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[peteski]

Wow John! That is some amazing work!

[Lemosteam]

That keystone stack idea is great.

@Ed Kapuscinski Per prototype:


@peteski , thanks! Having lots of fun with this boat! I miss Pete Nolan.
 

[packers#1]

Looks good so far! One question; are you going to flip the left (port?) intake to face the front of the tug like the prototype has them, or keep both pointing to the rear?

[Lemosteam]

@packers#1 , I was going to but they interfere with the stack base if I swing one foreward. In a different picture of the same boat, they are clocked differently than the pic above, so that leads me to believe that they could swing as needed. I kinda like the symmetry that I have.

What I cannot figure out are the two tents on deck; one at the rear port side, and the other, port side ahead of the stack. Any ideas? Food stores? Tools? Strange place for tents. Can’t 8magine they were for the crew.

[mkearns]

I can’t say with certainty, but from my seagoing days we had a few things covered with marine canvas. So not quite a “tent” but canvas coverings of various boxes, fittings, etc is somewhat common. If I recall correctly, our box of nautical signal flags near our mast (not a sailing mast but more of a light and radio mast on diesel ship) had a canvas cover.

[Lemosteam]

The LIRR tugboat is progressing further. Last week I designed a slightly smaller lifeboat and printed it. I painted one white, so the contrast between its hull and the tarp could be seen well. I also added the lifeboat hoist arms and some simulated pulley rigging to connect to the bow and stern of the lifeboat. I am almost ready to paint this model, after adding resin print to the groove around the rim of the deck rail and using the curing machine, (thick black line around the tug). This is to get it to look more like the proto, which blends down from the railing to the top bump rail.

Here’s the latest pics:

[Lemosteam]

Restarted the tugboat work with PRR Tuscan paint and some interior paint and details. A captain and first mate and some LEDs, outer nav colors and an interior light. I am going to stay proto color on the lifeboat. Added the LIRR heralds to the stack and weathered the spark arrestor screen and the upper stack. Can’t wait to light this tugboat, just got to dim the crap out of the green and red LEDs so they don’t blind me. Just have to glue it together after adding glass, wire it up and add remaining details with a few deck hands. 

[Lemosteam]

The LIRR tug is all assembled, LED’s installed, waiting for resistors, power, and testing. Needs more details, weathering and a deck crew. 

[Lemosteam]

LIRR tugboat electronics is finally finished and lit up with my trusty 3v tester. The layout has a touch mor voltage, so I think I’ll add a resistor to the forward white nav light to dim it a bit. The starboard and port lights too some resistor finagling, but I like their brightness. Cabin looks cool with the captain and first mate barely glowing.

Super happy with it!

Details, more weathering and deck crew next.













Also working on more excavator shovels, in particular one with its shovel raised and rode up the ramp and making its way onto the new flat for transport back to the aggregate yard.

[Ed Kapuscinski]

I love that tugboat!

[Lemosteam]

@Ed Kapuscinski, thanks for the compliment.

Tugboat is finally finished. Added a life ring, lower cabin windows, some Liquitex gloss medium water to the boat, and dolled up some brass handles, whistle, front ladder and spotlight pivot with a paint pen. 

Crew on board and ready to head out after dropping off a barge full of scrap cars behind her.









Nav lights are on now for the dusk launch.

[chessie system fan]

My favorite part of the build is that  perfectly domed smoke stack screen. How in the world did you do that?

I'm not a tugboat person,  but would the deck be wooden for its anti-slip properties?  Or would they have just used paint with grit in it?

[Lemosteam]

@chessie system fan , thanks.  I have no idea about the deck but the gritty paint would make sense, instead of a clear coated wood.

As for the screen, it was a small leftover piece of screen used for my chain link fence used to surround the substation,  many posts above this one. I used the spherical end of a plastic paintbrush and pushed it into the stack to form it, then trimmed it, then pushed it up to the projection above the stack that I wanted and ca’d it in place. It is the only LIRR tug with that detail. Later pics of the same craft do not have it.

[MK]

Maybe I missed it further up but why the monochrome color?

[dougnelson]

John:
Very nice work on the tug. I believe that the stack and hull should be black. I believe that the decks were painted steel. They must have mixed sand into the deck paint for traction. You may inspire me to work on mine.
Doug.