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Some not so good work hidden behind the outer skin the stern deck sides sanded and propultion removed rudder and stern more of the stern sanding reveals some cracks the bottom of the hull glued as was coming apart cracks grooved and filled with strips of wood ans wood glue

Thanks i will keep posting as its done yes there are some similarities Thats something i would really like to know i may send them some photos and see what they think, probably dont touch it leave it exactly as it is , it should be in a mueseum, ooops to late its the toblerone shape that comes to my mind to but maybe the builder just did something similar we may never know how it really looked The only thing about it being deep water would be it has a flat bottom which is not good for stability so i would have thought flat botttom only if you have to yes probably gunknowe loch near galasheils

Yes I am bending the topic slightly but as I see it a boat is a boat they come in all sizes ;-) Yes a mammod engine is possible I do have one and it would fit the only thing is fire and wood! I decided not to remove the the tin section as I probably couldn't re create it if something went wrong. I think the boat was made by a very creative person using whatever they found laying around.

Well this response I did not expect. First of all thank you to everyone who has responded I am more than grateful for any contribution. A lot of good suggestions but as I thought and many of you conclude it is probably just made to look like a some kind of barge but not one in particular. If you don't mind I would like to keep this thread updated with my progress for anyone interested. I have a few ideas for how I think I might like it to look and I will post these ideas very soon with the purpose of receiving your feed back and any alternate ideas. Just also to point out something I forgot about how well someone made this many years ago. The bow is made of tin or similar and has some rib details but I can't decide if it's from an old tin can as these have ribs on them already or if someone was very good at panel beating. I have already stripped the boat and am repairing some cracks. I will post photos of what I have done and also some of the power plant I have bought.

Hi i have joined this forum to ask if anyone can help me find out what this model boat should look like. In the past ive been mostly involved in sea going boats of the modern type. But always i have been involved with rc models including boats and the unusal always interests me, so when i found this in a second hand shop about 7yrs ago i had to buy it. i have ask many model boaters who have no idea or to be honest no interest, probably because its not shiney enough. Probably the model construction its self wont help you guys it being a model, but i will tell you a bit incase your interested as i am being an engineer. It apears home made and posssibly home designed but very well thought out. The quality of the wood is very poor, looks the type you might find say a pallet made from. It has a propellor shaft and propellor very nicely made probably comercially but not the type i can buy today. It also has a rudder which may be home made. There has been some thin wood sheet decking detail laid on top which looks comercial but could be a very well made DIY job. As the rudder does not appear to ever have been connect to anthing i would rule out it ever being radio control, i am thinking steam powered, set the rudder and go. It also has metal frames where maybe a tarpaulin would go or something like that, Any way i hope some one here could advise if it is based on a real barge / narrow boat and help with some deatails of what it would have been used for and how it should look. i will be convering this to electric and radio controll but would like the outside to look as did when it was made. i hope i am not intruding on your forum with this but thought this would be a good place to ask many thanks for taking your time to read this