Showing posts with label Lindberg Tugboat. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Lindberg Tugboat. Show all posts
Friday, October 02, 2020

Lindberg Tugboat in Model Boats magazine

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OK, it's not a proper write up, if you want to know how I built a tugboat from a Lindberg Kit, you can read all about it on this blog , ...
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Tuesday, August 25, 2020

Lindberg Tugboat - all done

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     For the final shots of the tugboat, I wanted to sit it on some brown water. The obvious choice would be the model boat club, but we...
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Monday, August 24, 2020

Finishing touches to the tugboat

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    After testing on the water, I found a couple of little tweaks I wanted to make to the tugboat . First, every time the superstructure wob...
Tuesday, August 18, 2020

Back on the water

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      On a nice, sunny, calm day,  I took the tugboat to our pool (don't get excited, you've probably got inflatable paddling pools ...
Monday, August 17, 2020

All the bits are finally painted

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Updates on the tugboat have been thin because I've been painting all the detail parts, and that's not very exciting, even for this b...
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Tuesday, August 11, 2020

The perils of a 2nd hand kit

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"Bollards", I said as I scrabbled in the bottom of the box looking for the the final parts to complete the model. The trouble with...
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Monday, August 10, 2020

Boat crew

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I don't like putting photos of model figures on the blog - they never look as good as in real life. However, they are part of the build,...
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Monday, August 03, 2020

Red lines

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Lindberg's box art suggests the lower portion of the superstructure should be painted red. If I was any good at masking things, this wou...
Monday, July 20, 2020

Hull painting

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Look at that moulding line! Time for proper traditional plastic kit modelling with a sanding session lasting an hour turning the top rail fr...
Tuesday, July 14, 2020

Superstructure part 1

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Working on the tugboat superstructure is a proper old-skool plastic kit building experience.  Part fit isn't bad, but modern kits are so...
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Monday, July 13, 2020

Sailing, not sinking

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Back on the pool and this time the boat keeps the wet stuff on the correct side of the hull.  I forgot to take some lead with me to balance ...
Tuesday, July 07, 2020

Stopping the water

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Working out how the water was getting in to the hull didn't take a lot of thought. As I examined the join line between the two halves, I...
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Tuesday, June 30, 2020

On a bed of Milliput

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A gutted servo isn't the easiest thing to mount in a model boat hull. Admittedly, I could have removed the motor from the control board,...
Monday, June 29, 2020

Waggle that rudder

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Not confident my servo setup would work, I put the motor in a blob of Blu-Tack, bent up the connecting wire and tested the set-up. And it wo...
Monday, June 22, 2020

Fiddly steering linkage

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Lindberg didn't design their kit to have working steering. The rudder clips into place, you set it at an angle to bring the boat back to...
Tuesday, June 16, 2020

Will the prop fit?

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Digging around the box of boat spares, I've found a nice stainless steel prop setup to which I can fit a nice plastic prop. Placing it o...
Monday, June 15, 2020

Lindberg Line Tug Boat kit

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I'm still keen to build a model boat and so it's back to the kit stash to find something I bought a couple of years ago at the IPMS ...