I finally made a stand for it! Bit over the top but who cares? I can honestly say that this boat/tug or whatever it is, has been the most fun I have had in yonks.
To me, this is my idea of a what an old tug looks like. I am not a sea going person and I do not recall seeing one, and if I had of done it would of been when I did not really have an interest in boats of any kind.
It is all from scratch including the winch. Everything.
I do not know if the chimney is correct, or if there is a real-life tug or boat that in anyway resembles all or part of this but again, do I care?
The biggest headache I had was concerning the rudder. On the drawing (of which I have earlier mentioned the web site where I got it from), it showed the boat as a steam powered boat having a rudder on the transom. It was not until I had got quite a way through building it, that it dawned on me that I would have problems getting the rudder to work as it shows it connected to a tiller. I didn't want a tiller and after a few experiments, came up with cutting out a square at the rear of the deck and making a hatch hiding the servo which is connected to chains. Awkward to explain how its connected but I hope the pics will show how it is.
I will be making a winch for the fore-part of the boat for which I am going to try to incorporate one for the anchors. I will try to make this a working one but if I cannot, so be it.
I have a spare channel on my transmitter and if I can't do this, then I will try something else.
With any luck, I will hopefully have some spare time in the near future to complete more of the build. As some of you will know, I work in F1 and these past few months have been extremely hectic and at times, I have only been able to snatch a couple of hours at the most on the odd weekend to do any building. Now that our milkfloats cars are winging there way over to Australia and will be away from here for the next month or so, I hope to be able to do more.
Ron.