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Re: Chicken Race on the Arumbaya
« Reply #180 on: August 17, 2011, 11:20:03 AM »
That is looking impressive, can't wait to see it finished.  ;D
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Re: Chicken Race on the Arumbaya
« Reply #181 on: August 18, 2011, 10:33:28 AM »
The hull is basically completed here are just some fittings which needs to be done fore and aft. Beautiful lines none the less, I think.

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Re: Chicken Race on the Arumbaya
« Reply #182 on: August 18, 2011, 10:52:00 PM »
I agree very nice lines :-* :-* :-*
Looks if it could float.

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Re: Chicken Race on the Arumbaya
« Reply #183 on: August 19, 2011, 07:23:56 AM »
Nice one, Peder!

And you can actually do it in wood :) Some tugboats were just pressed into service and then had some reinforcement to the hull and a stronger engine.
I do assume that it would be common in such a place as south america.

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Re: Chicken Race on the Arumbaya
« Reply #184 on: August 19, 2011, 08:00:30 AM »
Nice one, Peder!

And you can actually do it in wood :) Some tugboats were just pressed into service and then had some reinforcement to the hull and a stronger engine.
I do assume that it would be common in such a place as south america.


Thanks for the advice, Skander. Got any references?

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Re: Chicken Race on the Arumbaya
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Re: Chicken Race on the Arumbaya
« Reply #186 on: August 19, 2011, 08:22:54 AM »
It should be added that the pic is from 1898, and 30 years is quite many years.
However, there's a lot of wood in south america, and I assume that it's cheaper to maintain.
And, if you decide to keep the hull in wood (with added details to the prow, aft and other places that might be in need of extra support), you should build it in "kravall" ;)

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Re: Chicken Race on the Arumbaya
« Reply #187 on: August 19, 2011, 11:05:46 AM »
That's a beaut, Ag6x, thanks a heap! You know, she's not very much unlike my tuggie, perhaps a bit more narrow over the beam. The model I am building is of German built 1936 origin and was in traffic in the Bosporos.

Also, thanks Bezzo, one doesn't like to be too far of the mark, you know.

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Re: Chicken Race on the Arumbaya
« Reply #188 on: August 19, 2011, 11:41:37 AM »

This thread is certainly one of the most interesting/inspirational on this forum… and that say a lot giving the quality of work we see here on LAF 8)
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Re: Chicken Race on the Arumbaya
« Reply #189 on: August 19, 2011, 12:07:42 PM »
That's coming together nicely old bean  8)

My uncle (who's been modeling ships for nigh on 50 years) told me that there have been a few examples even in English waters of wooden hulled tug boats but most of them appear to be in private hands and are kept like that more for the love than the practicality  :)

Looking forward to seeing a lick of paint on her. Any paticular colours in mind?

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Re: Chicken Race on the Arumbaya
« Reply #190 on: August 19, 2011, 01:05:02 PM »
That's coming together nicely old bean  8)

My uncle (who's been modeling ships for nigh on 50 years) told me that there have been a few examples even in English waters of wooden hulled tug boats but most of them appear to be in private hands and are kept like that more for the love than the practicality  :)

Looking forward to seeing a lick of paint on her. Any particular colours in mind?

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Definitely a black hull, red below the waterline. Deck, natural wood. I just realized I need to plank the deck to if it is to be a wooden bargy. Superstructure, I don't know... yellow ochre, perhaps, with some white detailing? The 'Cacafuego' is dirty white, the motor barges are Navy grey, so something distinct but appropriate, I think. All heavily weathered of course, I want it to be a decrepit old thing.


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Re: Chicken Race on the Arumbaya
« Reply #191 on: August 19, 2011, 01:21:16 PM »
Anyone's got a good name for a tugboat? In Sweden they seem to be named after persons, Norse or Greek gods or animals. It doesn't have to be in Spanish, French, English, Portugese or Dutch will also do.

Do tugboats have name prefixes like other merchant ships? From Wikipedia:

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Merchant ships names are prefixed by which kind of vessel they are: MV = Motor Vessel, SS = Steam Ship, MT = Motor Tanker or Motor Tug Boat, MSV = Motor Stand-by Vessel, MY = Motor Yacht, RMS = Royal Mail Ship, RRS = Royal Research Ship, SV = Sailing Vessel (although these can be sub coded as type of sailing vessel).
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Re: Chicken Race on the Arumbaya
« Reply #192 on: August 19, 2011, 01:22:10 PM »
This thread is certainly one of the most interesting/inspirational on this forum… and that say a lot giving the quality of work we see here on LAF 8)

Thank you, one tries one's best. :)

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Re: Chicken Race on the Arumbaya
« Reply #193 on: August 19, 2011, 01:46:33 PM »
How about 'MT Herge' as a homage (sorry, can't do accents on my itouch).

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Re: Chicken Race on the Arumbaya
« Reply #194 on: August 19, 2011, 02:14:50 PM »
Lovely work on that boat! I always balk at proper planking and usually go for a simple shape covered in cardboard.

As for the name, you could pick a date that is somehow significant to you (I would suggest something positive!), and translate it into Spanish (although I don't quite recall for which faction the boat is supposed to be, and couldn't spot it quickly in the thread). So, say you started out this thread on the 24th of May, you could use this as a "Arumbayan National Holiday" and call the boat "Veinticuatro de Mayo".

Or does anyone know what the tugboat in "Tugboat Mickey", a Disney short from 1940, was called (if it had a name at all)? Always loved that one as a child, although the end is sooo sad. But that may be the olden-daye Disney geek speaking.

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