10-20-2013, 02:43 AM
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Puddlejumper Wrote:I do not model boats but I truly enjoy looking at the posts of the members that do. I would like to build a PRR tugboat someday. DaveGidday Dave, Thanks for the welcome. I'm not sure I'd call my self a Boat modeler, but then that beggars the question, am I a model railroader ?? At the present I would be quite content to be known as a bloke who enjoys his hobby.
During the years when I only had time for armchair modeling, besides to be fairI didn't have a clue what I actually wanted to model, railway wise, I found the "operating" side of model railroading fascinated me along with the concept of "interchange". One of the methods of interchange was the car float and when I came more involved with these Good Folks, <!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://modeltrains.kiwi.nz/">http://modeltrains.kiwi.nz/</a><!-- m --> , and decided to build my own modules which would also double as my own home switching shelf layout, i started to investigate what was available, the Walthers car float, tug boat and apron being the most obvious. My problem is that I can be a difficult "so and so" at times and with a certain amount of cussedness, which is why I've had my nickname for virtually all my working life, want to do things completely different so when I found this photo, about 5 months ago, https://www.shorpy.com/node/14494, I was sold.
Now as I freelance a 1950s railroad very loosely on the Clinchfield , how I can plausibly explain a Detroit River Car Ferry service on my layout is why I wonder if I'm a model railroader,
and looking at model ship building books for modeling tips, the amazing work those guys turn out, well I'm just not in that class. 
Anyhow I've found on the interweb enough information and photos to draw up HO scale plans, which I is something thoroughly enjoy, actually when I found the dimensions of the Windsor on the quaintly named Bowling Green State University site I was pleased to find I that my guesstimation was only 8 feet out on length, though I won't say how far out I was in the beam. :oops: The build is progressing very slowly.
Ah well its all Good Fun.
Cheers, the Bear.
"One difference between pessimists and optimists is that while pessimists are more often right, optimists have far more fun."