Hi - I am a new member from the wilds of Norfolk, England.  I have recently retired from my own business as a consulting electrical engineer and have returned to my hobby of building model boats.

I also have a keen interest in model steam engines and have combined these two to build live steam model ships with my own designs of steam plant in what are (generally) scratch-built ships.

One of particular interest to Paddleducks will be a much modified Graupner 'Glasgow' kit that has been changed to represent the paddle tug 'John H Amos'.  At present it is electrically powered whilst I complete the steam plant, but will shortly be re-built with a gas-fired vertical boiler of my own design to run a twin-cylinder, double-acting oscillating engine (also of my own design).  The engine is geared to a countershaft which drives a boiler feed pump to keep the boiler topped up during running from on-board water tanks.  The paddle shaft is chain driven from the countershaft.

I have pictures and video, but they are all too big to post - I will post when I figure out how to reduce the size!

Welcome to Paddleducks Phil, I'm sure your Glasgow conversion will be of great interest, and I'm looking forward to hearing more about it.

If you have real problems reducing the photos and video down to a reasonable size, you could always send them to me on a CD and I could post them for you.

I'm in England BTW, so no silly international shipping! Just let me know if you want to do that and I'll send you my address.

Please find attached a picture of my much-modified 'Glasgow'

Hello philbutton,wonderful job!!Great looking build,Walter

philbutton <introductions@paddleducks.co.uk> wrote:

QuotePlease find attached a picture of my modified 'Glasgow'





Attachments:
John H Amos

Post generated using Mail2Forum