New here from Texas

[miniengine]

Hello.  I am Ray, username: miniengine.  Have radio control boats.  Have the Dumas Creole Queen 4 ft Stern Wheeler with electric motor.  Would like to put 2cyl steam engine in it.  Have built several steam engines and one IC engine.  Looking to gain more knowledge from this forum.  Ray

[Stuart Badger]

Welcome to the forum Ray!

We have knowledge of all kinds here and we love sharing it. Why not post some photos of your paddler?

When you want to post a querey or item just choose the appropriate heading and fire away!

Welcome

All the best

Stuart

[miniengine]

Here is my Creole Queen.  ray

[Tug--Kenny]

Hi Ray. Welcome to the club. There's plenty to read if you want to go back through the letters.

That's a very fine model of the Creole Queen. Does it sail ?  I would love to see some more pictures of her as I tried a typical craft like this and had difficulty with balance on the water.

ken

[miniengine]

Ken, here are a few of her in the water. ray

[Eddy Matthews]

Having owned a Creole Queen myself in the past, I can assure you that it sails superbly Ken - The only downside (as with all Dumas kits in my experience) is the aweful quality of the wood that they supply in the kit. Basically you throw it away and use something better!

Eddy

[miniengine]

And if you have the clear plastic windows installed, a light wind will slow her down or knock her off course if you don't have enough speed.  ray

[Hankwilliams]

Hi Ray,

if you want to convert your nice paddler to live steam, the 12/36 engine by Regner would be the right choice. There is a webside of Manfred Regner. His engines are not too expensive and its not very difficult, to alter it.
I used the 12/36 engine in a 142 cm sternwheeler. The engine needed some minor alterations (engine base, pitman and slide rod).  With a good flame tub boiler the boat runs powerful and faster than scale.

greetings

Thomas from South Germany

[Tug--Kenny]

That is certainly one nice boat, Ray. I have always fancied building one from scratch. She is really nice. I was aware of the heavy 'topside' problem and this has always caused me some doubt.

Now I have a band saw Eddy, I have all the wood off cuts a man could desire.   

How do I get a set of detailed plans please?

ken

[miniengine]

Plans and instructions can be obtained from www.dumasmodels.com.  Under plans and instructions fdor boats..It also says "Not suitable for scratch-building".  Years ago, I saw plans for building Stern Wheelers somewhere. (Don't remember where).  Creole Queen is 12 inches wide so tip-over is no problem.  ray  PS  Ken, I have a ,Jim Wilder Tug (electric and 35 pounds), Liberty Tug, Carol Moran and Scratch built tug (like the first but smaller)

[Talisman]

Hi Ken,
if it helps there are plans available here for a stern wheeler never seen the plans so no idea to their accuracy.
Regards,
Kim
http://www.myhobbystore.co.uk/product/16795/st-louis-belle-mm826

[PeeWee]

This company do a hull and plans for a 1/75 sternwheeler

http://translate.googleusercontent.com/translate_c?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&sl=de&tl=en&u=http://www.steinhagen-modelltechnik.de/index.htm&prev=_t&rurl=translate.google.co.uk&twu=1&usg=ALkJrhj5b8R-7stBct3nYaXNxS-t3Qat0g

Edit its not a stern wheeler

i keep looking at their 9ft Titanic

[Tug--Kenny]

Plans and instructions can be obtained from www.dumasmodels.com. 
 I have a ,Jim Wilder Tug (electric and 35 pounds),

Hi Ray,

The Dumas site didn't wok for me. All their 'click on subjects' sent me out into the web doing a search ?

I am at present scratch building a large lifeboat entirely out of wood, and having the time of my life.  The size is 5 foot by 2 foot wide, so should be quite stable.

I have built tugs, as you may gather and their build blogs are up on You Tube, under 'keyboardKen'

Kim,  Thanks for the info', I'll bear it in mind.
Cheers

Ken