My R-C Model Boat Site

New addition to my Fleet! April 8, 2010

18/6/10

PT 596 has been updated with the latest info on its construction.

16/6/10.

I have just updated the sun tug build with info on the installation of the rudder and propeller shaft, along with the addition of yet another boat build, A Rhine pusher tug, so the site is getting more items to tempt you all with [I hope]. Please feel free to drop me a message, let me know your comments and ideas too.

I have just recieved delivery of my latest aquisition. Another tug, but this time its in real big kit version! Its a ”Sun XXI Tug”, made by a company called “Lesro models”, based here in the UK. No its not a “new kit” as such, Ive purchased it secondhand via ebay. It had belonged to a keen boat moddeler, but unfortunately has passed on before he got round to building this kit, So I managed to secure it for a reasonable price, so now in my collection so to speak.

the kit came virtually complete, barring for the build instructions were missing, presumed they were taken out to study and take notes from, but were lost somewhere. never mind, a short request note on the “modeltugforum.com” and a kind forum member, namely Bill Saunders has kindly photocopied his own set of instructions and posted them to me, fantastically arriving same day as the tug kit did, hows that for timing!

Bill also kindly has sent me a cd rom disc containing all the pictures he has taken of his own Sun Tug build [so far], so with his kind assistance, I should be able to construct this with ease.

So, you will find [yet another] blog page being inserted, so I can add/update the blog build for this tug too. I will be altering this boat a little, so if you look at the pictures below, you will see the B/W picture depicts a Sun tug with fire monitors, this is what mine will grow in to [hopefully].

Bill !, many thanks for your assistance, it is and will be greatly appreciated, I just hope your first sailing goes well and you suffer no problems.