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Definitions
By: Stoker Date: March 13, 2019, 7:25 pm
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I see nothing has happened on this board yet, but I suspect that
will soon change. Certainly somewhere down the road I'll have
something(s) to post up on here, but I must get to work on my
railroad first, so the boats will have to wait.
Meanwhile .... here's a bit of a teaser of things that will show
up here eventually, when I find the time to do a whole bunch of
rework on it. Almost useable as is, but not really "seaworthy"
for the waters I intend her for, so a complete makeover is in
store, and likely a whole new deck that is far more waterproof
and offers a better seal.
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Re: Definitions
By: jkbixby Date: March 13, 2019, 9:33 pm
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Quite a nice looking model - will be waiting patiently for you
to get time to upgrade it.........ought to be interesting.
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Re: Definitions
By: classixs Date: March 13, 2019, 11:21 pm
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[font=verdana]WOW...that sure is a beaut Daniel ![/font]
[font=verdana]Mind you, i might be biased by the fact that i
spent more than a decade on similar vessels, so tugs have a huge
place in my heart...as does its current home port.[/font]
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Re: Definitions
By: Stoker Date: March 14, 2019, 9:47 am
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[quote author=classixs link=topic=301.msg2267#msg2267
date=1552537311]
[font=verdana]WOW...that sure is a beaut Daniel ![/font]
[font=verdana]Mind you, i might be biased by the fact that i
spent more than a decade on similar vessels, so tugs have a huge
place in my heart...as does its current home port.[/font]
[/quote]
Sorry Jan .... but I'm afraid during the makeover there are
plans to change the home port as well, to something a bit more
local, like where I grew up and where I actually got the model
from originally ... the SF Bay.
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Re: Definitions
By: Stoker Date: March 14, 2019, 9:53 am
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[quote author=jkbixby link=topic=301.msg2253#msg2253
date=1552530799]
Quite a nice looking model - will be waiting patiently for you
to get time to upgrade it.........ought to be interesting.
[/quote]
Thanks for the kind words Larry.
I too am waiting, though none too patiently, to get after this
beast, but there are soooooo many other projects in line ahead,
and so little time it seems. But get to it I will .... some one
of these days!
There really are a rather large number of individual projects
that I will need to tackle to get this tug in the water again,
and some of them are quite major, but after the railroad is laid
down (needs building half a dozen turnouts minimum) and a few
more locos converted to R/C, then the tug should be next.
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Re: Definitions
By: IndianaRog Date: March 14, 2019, 11:42 am
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Holy Cow Daniel....that looks grand as it is, but perhaps it's
not seaworthy and you want to run it on the water. Either way,
gorgeous piece of work.
Rog
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Re: Definitions
By: Stoker Date: March 14, 2019, 12:12 pm
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[quote author=IndianaRog link=topic=301.msg2345#msg2345
date=1552581745]
Holy Cow Daniel....that looks grand as it is, but perhaps it's
not seaworthy and you want to run it on the water. Either way,
gorgeous piece of work.
Rog
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Actually Rog, it looks far better a few feet back, than it
actually is. I would say with just a little bit of work it would
be pond worthy again, as clearly it had been run extensively
before I got it. But the deck is a guaranteed sieve with totally
unsealed and fully exposed deck level hatches and no scuppers of
any kind, so any water coming over the rails will almost
instantly find its way below. I suppose it spent its operational
life on the shallow pond in Golden Gate Park in Frisco, so it
didn't need to worry about water coming over the rails. But I
have no such dedicated model "yacht" pond here, so it will have
to deal with the wind and waves of the deep mountain lakes that
are available to me, and thus needs to be made "Seaworthy" to a
new standard!
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Re: Definitions
By: St Paul Steam Date: March 15, 2019, 6:37 pm
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I had to agree with Roger, Daniel that is a super nice looking
tug,I understand about the other projects dilemma, I have many
on the back burner myself. please keep us all posted with your
latest goings-on 👍
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Re: Definitions
By: Mi Steam Date: March 15, 2019, 7:20 pm
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Great looking Tug boat and Welcome to the Forum.
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