wetting you appetite...

[Eddy Matthews]

It seems that quite a few of our members are either building a paddler, or will be starting shortly. So we seem to be getting our message across! :-)

Just to wet your appetite on the builds that are either in progress or will be coming shortly, here's the ones I know about - If I've missed anyone I apologise!

Tony Mattson (khephre) - Jean quarterhweeler american towboat

David Allinson - PT Scotia. This ones been on "hold" for a while, but David hopes to get back to it soon.

Eric West - Still deciding which boat to build, but it will definately be a paddler!

Jim Beattie (red_hamish) - Tipstaff paddle tug. His first paddler which is coming along nicely.

Eddy Matthews - Finishing the Suter sternwheel towboat, then it will be onto the Glen Sannox the most attractive paddler ever built!

Ian Hughes - Princess Elizabeth paddle minesweeper. The model is built, but still needs it drive system and RC gear sorting.

Mick (mjt60a) - Freshwater, the model is getting close to being finished and Mick has posted lots of info as he's progressed with the build.


So lots of interesting stuff is in the pipeline - Anyone else about to embark on a paddler and want to tell us a bit about it?

[derekwarner_decoy]

goodness Eddie - :cry:  I know my PS Decoy is the longest build time project since Paddleducks was created, but this weekend I hope to work on the paddle wheels & complete the final quarter deck re-planking - Derek  :wink:

[Eddy Matthews]

I thought you'd either completed it or abandoned it it's been so long Derek! :-)

I just knew I'd forget someone, and your probably not the only one I've forgotten!

[Eddy Matthews]

And our newest member John Archibald (Auld Salt), is planning on building the "Lulonga", an African quarterwheeler..... The list just gets bigger and bigger! :-)

[towboatjoe]

I've got one that's been sitting on the side for a while. I do have the hull and main deck cabins laid up. It's a 450 foot side wheeled steamer named White Swan that was contracted to Ward Engineering in Charleston, West Virginia, but the order was cancelled and the vessel was never built. At 1:87 scale the hull is about 62 1/2 inches long. Here's an artists painting of what was to be the largest river steamer ever built.

[Waverley]

Hi Joe

A quick look in google found a lot of pubs called the "White Swan" but no reference to your beauty.

I assume this Charleston is on the Ohio River and she was intended for trade on the Mississippi and/or tributaries. Are you able to provide any details, like, for example, when and why the order was placed/cancelled?

Regards

David

[Khephre]

Eddy and co.,

I have to confess to another paddle project as well. Some time back I started a 1:32 scale version of the paddle tug "Reliant". That was shelved about a year ago while I built a ship assist tug and barge for my boy.

It's only been in the last few weeks that I've pulled Reliant out of the cupboard, dusted her off and restarted the build.

Will post a few shots in the next day or so.

Oh yeah, then there's Britannia. I've gotten a ways into drafting her lines from the various photos and am now tossing up which way to build the hull - very tempted to try fibreglassing over a shaped foam core then melting the foam out with solvents. Haven't tried that approach in the past but one of my clubmates has just completed a 6ft 9 inch model of the Shaw Saville and Albion liner Northern Star and built the hull that way - said it was a breeze.

So a couple or three paddle projects either in progress or in plans (and need a bigger workshop)!

Tony

[thewharfonline]

And me, Sean, is currently working on my miniature kit model (nippon maru...soon to be renamed!) Not to mention I'd like to start work on building the Alexander Arbuthnot- the last commercial boat built on the Murray, I've taken quite a fancy to it recently. I think I'll make it static as it's probably easiest for me to do, with maybe a small bit of electronic work to make the wheels go round and the lights go on!

[Peter Webster]

Eddy and the rest,
                           My Captain Sturt is coming along and I am finally starting on the drive system. I am deciding between a 550 and a pulley and belt drive via an esc , probably an Msonic type, or using a Como Drills motor and gearbox with the esc. The system will run on 12v and via pitman arms to the sternwheel. The model is 4ft. long and I am also starting on the smoke system as the sound system is already up and running, tape recorder via old computer speaker system amplifier.
Peter Webster :-)

[Eddy Matthews]

Eddy and the rest,
                           My Captain Sturt is coming along and I am finally starting on the drive system. I am deciding between a 550 and a pulley and belt drive via an esc , probably an Msonic type, or using a Como Drills motor and gearbox with the esc. The system will run on 12v and via pitman arms to the sternwheel. The model is 4ft. long and I am also starting on the smoke system as the sound system is already up and running, tape recorder via old computer speaker system amplifier.
Peter Webster :-)

Thanks for the update Peter - I have to admit that I'd forgotten about your model of the Capt Sturt, so my apologies for that!

Any chance of some more pics to show your progress so far?

[towboatjoe]

David,
Charleston is located in the heart of West Virginia and is the capital city for that state. It is absoutely beautiful in that area with several old sternwheelers that most are live aboards. Charleston sits on the Kanawha River that flows North into the ohio River.

Here's a link to John Fryant's page with info on the White Swan.
http://modelplans.steamboats.org/p12-white-swan.html

[Walter Snowdon]

Hi all, I like this list idea, it means that if anyone is building a similiar model you can do some brain picking and problem solving, so here goes... My building has been pretty much at a standstill for about 4years due to ongoing family problems and I feel a bit guilty about being all talk and no action! Heres my list.
BOURNEMOUTH QUEEN 48th scale sidewheel excursion ship now about 15 years old and almost completed a full rebuild.
PS MELISSA. an open sidewheel launch built for use on the River Hoogli.
Powered by a Wilesco twin steam, engine. 34" long
 PS BOHEMIA a Czech kit of an early sidewheeler. Recently started.33 " long.
 PS MAID OF THE LOCH. An experiment in gum strip hull building- the hull only done so far, very light and strong. 43" long.
 PS QUEEN based on a PBM kit Given to a friend last year.
 PS CITY OF BRISTOL. Early sidewheel schooner rigged packet built for service between Bristol and Ireland (1832) lost in 1839? near Worms head, no survivors. (at low tide you can walk out to her engines which still stand about 6 foot proud of the sand after nearly 165 years!)
 Model is 70% complete. 43"long.
well thats it for now. Cheers, Walter.