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Hi Everyone, I am going to show my sons Scratchbuilt TID Tug, its been on the go for quit some years, she is steam powered with a CHEDDER BOILER and a small steam plant.

It will be some time before he finishes it, but I will up date as the work progresses, I took all the photo,s today, so I will make a start.

The tug is being refurbished at the present time, and as I get photos of the progress I will post them. :thumbs_up

Hi Ron I have been away for two days so just catching up the posts. Anthony's Tid tug is just superb and to top it all it�s powered by real steam.
For those that perhaps are unaware Anthony is no stranger to model boats having gained a Silver medal at the �Model Engineering Exhibition� with his model of the Steam Coaster Moonlight, these awards are next to NAVIGA the very highest you can get in the modelling world. Anthony went on to publish his build in what is perhaps model ship buildings most respected journal the Model Shipwright. To put it bluntly Anthony Horribin is more than a chip of the old block he is one of the outstanding model builder I have come across and a real stickler for fine detail.


Dave Wooley

Thanks Dave, You may have noticed on the heading of Moonlight, built by Anthony R Horabin, this is the real ARH,

I have quit a few pictures to post, the build continues, he sent me 3 photo's yesterday of the grey undercoat thats been applied, and the extra plates added to the hull.

Hi Guys, Seen from the other side.

Hi Everyone, Here's some more photo's, The set up for the rudder servo and boiler, the steam engine and the boiler plant,

More photo's.

Anthony showing how you gain access to the hull, and the size of some of the fittings he has made.

Anthony is doing a great job .
Dave Wooley

He is your son, no doubt about it! .....


JIM B

Hello everyone,

I would just like to say thank you for your comments, especially Dave's regarding my model of the Moonlight. I have been building the TID since 2002 when I purchased the steam plant and hull. I was very lucky to contact another keen modeller, Alan Rose, who went out to the vessel, moored in Chatham to take lots of detail photographs so that I could start on the construction. Initally I completed the steam plant and basic superstructure before I had a long layoff. Over the last two years I have been building the fittings, wheelhouse and funnel. There is still a lot to do, each day I study the photo's and find something else to add to the list of things to do before it will be complete.

My girlfriend thinks it will be finished for Easter considering the progress I have made recently, but which Easter I am not quite sure..........

Anthony

Son of ARH

Hi Guys , some more photo's, you cannot have enough photo's.

Always cool to see miniature steam engines at work! Looking forward to her sailing

Hi Guys, A little more progress, the hull has had extra plates attached and been spray undercoated.

Anthony has not lost his touch , crisp paint job for sure .
Dave Wooley

Dave Wooley wrote:Anthony has not lost his touch , crisp paint job for sure .
Dave Wooley

Dave, The next photo's are of him sanding that spay job after he had drilled all the holes in the side's,
I will show them when I get then out of the camera.

Seeing as Dave posted the a picture of the Model Shipwright journal No.87 which contained the article of the SS Moonlight I built back in 1992 I thought I would include a link to the actual model in question detailing how I built it.

http://www.north-cheshire-marine.org.uk/mn.htm

Anthony

More photo's of the build, sand, sand , and more sanding, he does like to get it right,

He did not inherit his dad's mop of hair, all the motor cycle helmets he wears.

Hi Ron I will be looking forward to seeing Anthony's boat for real. Live steam is at a different level .
Dave Wooley

neat tug ron,very well done.it must run in the family.i remember many years ago i got a statioary steam engine for christmas it ran on a pellet of some kind i wished i still had it ,it would more than likly be a collectors item.

I still have the Mamod Steam Car and Traction engine I received for christmas presents about 35 years ago. They are as good as new. I remember the smell of the fuel tablets whilst waiting for the water to boil.

Anthony

I have to say, Anthony was braught up with toys like train sets, traction engins and cars in live steam, r/c cars and lorries, Leggo by the bucket full, got a suit case in the attic full, static aircraft, flying models rubber powered.

He got me into modelboats, wanted one for his birthday, built it intime, and he changed his mind and wanted a bycicle,

The Leggo is 38 years old, still in use, as you have seen in my shipbuilding.