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[Islander1951]

Worked for me.

Happy New Year to all.

[tugboyben]

great video tim it worked for me

jason

kirklees model boat club

[Sub driver]

just viewed it ok on my mobile phone too

[tugboyben]

pictures of HOVER TIM big hover craft from this morning

jason

[tugboyben]

some more pictures of tims hover craft

jason

kirklees model boat club

[Patrick Henry]

An absolutely superb post from beginning to end BB, one of the best I've seen on here. Congratulations on some beautiful pictures, and my congratulations to all the builders of those fine boats.

My favourite has  to be the little outboard dinghy, just because I have one practically identical to it...wonderful workmanship.


Here's my little dinghy...nowhere near as good, but I tried my best. It's just awaiting some fish boxes full of fish from Mark and it's about ready to go public.


Rich

[Bunkerbarge]

Thanks for the pictures Jason, great shots and good to see Tims new hovercraft model in operation.  Unfortunately I was all loaded up and ready to leave this morning and I got the car out of the drive which I'd cleared last night but I couldn't get it out of the road at the top of my drive, which was compacted and frozen snow.  After a few failed attempts the only option was to give up or risk dinting the car..........again!

As for the dinghy Rich, I really like these little workboat models which can look very effective with a little imagination.  Yours also looks the part and will be a lovely model on the water.  I've actually got about three or four outboards and a couple of wooden boats ready to have a go at one one day but it's about number ten on the list of unfinished projects at the moment!!

Thanks again Jason for keeping the thread going, in fact it's over to you now for three months!!

[hover tim]

Thanks for the pics Jason great shots by the way did you get any video of it

[tugboyben]

hi BB

sorry you did not make to the pond today I will do my best to keep the thread going i take it you are of back to work take care we will see you soon hope all the ice as gone by the time you get back

tim i have emailed you some more pictures

jason

 kirklees model boat club

[tugboyben]

hi all

still a bit of ice on are pond today so we add ago at pushing it about great fun on a sunday morning
a few pitures for you

jason

[tugboyben]

a few more

jason

[HS93 (RIP)]

wow nice pictures I always wanted to get a tug to Plane, 

nice boats though

Peter

[Martin (Admin)]

Tig Tug look great with those ridiculously oversized funnels .... must build one ... one day.... need a good bellowing smoke unit though!

[Patrick Henry]

Martin...no. Resist man...resist!


Rich

[jabba]

here's a couple i took same day.
  jabba.

[jabba]

more.

[jabba]

another.

[Bunkerbarge]

Great shots guys at last you could at least get the boats in the water again.  Looks like you had a bit of fun into the bargain.  As always the tugs look the part and make great shots.

I'm just finishing off some figures for the Joffre so she will be appropriately manned when you see her next time.  Never used acrylics for figures before but they are coming out OK so far.

[jabba]

a short vid of mini springer jumping out of water onto ice.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zJYMQXmJ530

 jabba.

[SteamboatPhil]

Springer jumping----great 

(wheres the vid of you getting it off the ice !)

[jabba]

had a big tree branch,to help get it back in the water.
 thanks jabba.

[jabba]

here's a short vid of my eldergarth towing my barge,onboard footage.

 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0iBZPSIalAk
 jabba.

[Bunkerbarge]

What with being very busy last time home and now back at work we haven't added a great deal to this thread for a few months but I promise I'll get laid down on the path again next time home.  The things I do for a picture.  In the meantime I've been sent a couple of other shots that we can add here to keep things going.

First up is a shot of the Kirklees Model Boat Club stand at the CADMA show in Doncaster.  Always a good display of models, as are all the other stands, and a testament to the hard work that always goes ito putting it all together.

Next is a model I haven't seen before and that is a Graupner Sidney Star.  I've always had a soft spot for "Box Boats" having spent a great number of years on them and although they can't be said to be attractive have always had an appeal to me.  I'd really like one day to scratch build one of the ships I sailed on in my early days at sea, but that is at the lower end of the project list.  I'm sure it would make Bryan Young smile though to hear me thinking of a scratch build model!

Another new model to the club froma new member is a paddler model still under construction but not a great deal left to do to her.  We seem to have quite a few paddlers nowadays and look quite impressive when a couple of them get together on the water at the same time.

We then have a couple of tug shots but unfortunately no information about them so if anyone recognises thier models please feel free to tell us a bit about them.

Finally an overview of the pond at Wilton Park.  I still consider us to be very lucky at Kirklees to have such a good facility and such a good relationship with the park, long may it continue.

[proteque]

cool stuff. I see you have a Aquacraft tugboat. What scale are those? they look pretty great and at a nice price!

[Bunkerbarge]

Which tugboat are you referring to?  The grey one is a scratchbuild from, I think, a Glynn Guest plan and I will ask a bit more about the maroon one when I next see it.