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**Bunkerbarge** · 13-04-2007

Peter, firstly a warm welcome to the forum, it's nice to see another steamer amongst our ranks.

I'm not sure yet what a HS Tug is but I will have a look through my own resources and see if I can find anything. If you could post some pictures it would be a great help.

As for your superstructure, although glassing it will give it tremendous resilience it will be difficult to work and you will run the risk of loosing the sharp edges of the original wooden shape. As long as you do a good paint job on your model, with two or three coats of paint suitably rubbed down between coats, you should have a finish that is impervious to water and will last for many years. Glassing it is really making life dificult for yourself and you may well end up with a model that you are not as happy with.

I have put three coats of humbrol enamel on my steamer woodwork and it will get weathering and a clear flat coat to seal it which I am expecting to be suitably waterproof for the life of the model.

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Bunkerbarge Moderator Join Date: Jul 2005 Location: Halifax, Yorks: Nassau, Bahama's:Port Canaveral, USA: and all points in between. Real Name: Richard My Models: Robbe U-47, Deans Marine Cossack, Steam Coaster, Revell U-Boat, Motorcycles. Visit Bunkerbarge's Gallery Posts: 3,572 Images: 230	Peter, firstly a warm welcome to the forum, it's nice to see another steamer amongst our ranks. I'm not sure yet what a HS Tug is but I will have a look through my own resources and see if I can find anything. If you could post some pictures it would be a great help. As for your superstructure, although glassing it will give it tremendous resilience it will be difficult to work and you will run the risk of loosing the sharp edges of the original wooden shape. As long as you do a good paint job on your model, with two or three coats of paint suitably rubbed down between coats, you should have a finish that is impervious to water and will last for many years. Glassing it is really making life dificult for yourself and you may well end up with a model that you are not as happy with. I have put three coats of humbrol enamel on my steamer woodwork and it will get weathering and a clear flat coat to seal it which I am expecting to be suitably waterproof for the life of the model. __________________ “Dirty British coaster with a salt-caked smoke stack, Butting through the Channel in the mad March days"