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[steve mahoney]

Thanks Pierre. Great work on the Voith drives. You've made their construction seem simple. More photos please?

[steve mahoney]

Everything went together without too much drama. The funnel and crane painted in all black hides quite a bit of detail but at least I know it’s there. Easier to see it in real life than in these photos.

I’ll post a few pics over 2 posts so you can see how it all fits together.

The antennae will be the last things added. They are 0.2mm brass rod, and very easily bent – and almost impossible to unbend.

[Sylvain.P]

Great details, it's a pleasure to read your posts

[steve mahoney]

Thanks Sylvain.


Here are a few more photos of the superstructure so far.

[Mark T]

This has got to be one of the best tugs I have ever seen built.  Crikey Steve what a fabulous build 

[steve mahoney]

That's very kind of you to say, Mark – you silver-tongued devil. Praise from the sensei!

However all I see are my mistakes and shortcuts. Some of the builds on the forum are museum quality but my boats always turn out looking just like something I would make. I haven't really been satisfied with a model since the Christian Reinauer, about 15 years ago. I've been chasing my tail ever since.

I quite like some of my models but that's more for the look of the boat itself than the quality of my workmanship. There's a selection of my boats on the RCGroups.com blog under my name, a lot of them are pre Mayhem. https://www.rcgroups.com/forums/member.php?u=102411

You and BB keep raising the bar every week and I haven't really progressed, but I'll keep trying. One day...