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[ddraigmor]

Has anyone seen this?

What a beauty! It certainly puts RTR into a different leauge for tuggies, doesn't it?

Sigh - why can't they offer this in installments - at £600 it's a bit steep but oh, the thoughts....the thoughts...

http://www.cornwallmodelboats.co.uk/acatalog/graupner_rotterdam.html

Jonty

[Tug-Kenny RIP]

Mine came as a box of wood  ....  Might start it one day    sigh !!! 

Ken

[bigford]

same here kenny,but mine is missing 5 sheets of wood :(
waiting on billings for the replacement

[Tug-Kenny RIP]

Maybe I should get it out and check myself ??.  I assume you went by a list. I hope there is one.

ken

[Stavros]

Would not have one if you gave it to me it is the biggest piece of poo poo that ever sailed.One of our guys has bought one it is the most top heavy piece of garbage ever,if you fit both batts as reccomended and try a full power turn she could poss go over if there was a slight wind !!!!!!!!!!NO I do not jest.Water can enter the hull thru the stern rudder hatch,there is no provision for the water to get off the rear deck WHAT A XXXXX DESIGN Stavros

[Tug-Kenny RIP]

Sounds like my kind of boat.     

Seriously though, thanks for that Stavros.  When I get around to the build I will try to make amendments to the water clearance etc.


Cheers...Ken

[Tug-Kenny RIP]

Whoops.

I guess you are talking about the Graupner one   


PS.  Mine is the Billings one.

Ken

[bigford]

ken

   i bought mine from a hobby shop that bought out another shops stock.
so my rotterdam could have been used as a missing parts boat and was never
returned.. now i have it ::)

[cos918]

hi there i built the rotterdam billings.I photo copied every wooden part so i have a full set of templates.If i can find them i could send you some. Bit poor of graupner one even though its steep at £600+. Still half the fun building them thats lost in rtr

[Shipmate60]

Good Grief,
That makes the Prinz Eugen RTR look good value!!

Bob

[bigH]

 ???  Scuse my idiocy guys ,but if this is a RTR ?   whats all this talk about building it and wood patterns missing etc;  :(

[Robert Davies]

ddraigmor, stavros and shipmate60 are referring to the graupner artr, the rest are not.

-Rob

[bigH]

  Oh!  Thanks Rob

[westcoaster]

Interested to read Stavros's comments on this, I remembered that Model Boats did a review in the May 2007 edition. They didn't have much to say about handling.
In the same magazine I discovered the following gem - its on page 27 and is talking about a model of MFV 1174 - "the model is based on the full size (97ft) vessel"