it ready for it undercoat of paint.
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WWII Assurance Class Rescue Tug
… have just started to build this wwII Assurance Class Rescue tug. This is my third build and so far have attached the rudder assembly, decking supports, as well as cutting out the drain holes on the rear deck area
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buiding a tug from a fleet tender kit spring madness ?
this is a short blog about building a tug from a fleet tender kit that was given to my brother, it was not a complete kit and there were no drawings with it, so he took a look into the box and gave it to me saying go on then make a tug out …
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The Katra a Thames craft tug
… asked by an old friend of mine who is a total J P Knight 's tug fan if I could make the katra on an old JOFFRE TUG HULL on checking the size of the hull it worked out to exactly 1/24th scale 1/2" to the foot for the Katra , so here we go on …
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Trial and Tug
… essed a bit further. No Ark Springer this time as the inner Tug boat seems to have emerged! Chris
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Ocean going tug project
… f you wanting to know a bit more it's a "Ocean going anchor tug" no name just a freelance model from a couple of photo's. I'm a memeber of the "Springfield lakes maritine modellers" in Brisbane, Australia and we have compatitions in tug pul …
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PNW log tug
Below deck structural work continues.Most of propulsion work has been completed.
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Forceful paddle tug- Hawse pipe deck casting
Decided to make my own hawse pipe using 1/8” x 1/2” Brass flat bar which I drilled at 30° on the milling machine this angle gives the correct chain path. Then a Brass tube was turned out of 8mm brass bar with 7mm locating spigot. Both Compo …
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Forceful paddle tug - Hull work before painting
A few items that require sorting before I start paint the hull. The hull has had its first cosmetic filling of joints and sanding to see any further imperfections. So started work on the following items that need a first fix or permanent in …
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Forceful Paddle Tug – Navigation Light Conduit & Installation Update
Work has continued on the navigation lights for Forceful, with a focus on long‑term reliability and ensuring the whole assembly can be painted cleanly before final installation. To achieve this, a miniature conduit system has been fabricate …
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Forceful Paddle Tug – Navigation Light Fabrication
Work has continued on the navigation lights for Forceful, with both the brass housings and the coloured lenses now fully machined and prepared for illumination. The lantern bodies are built from 1.2 mm brass sheet combined with ¼″ brass squ …
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Forceful paddle tug update
Following the installation and internal resin‑bonding of the paddle boxes, I’ve moved on to the next structural stage of the build. The sponsons have now been fully installed: first with an adjustable Isopon bedding layer to set the geometr …
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Forceful paddle tug update
I’ve now completed the main setup and bonding work on the paddle boxes, which marks a key structural stage in the build. With the upper‑deck position established, the paddle boxes were aligned, tacked, and then resin‑coated internally to lo …
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A Tail of two TID Tugs (Part two)
Hi One & All You see that I have called this part two, part one is under fredE11 it should have been under Fred, some how I started a new profile. This update is how they now look, I have placed one of the bottom stringers on the old TID Th …
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tow tug or not two tug that is the question
Hi One & All Well I have now got the new deck fitted along with replacing the motor. Next job it to clean the deck and fill any imperfections. Fred
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Two Tugs not two soups
Having a long hard look at the wheelhouse, and some talk with chat-gb that AI thing, it looks as if the wheelhouse was open in WW2, so that is how I am going to rebuild the wheelhouse, also the AI think has given me a chart of Portsmouth ha …
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A tail of two TID Tugs
I am calling this a rebuild as you will see later. Back in the early 90s I was at one of the Greenwich model boat shows, one of the Stands there was Marine Modeling International, were they had there plans at show prices, that was when I go …
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MODEL EXPO STEAM TUG "SEGUIN"
Ship’s Name The ship’s name is provided in the kit as a printed and laminated vinyl sticker. It should be applied to a thin substrate (I used a leftover piece of wood) before installing it on the hull. This gives it a bit more depth and a c …
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MODEL EXPO STEAM TUG "SEGUIN"
MAST, BOOM (DERRICKS) AND RIGGING: I usually taper the mast using a powered drill, checking it constantly against the blueprints as I go. Before starting, I wrap the end with masking tape so the drill chuck won’t leave any marks on the wood …