The Model Tugboat – Mode Boat Book – By Chris Jackson

Thinking of building a large tug model? This second edition of Chris Jackson’s popular book will guide you through with a myriad of useful building and operating tips and ideas.Thinking of building a large tug model? This second edition of Chris’s popular book covers a variety of building methods – from building from kits to scratch-building, with projects covering an interesting range of subjects. These impressive models, always much admired, are major projects and need careful consideration. Contents: Chapter 1 – A Brief History of Tug and Towing By John Cox Chapter 2 – The ‘Herbert Ballam’ Ron Trimby takes advantage of a unique opportunity in scale modelling to build a modern Poole built tug Chapter 3 – Calderdraft’s Imara Peter Fisher builds and reviews the classic Caldercraft kit Chapter 4 – A Dry Towing Barge David Semper builds an interesting tug related r/c project Chapter 5 – Robbe’s Odin David Semper builds a tug and a half! Chapter 6 – Caldercraft’s HMT Resolve Brian Peach builds and reviews the Caldercraft kit Chapter 7 – Graupner’s Tito Neri John Cox builds Graupner’s kit of the Italian tug Chapter 8 – Mountfleet’s Cruiser John Cox reviews the Mountfleeet Models tug Chapter 9 – A Steam Powered T.I.D. Tug John Cox builds from the Marine Modelling plans Chapter 10 – The Wijsmuller Typhoon John Burr builds from a GRP bull moulding and plans Chapter 11 – Le Caux David Stone describes the way in which he builds up a model using the MMI plans Chapter 12 – Al Khubar Peter Fisher builds and reviews the popular Model Slipway kit Chapter 13 – Ship Docking Modules David Semper describes the building of two scale ‘Ship Docking Modules’ for model ‘Tug Towing’ duties Chapter 14 – Lady Lauren Jim Clark describes the building of this latest tug model