robert e lee

Hi, this is a nice and motivating thread!

I, too, have started to build the Robert E. Lee, it will be interesting to compare both ships later on: two different persons, two different results! :-)

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bill , did you mean the under side of the deck , if so I didn't touch it , as it is not seen . the top side of the bottom two deck's , I painted MM tan , gloss coated it , and used a wash of , burnt umber oil , over the top . hope this helps .

man after my own heart capnmac

The VB is good--if you can get it.  Worth the trip to Austrailia, too

But, if you're having schweinehocken, or a jägerschnitzle, please, get a good octoberfest like Späten, or Hacker-Pshorr.  I'm getting set to stockpile Rahr, St. Arnold, and Shiner Oktoberfests to get me through the month.

try VB ,G ,

Oh FOYsters is horrible stuff. Just crap, like Shlitz.

Octoberfest starts this weekend.

Spaten for me, and pork hock!

Northside (Austin) Specs had KB Tooth in the big gold rolled steel textured cans a couple years ago when I was last in there.

If I understad it rightly, Foster & KB are a bit like a 40 of Peral or Lone Star would be considered here.  Drinkable, but not what you'd brag to out-of-towners about.

The Castlemaine was good, but the Victoria Bitter was better--but, I like a bitter if I can't get a porter, stout or a Bock.

And, to swerve this back on topic, a river boat probably ought to have a couple kegs of beer on board, if not wooden crates of bottles.

Well Then Cap'n Mac - 82 ;

 Have the Blighters get some or start giving your custom to someone who does have the " Right Stuff " . T.B.

the heathens , LOL .

Tank,

Odd thing, just checked the beer menu at the Flying Saucer in Austin--not a single Anzac brew on the list.

Tank, I don't know other than ebay & they are generally real good on old books. I do have a bunch of riverboat books. Our best friend ran a big library & could get me a lot of books I wanted. She got me  Way's Packet Directory , which is great.

  That Mississippi Steamboat book is the best for pictures. Bil Reed's book of frameable paintings is super. I have framed a lot of them. He painted all those pictures in the hotel bar in Marrietta Ohio. I got some things at the Howard Museum in Jeffersonville Ind. They built a couple of the R E Lee's there.  If you haven't been there it is the best riverboat museum. I will see if I can find the address for it. It has been 10 years since we were there. I do save everything tho.

Gene1 ;

  Hey guy , Do you have any idea where I can get those books ? They are out of print and the Library is having a Divil of a tyme findin them .  T.B.

Hi !

In your opinion , which is the absolute best to have available .  T.B.

CapnMac82 ;

 I am so sorry to burst your bubble . No I am NOT ! LOL.LOL.LOL. I do live a little further south than San Marcos . I live in the " Home " of Schlitterbahn .Yup , That's right  , New Braunfels ! Lotsa beer around here and not all Bud either .

 There is a Hotel here that serves , or did serve Fosters , Lately though I have had to stay centered on Samuel Adams .  T.B.

a carton in australia , hold's 24-30 cans or stubbies [ small bottle's 375mm ] , should see a bloke out for the evening . castlemaine , is the local queenslander's pub drop , foster's is victorian , tooth's is new south wale's ,

LoL.  Most I've ever seen was 4, all brought home in a suitcase (the people who clean forget FedEx is everywhere . .  .)

Tanker is down in San Marcos, Texas, about a 4 hour drive south of where I am, in the DFW "metroplex".   I've seen some Tiger (semi-NZ) both here and down to San Marcos (which is a bit of a toursit area with rivers and a pretty lakes and vinyards).    There's a snooty beer place in town with Speight's, but at US$10 the (us) pint, it's not something I've ordered.

I can get KB Tooth (which I like better than Foster's) locally.  Sometimes.  Had some Castlemaine at a snooty microbrew joint in Washington state, but, it was on someone else's dime.

a carton would be better capnmac LOL

And, Tanker, if you really like the bloke, get him a Victoria Bitter

Tanker, if I can do it so can you. I am dense on computers. If you can get on Google Photos with your pictures, left click the picture to enlarge it then right click it & left click again the  "copy message address" & go to Fine Scale & left click the mountain scene. Then right click in the top box & hit paste & done, & zip you have a picture. As long as you can tell right from left you are in bussiness.

Steve;

   I wish I could post those pictures too .I have never learned how to do it right . Now , what I will do is this .If I can find them I will make copies and send you , by post the " Edgewater Princess as she was when I last saw her . None of the build pictures survived the storm of Dec . 2-1982.

      I had delivered her on the Dec - 1 1982 during the " Grand Opening " of the convention center/hotel in Little Rock , Ark . T.B.

Steve, with the work you did on the Lee, you are in the upper class of model builder. It is a super nice job you did & the additions make it even way better, I love the smoke & the boxes & bales. A little model like that Western River doesn't take any tools except regular small tweezers, sanding sticks & the like. I don't have any power tools except an excellent Foredom cable drill. Never use a dremel much at all. I have had my drill for over 40 years. It is the most worthwhile tool you can buy. Using  a cable drill lets you do all kinds of work way easier.

   It is about all I use when I scratch build something. Using sheet & strip plastic make scratch building easy. I will get the info on Foredom drills, if they still make them. Everything I have is antique including me. 

I appreciate the pic's gene , I am so much in awe of bloke's like you who do this sort of work , and call it simple ,I really don't have the work area , or machinery to even attempt it , I might even add the skill too , I hope you keep posting your build's , as I am just so loving the work you do , I also wish T.B. would post a couple of pic's of his build's

big jake what's your first impression of the kit

steve5

Steve, Here are some of the pictures of the little sternwheeler that you might have a go at. I built this rough work nearly 40 years ago & it was still around. These were the plans & I had blown them up to HO scale. I built it with an added bottom hull in case I didn't put it on resin water.

2 super books, I have lots more.

Me at the Howard Steamboat Museum in Jeffersonville Ind. about 10 years ago. Not much of a picture but the boats were what I was after. Thats all for now but it's a start to scratch a simple riverboat.

I recieved the kit yesterday and (of course had to break the celophane - don't sleep well if I don't smell fresh sytrene at least once per day). I took a look at the box art and noticed that the stay are fixed under the second deck. I'm going to try and research as much as possible and get an answer for all on this.

Jake

Well.I guess that means a Foster Stout , Right aye ?

bigjake

I would have put some ring's under the rail's , if I had done some pre planning too mate ,I made my own as the kit one's were way too big .

T.B,

 what ever is brown and frothy my friend LOL .

Hi ;

   Actually , there were many ways to do this . If the ole river was normal , tying to the rails would've been a quicker expedient . However , the real fact is small rings mounted to stubs just inside the support stanchions were normally used .

    Remember this too .The modern boats are NOT historically 100% correct ,so looking there won't help . Either method will work . Now again I have to say , This is definitely worth a pint and some pleasant thinking about a job well done !     T.B.       What's the favorite brew for you blokes in Towoomba ?

steve5

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