I have for some time now been building a model of the Diesel Tug Craig, from 1924. She was a wooden tug, built for the Craig Brothers Marine Railway Company, in Norfolk, Virginia.
The model will be totally scratch built. Having never made a fiberglass hull before, I found Craig in the Model Boats, Tug and Warship Special, which had a superb article by John Parker from Australia, to whom I am very grateful.
I had two basic criteria for this model. To learn skills never previously used and to do the whole thing on as tight a budget as possible as we are in the middle of a recession and spare cash is at a premium these days.
The first thing was to order the plans, drawn up by Mr. Parker and sold through
http://www.myhobbystore.com/This done, I obtained 3mm liteply, some polyester resin, matting and some balsa sheeting. That lot kept me busy for a while and the results are shown below.
When it comes to building some of the fittings I may well need plenty of advise....so stand by!