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Re: Drawing coming along
This tug is about 3 hours from me. In Port Dover, Lake Erie, Ontario, Canada. I hope to get down there to see it and take some measurements. Note the bow in the photo; the tug is used to break ice in the river where Tiller Marine is located …
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Just another, Smit Nederland Build!
Well, The Tug Atlantic was a no go! So, I ordered the Tug Smit Nederland! This is going to be a nice build. I have many idea's in mind! I'm going to incorporate independent throttling! also independent smokers will be used as well! Her ligh …
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Weekend Buy
Nice pair of tugs, I have a joffre in my tug yard, but she is waiting for a drive train refit. Mine was given to me a few years ago and I tidied it up to take to shows. Whats the other one? Looks good and strong. Cheers Colin.
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Weekend Buy
… e is a Billing Boats 1:75 Scale "Smit Rotterdam Ocean Going Tug Boat". I am thinking of calling her "Smit London" will have to do some repaint on her. Fred
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Hull Painted
… at are recommend by Dean's, but they are going to be my new tug fleet colures. Fred
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Esc motor pairing.
… h integrated rudder mixer. As I'm doing with my Southampton tug. You can then use just one stick (and one thumb) to control both motors and rudder with motor assisted steering. Pirouette on the spot if you wish ️️ Other hand free to operate …
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Online shop - order / delivery/contact
… g to my archive! The pics sure weren't for me, I've got one tug, she's enough for me (Or one and a half, if you count my titchy 1:108 Revell Harbour Tug, ca 15cm) The site search function can't find your original post though Colin Seem to r …
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Online shop - order / delivery/contact
Hi Colin, The HAZLEGARTH sounds like a lovely tug! And she has some very good lines! I found some pics hope they help! Cheers, Ed PS. Will follow this Blog with interest!
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Online shop - order / delivery/contact
… ody was able to assist me with details or pictures. It is a tug called HAZLEGARTH, so when I saw these motors it gave me the inclination to do something about it. (MOTIVATION) I was looking for a home for my 12v 25ah sla , it sits nicely in …
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Snowy joins the crew
… ake a clay model of Tintin to join him as crew on my pusher Tug.. - then a friend suggested making a model of Snowy to join the crew. Here’s how I made him!
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Re: Refurb of Flower Class Corvette
… TB 30in, also a Fairly Huntsman 34in needs finishing, a Sun Tug 36in needs restoration part completed. A Bismarck battleship to upgrade, A Hydroplane (shrimp) to finish. Boats completed and not in Harbour A small vacuum moulded fishing boat …
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Balsa Shortage
… ill common also) so we'll always have something. My 80s 40" tug was carved from a poly block and completely glassed as an experiment, and came out quite well, was light and unsinkable. JB
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raf crash tender
… ite, you will also notice that there is a sea going wartime tug in the background. I new where the picture was taken because I have been round the fort. These pictures now tell me that the long nozle monitors were a later adition if what yo …
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Monterey
… th automotive spot putty, and sanded smooth. Like my Beaver Tugboat, the model felt lightweight when finished, so I added plaster of paris to the inside of the hull for additional weight.
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new project
… ome might not like this idea but i trying out 3d printing a tug ( 2nd pic is what it should look like )
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USS Diver
… She is shown, at anchor, with a friend USN ATF ( Auxiliary tug Fleet) in the back ground.
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Mayflower II Restoration
… er, no not my work. Picked it up in a market in Portimão Portugal JFF And a pic of Mayflower II before her refit. Cheers, Doug
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Onwards with the circuit description
… e inputs that we have extracted from the raw signals of the Tug, which actually gets us near to actually driving the motors.
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The real blog starts
… e in order to achieve the objective. In this case we have a Tug that manoeuvres worse than a slug. Windage is a disaster with little keel and a high non central superstructure. The obvious thing to do is to fit a rudder mixer so rudder oper …
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Re: Not quite in circles
… g to do is very different from my plan. But then so is your tug, at least as far as the electronics are concerned. Mine is a very old 40MHz version with no lights or other frills. So a complete refit is necessary. I looked at the combo RX/E …
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Not quite in circles
Well I had a short video showing the Tug wiggling its bottom in the bath. The bath is smaller than the Tug so it could not do a circle. But although I got it to less than 5MByte it looks like the site won't accept the video. Sorry. Can anyo …
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St Canute Billing Boats Build Update
… managed to proceed with some pace the build of my St Canute tug, please don’t look to closely at the stern! I replaced the planking with some carved and shaped balsa blocks. The one big problem l have now is some missing brass parts (2off) …
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History and progress
… es on from the Electronize thread and also from Southampton Tug/ smoke generators. A few folk would like an introduction to Electronics and this ESC project will hopefully serve as a foundation for that. Please go through the last few weeks …
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Simple Smoke Generator
… rate just a gentle waft of smoke suitable for a funnel on a tug or a quick pulse of thick smoke possibly suitable to simulate gunfire on a destroyer. For my Crash Tender I mix pulsed smoke with water using a venturi type connector and then …
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Richardson/Southampton Smoke Generator
Hi: Bear with me; I can’t see very well. I have the tug with the smoker. There’s no way to unplug the smoker or turn it off as supplied. You can disable it by cutting the two wires that power the smoke blower motor & the two that power the …
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Grain of Rice Build Challenge!
Hi Ed, Sorry it is not a tug but will this do ? Complete with two grain's of Rice. Martin555.
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Bought !
… id-172 https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:TID_172_(tugboat,_1946) No mention of her ever being named Ipswich! Poetic license on the part of the modeller Happy tugging Cheers, Doug
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"MARGE" Completed.
… besides a few swear words i have enjoyed making this little Tug. Now i must get back to working on U552 or HMS Cottesmore. Maybe! Martin555.