Teign C
Another winter build just requiring a few bits and pieces.
Anyone familiar with my home port of Teignmouth,S Devon, will probably have noticed a diminutive bed- levelling dredger operating regular in the outer channel. This is Teign C, a Damen 14 metre STAN utility,tug/ dredger.
Last summer,I acquired an old Graupner 14 inch Pollox tug hull fitted with new motor and hardware which with a little mod. to the bow ,formed an ideal basis for a 1:32 scale version of Teign C.
There are plenty of pix of the real craft on t’internet, so I made a start. The thin plastic moulded hull was strengthened with Plasticard, and the wheel house also made of the same material.
The ‘plough’ was a plastic battery box from an old RTR boat, and the model is fitted with a rock crawler winch so the dredge can be raised or lowered as required.
Some minor painting etc and ready for March trials!
Anyone familiar with my home port of Teignmouth,S Devon, will probably have noticed a diminutive bed- levelling dredger operating regular in the outer channel. This is Teign C, a Damen 14 metre STAN utility,tug/ dredger.
Last summer,I acquired an old Graupner 14 inch Pollox tug hull fitted with new motor and hardware which with a little mod. to the bow ,formed an ideal basis for a 1:32 scale version of Teign C.
There are plenty of pix of the real craft on t’internet, so I made a start. The thin plastic moulded hull was strengthened with Plasticard, and the wheel house also made of the same material.
The ‘plough’ was a plastic battery box from an old RTR boat, and the model is fitted with a rock crawler winch so the dredge can be raised or lowered as required.
Some minor painting etc and ready for March trials!