Hi all, Hope you will check out my newest......... http://www.youtube.com/user/PuttPutt4video?feature=mhsn#p/a/u/1/h9kQCqqgWuI More fun,......Daryl....
I updated the Home Page Photo to show what Charles Clarke did in creating a fleet of "gift" tugs. It all started with a food tray and some imagination....
I am not planning to leave the group until an old guy with long whiskers and a scythe drags me off stage. In reply to Pete, the group already has three...
Hi All, I have demoted myself from co-owner to member for several reasons including old age and the death of my imac computer which has been replaced with an...
While reviewing Jean-Yves's diaphragm boiler plan, I was struck by one post-build photo that showed three birthday candle stubs under his boiler. Emulating...
I am building a pop-pop boat to resemble the one in Ponyo as a holiday gift to my daughter. I have scratchbuilt a boiler from a 1-5/8"-ish round copper pipe...
I just got off the phone with Old Old Frank. He ensures me that he is alive and kicking. [:)] I wasn't able to able to come up with a phone no. or a...
Hi all. If there's an FAQ on this, let me know. My daughters are nuts for Ponyo, and I look for any excuse to work with metal, so I'm building a pop-pop boat. ...
Needed a break from the infernal pop pops so I built an electric RC boat. Electrics and steering servo from an RC car and motor from a rechargeable vacuum...
I did some tinkering with a free cardstock CSS ALBEMARLE PLANS somebody had posted in the past. The deck shape in the plans is too small to use directly to...
Hi All, Another Home Page Picture has been posted to suggest the possibility for combining card stock paper models with wood hulls for support and unit pop-pop...
After downloading the freebie model of the 'CSS Palmetto State' and seeing the quality of the PDF set, I ended up buying a different ironclad for a test...
Today I was surfing the instant view movies on Netflix when I ran across 'Ponyo on the Cliff'. I had not been blessed with a viewing of Ponyo before. But I did...
I just found a site offering several more cardstock Ironclad models (no, not the usual ones). So I ordered the free-download of the 1/250 'CSS Palmetto State'....
After a couple of stiff drinks I got the courage to putt my very flammable wooden putt putt sailboat in the pond for a proper test. Hope you will watch the...
Recently I have been testing 6 similar engines in 9 different boats including a flat bottom barge in various combinations wondering if the rules of full size...
Just in case you haven't seen this yet http://www.instructables.com/id/Pop-pop-or-put-put-steamboat-made-easy-for-childre/ motleyjustmotleynothingbutmotley...
Hi All, In what will probably be a fruitless attempt to change the topic from WD40 or sources for Methanol, I am using Pete's Ark as a home page picture. It...
I read that a good way of keeping the boats in good condition (internally) is after use, give the boat a quick squirt of WD40 up one of the pipes. I did this...
Hi All, A new homepage picture shows a vintage stern wheel steamboat at one of the most dangerous places on Canada's wild Skeena River. For some interesting...
