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**Bunkerbarge** · 26-02-2008

Good on you Tiger, about time you got your feet wet and did some real modelling!

The bits were bought from a place called SHG Models. They have a web site that has been under construction for a long time now so you could try e-mailing them through it or getting hold of a phone number through BT.

Some people put the motors in the rear compartment making the shafts shorter but having another deck opening to worry about. I used 10" 4mm tubes with 12" 2mm shafts, so I had a realistic exposed shaft at the back end and this puts the motors under the tower. Always a danger of getting something wrapped round it externally but I have two! The brass props were also supplied by SHG as well as the couplings and motors, which are in fact servo motors. I didn't like the couplings as they were a bit of a naff plastic casting and off centre so I eventually changed them for a pair of the Robbe rubber tube type ones. They work brilliantly and are far smoother. The model is actually quite reliable nowadays and I enjoy watching her on the water but you are limited to calm days.

26-02-2008	#67 (permalink)
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: 3,751 Images: 230	Good on you Tiger, about time you got your feet wet and did some real modelling! The bits were bought from a place called SHG Models. They have a web site that has been under construction for a long time now so you could try e-mailing them through it or getting hold of a phone number through BT. Some people put the motors in the rear compartment making the shafts shorter but having another deck opening to worry about. I used 10" 4mm tubes with 12" 2mm shafts, so I had a realistic exposed shaft at the back end and this puts the motors under the tower. Always a danger of getting something wrapped round it externally but I have two! The brass props were also supplied by SHG as well as the couplings and motors, which are in fact servo motors. I didn't like the couplings as they were a bit of a naff plastic casting and off centre so I eventually changed them for a pair of the Robbe rubber tube type ones. They work brilliantly and are far smoother. The model is actually quite reliable nowadays and I enjoy watching her on the water but you are limited to calm days. __________________ “Dirty British coaster with a salt-caked smoke stack, Butting through the Channel in the mad March days"