STEAMBOAT MODELS, LIVE STEAM ENGINES AND PADDLE WHEELS... Bringing back to life, gauge 1 - 1/32scale, from scratch, live steam engine included, some of the finest ships: the side wheelers of the 1840-1910 era! Many hours go into building my metal paddle steamer models as accurately as I possibly can... so I will try to sail them the smooth, quite and graceful way steam ships did! No unrealistic "speedboat" style sailing with overly repeated whistle blows on choppy waters!
Peter Gardner
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Elaboration de plans + fabrication a-z modélisme naval RC façon maquette. Bateaux avec machine à vapeur vive au 1/32, entrainant les roues à aubes. Des heures de construction au plus fidèle possible... la suite va de soi: naviguer en essayant de recréer la majesté, le silence et la douceur caractéristique des vénérables vapeurs à aubes. Hors de question de les transformer en vedette ouvrant leur voie à coups de sifflet exagérément répétés sur un plan d'eau agité...
This model is far more than just a " live steam model boat " it is more of a live steam diorama, the incredible details, not only on the hull & figures, but also the steam engine that is not only functional, but in itself a accurate scale model of such an engine.... This work piece is of the highest museum quality and surpasses anything that is available in kit form....
Thank you for your interest and your kind comments! Doing everything possible to make this steamer look and work the way the real one did was definitely part of the fun! 🙏
@@LiveSteamPaddleWheelersPG Yes, it even has two boilers ( with return flues ! ) just like the real Thomas Powell... The first time I see two steam boilers in a live steam model boat.... The fitting of a second, oscillating cylinder on the paddle shaft - to overcome the death center of the Main steam cylinder when starting or reversing is ingenious as well....
Want to see more of this model and it's Walking Beam Engine? Click Link at end of this video for Playlist, or here for Engine under steam: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-AdmrYsE3U6o.html
Experienced Engineers! Read Article from Van Loon Ryder in description of this video: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-AdmrYsE3U6o.html Thanks for watching!🙏
Thank you! Many years ago, Pierre Stauffer edited a book "Bateaux du Leman", and Gwerder/ Liechti edited "Schifffahrt auf dem Genfersee" both books have plans (reduced) of this boat. You can sometimes find them on Ebay. I make my own drawings, these are not for sale. Thanks for watching!
Beautiful job on this boat. I've seen a lot of Steamboats out on Spreckels Lake in San Francisco but nothing that quite measures up to this. If you do another video on it, let's see some more of the mechanics at work. And maybe a description of the engine and a close-up of the mechanism operating the paddles. Great job
Thank you! I came many years ago (1994) to see Ferry "Eureka"...but not a single model sailing on Spreckels Lake... Every video I make has a short description. You can see it's engine here: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-AdmrYsE3U6o.html Thanks for watching!
I'm glad you appreciated it! A full size one would be amazing! ...but unfortunately would by far NOT conform to today's regulations... The very last "boilers on the guards" steamboats went extinct 100 years ago! Thank you for your comment!
Thank you, I'm glad you liked it! Not sure you can buy those anymore... I made this video, it has a written description with some info : Thomas Powell's "Preiser passengers" ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-0pCfzC6Juw8.html
@@LiveSteamPaddleWheelersPG Thank you. I now realized that I have one box, unpainted of those vintage figures, original from Preiser. I hope someday those passengers get to be on board to one of my model boat!:)
J'ai tenté de faire de la coque "nue" un "petit bateau intéressant" et suis donc content que le résultat plaise à certains! Merci pour le commentaire bien apprécié! 🙏
Exactly !👍 And also "come sorella" "Patria"! 😍 "Morgan" type eccentric was so good, it was mounted on nearly every side wheeler after 1870! Thanks for watching!
It's interesting that reverse was achieved by manual valve actuation, I wonder why they didn't use a reversing gear system, even if something like the Stephenson's sliding link wasn't viable due to the vertical position of the valve, a single eccentric reversing gear like a simple slip eccentric or Wolfe valve gear doesn't seem like it'd be a problem to do. I guess they didn't use reverse enough to warrant putting some extra engineering into it? I dunno, I certainly would've thought it'd be useful on a river boat.
I'm sure they did, at some point, try out different reversing gear systems during the 100+ years these engines where running! The starting bar operation was simple and efficient: once throttled off, and hooks lifted up, the engineer could swiftly and precisely swing the bar up or down, opening or closing the valves. This reactivity reduced the dangerous risk of locking up on dead center with the boat moving towards the pier. I don't think it was that much work: just one or two counter revolutions of the paddle wheels were necessary at the landings. Steamboats designed to "sail" astern had two sets of eccentrics and hooks (e.g. Ferry Eureka - San Francisco). Thank you for your interest, and thanks for watching!
@@LiveSteamPaddleWheelersPG Fair that to arrest the vessel as it slowly approaches the docks would likely only take a couple of cycles with the lever, but I imagine it'd be quite a bit more harrowing to need to perform an emergency stop from speed. Good point on the ability to avoid, or at least reduce the chance of, landing on a dead center with a single cylinder engine, though.
It's amazing the amount of details you make so intricately with a material such as metal that one might think is harder to work with than wood. How long have you been working with metal?
Weight is the main problem when building a functional side wheeler model made of metal! Since many centuries, almost anything could be done with metal! A 16th century pocket watch is a good example! "Unterwalden" was the first metal boat I started building in 1989!
That's a Hudson River steamboat song! (I love it!) It's name is "Francis Skiddy Polka", and was composed for the Captain of that boat, which appeared on the river in 1852! I'm currently "scratch building" a much earlier model, the steamboat "North America", as she first appeared on the Hudson River, back in 1839... nevertheless, I picked the song again for "part one"!
As an artist-builder who specialize in steamboats; especially the Hudson River and New England ones, I raise my glass to you on this fine build. Well deserved, sir.
