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PS Mountaineer 1910

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birlinn:
Anyone know if drawings exist of Mountaineer, 1910?

birlinn:
I think that Mountaineer will now be superseded by Fusilier of 1888, as I have just spent £75 on "The Making of MacBrayne" by Andrew Clark. The end papers have quite good drawings of Fusilier.
My copier will enlarge by x 3.66, to get to 1:48 scale; with a lot of A4 paste ups, it don't half look big at 1282 mm long!
Even so, at that scale, I am going to have to lower the keel by about 25 mm to get the boiler in. In the water, you will not notice, and there are not many pics of paddlers out of the water. Could probably use a bit of extra displacement anyway- I will try and work out likely weights and displacements before committing.
I will probably be using Clevedon Steam's Virgo boiler and paddle engine.
 A long build ahead.....

birlinn:
Fusilier drawn up to 1:48; just ordered ply and stripwood at a cost of £144, so build now committed....
Should be first pics in a week or two.

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