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Mess Deck: General Section => Tugs and Towing => Topic started by: thamestug on June 28, 2014, 03:46:24 pm

Title: Warrior class tug Empire Wold
Post by: thamestug on June 28, 2014, 03:46:24 pm
Still under construction; scratch built on fibreglass hull.
Title: Re: Warrior class tug Empire Wold
Post by: radiojoe on June 28, 2014, 03:58:16 pm
very nice bit of scratch building there  :-)) :-))
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Post by: nickyb on July 22, 2014, 06:07:29 pm
Very nice and detailed, well done.
Title: Re: Warrior class tug Empire Wold
Post by: thamestug on July 23, 2014, 04:42:52 pm
thanks guys
a piccie of the finished tug afloat [photo by George Boyd] and a couple of detail shots
Title: Re: Warrior class tug Empire Wold
Post by: Brian60 on July 23, 2014, 05:29:37 pm
I really like this build the detailing is superb. My one reserve about it would be the water canon, would it have had one for this era? and if so would it have been painted red or grey as the rest of the fittings?
Title: Re: Warrior class tug Empire Wold
Post by: thamestug on July 23, 2014, 05:49:27 pm
Yes the water cannon or the monitor as they were then called were fitted in this era, [you can see it on the small plan taken from a similar tug in the Empire Tugs book] one still to be seen on the 1946 empire tug Cervia at Ramsgate, and the water main and monitor should really be grey but the crew have not got round to painting it yet!! Seriously I got a bit fed up with all the grey so left it red to lift the model abit [modellers licence??]
Title: Re: Warrior class tug Empire Wold
Post by: tugmad on July 23, 2014, 07:14:09 pm
Spot on Pierre  :-)) :-))   Thoroughly enjoyed last Wed morning, see you Sunday at our Open day.   Geo
Title: Re: Warrior class tug Empire Wold
Post by: thamestug on May 08, 2017, 02:29:39 pm
A fair while and several hard convoys have gone by since she last appeared on here!!
Title: Re: Warrior class tug Empire Wold
Post by: Brian60 on May 12, 2017, 08:48:41 am
Now she looks like a working tug! :-))