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[chum444]

Wicked cool!

[Umi_Ryuzuki]

I decided to add radars to both models.
Getting a bit carried away in the CAD work. 

[kalkurap]

Hello Umi, really like how it is turning out. I had watched tiver21's YouTube videos on this project but wasn't sure how reliable and practical this was going to be, but the fact that you are building your second one answers that question.


I tried to download the sketch-up file linked by him, however I have not been able to scale it down properly in sketch-up or output STL files are are good for printing. Would you be kind enough to share the files, I would love to build one myself.


Good luck with rest of the build.

[Umi_Ryuzuki]

Hi Kalrup,
The original files are 1/144 scale. I scaled each STL file up in the slicer, by 150%, so that
I could print the model out at 1/96 scale. The only issue I have run across is that the bow
of the tug, well, the "front falls off". It has come out truncated, short the last 6 or 7 millimeters.So I cement a 1/4" piece of material to the bow and cut, file and sand it to shape. But all the
scaling, for print size is done in the slicer programs.  will PM you

[Umi_Ryuzuki]

... Do you have a link to where you got the grears from? If not I will look it up, shouldn't be a problem to locate them.

Hi Kalrup,


The Motors are 22-26k rpm, but
has been substituted, as it is no longer available. FK-180PH-3542 DC 3.7V 5V 6V 22200RPM
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All the gears were 2mm shaft drilled and press fit onto 3/32" brass shaft.
The pinion on the motor was 18t and the pinion on the vertical shaft was 10t. 
.
The Crown Gears were 28t on top of the vertical shaft, and 20t on the propeller shaft.
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Propellers were from Cornwall Model Boats Raboesh C-type, 25mm 4blade propellers M2 shaft, Left and right hand.

[Umi_Ryuzuki]

The tug got it's first pond run. 
 
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[JaS]

so nice Umi

[steve mahoney]

Looks great!

[Umi_Ryuzuki]

Again, oops... 
Although, I shouldn't have to assemble this one.

[1967Brutus]

Since my job change from seafaring to more shore based, I happen to work on Damen 2810 ASD tugs, in fact the boats I actually work on were "born" with the Smit Logo on the funnel base.

You are missing a few conspicuous details on the aft deck: 2810 has chests on the aft deck, on port side containing the fuel bunker station, on starboard the lb oil filling, and slops discharge connections, and the transom contains two equipment boxes.
The hull fendering goes all the way around, and the rear rope guide is in reality a LOT more massive: Where your print shows a flared out piece of sheetmaterial where the rope goes through, the real thing is massively filled out on the outside made out of heavy duty tubing instead of flared sheetmetal (apologies if those descriptions are limping a bit, English is not my native language, and tugboats never were my field of expertise so I am less fluent in the jargon of tugboats than that of the seagoing tankers I spent 31 years on).

I had a pic of the ex Smit Hudson, with the rear rope guide and PS bunkerstation visible, but I seem somehow not able to upload it, sorry about that.
In 10 days I'll be on board of another 2810 again and able to take some pics. I'll try and post them if I have figured out how by then

[Umi_Ryuzuki]

I always feel like I am missing the deck chairs. 

[1967Brutus]

I always feel like I am missing the deck chairs. 

  Those too... but they are not Damen supply

Cool pics... Since March 1st this year that's my daily outlook on life... Different colours, identical boat.