Royal Navy Tow Tractor

[Fatboydim]

Royal Navy Tow Tractor.
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Thank for looking, Joe

Edited September 16, 2016 by Fatboydim
Photos did not appear, but thanks to Bill (Navy Bird) the problem was solved

[CedB]

Hi Joe. Someone else had problems with the mobile upload folder in PB. If I could copy a link to the post on my iPad I would! It's in the new home thread. HTH.

[Fatboydim]

Hello Ced, hope your well. It's nice to hear from you. Thank you for your help. I'll have a look see. Joe

[CedB]

Thanks Joe, all well here, thanks for asking. If you haven't found it yet the post is here.

[Fatboydim]

Thank you Ced, Navy Bird cracked it on the link below

 

[CedB]

Glad it's sorted Joe - now I can see your pictures...

Beautiful, just beautiful. Good job!  

[mcdonnell]

Hello,Joe - My compliments to you on a beautifully built and finished 'RN Tow Tractor'. A great addition to a diorama scene.I'd love to hook her up to my Phantom! All the very best,Paul.

[phildagreek]

That's very smart, like it!

[Fatboydim]

11 hours ago, CedB said:

Glad it's sorted Joe - now I can see your pictures...

Beautiful, just beautiful. Good job!  

Thank you Ced. It was just a quick build which I enjoyed making 

 

10 minutes ago, phildagreek said:

That's very smart, like it!

Many thanks phildagreek

 

27 minutes ago, mcdonnell said:

Hello,Joe - My compliments to you on a beautifully built and finished 'RN Tow Tractor'. A great addition to a diorama scene.I'd love to hook her up to my Phantom! All the very best,Paul.

Hi Paul, thank you.  Your Phantom would look good hooked up to a tow tractor. 

 

Mean while, as they would say on Blue Peter, here's one I made earlier. 

 

 

 

[Fatboydim]

 

This post was identical to the above post. Not sure now this happened, so I deleted it.

 

Edited September 17, 2016 by Fatboydim
Post appeared twice

[Mark4700]

Nice job, looks good on its own and makes an excellent addition to a diorama. 

[Reini78]

looks good, nice weathering

 

[Fatboydim]

1 hour ago, Mark4700 said:

Nice job, looks good on its own and makes an excellent addition to a diorama. 

Thank you Mark.

 

1 hour ago, Reini78 said:

looks good, nice weathering

 

Thanks Reini. 

[jrlx]

Hi Joe,

 

Very well done 

 

The picture with the skyraider looks superb and very realistic!

 

Cheers 

 

Jaime

[bzn20]

That's great. Love the dio too. Who made the tractor? The real one I mean, not model! Douglas ?

[Fatboydim]

4 hours ago, jrlx said:

Hi Joe,

 

Very well done 

 

The picture with the skyraider looks superb and very realistic!

 

Cheers 

 

Jaime

Thank you Jaime, glad you like it.

 

1 hour ago, bzn20 said:

That's great. Love the dio too. Who made the tractor? The real one I mean, not model! Douglas ?

Thank you bnz20, I think the manufacturer was Vickers. Below is some information I was told by an ex Royal Navy Naval Airman called Chris (Roof Rat) who is on this site.  

 

Introduced early to mid 1960's. The Tow Tractors were all wheel drive and all wheel steer. Fully automatic, stick forward to go forward, stick back for backwards. It had the same engine as a London bus. This kit represents a later model, which was lighter than the earlier models. The earlier models were heaver due to the aircraft that were towed around the flight deck of the Royal Navy carriers. The early models towed Phantoms and Buccaneers, the later models towed the much lighter Harrier and rotary wing aircraft. Post Falklands, the tractors were painted green. 

[71chally]

Lovely build there, first one I've seen of the Skunkworks one, they are really great value for money as well.

Yours represents one of the later ones with the demineralised water tank and hose for supporting Sea Harriers

[Fatboydim]

8 minutes ago, 71chally said:

Lovely build there, first one I've seen of the Skunkworks one, they are really great value for money as well.

Yours represents one of the later ones with the demineralised water tank and hose for supporting Sea Harriers

Thank you 71chally. Your right, it is one of the late ones. I think they might have been lighter in weight as well. As for value for money, there was two in the box for £13.99 which can't be bad. 

[71chally]

I think the weight could be added and removed as needed.  Has other clever features like being able to move the tow hitch along its width, I know that they can tow a Boeing 767, they are powerful little brutes.

 

Vickers Royal Navy deck tractor by James Thomas, on Flickr

 

I have reasonable access to two of these if you ever need pics, judging by your build you don't!

 

The kit has been on sale for £10, at £5 a tractor that's very good value!

[phildagreek]

It looks even better parked up next to an aircraft, it's screaming out for a handler to be asleep / sulking on it. Good job.

[Mountain goat]

Nice looking tractor - great weathering!

 

Jay

[Mancunian airman]

In the right setting, that could easily be mistaken for the real thing as I think the paint job, weathering is absolutely spot-on.

 

Those diorama pics are also in a well composition with those aircraft  . . .

[Fatboydim]

On 18 September 2016 at 9:19 AM, 71chally said:

I think the weight could be added and removed as needed.  Has other clever features like being able to move the tow hitch along its width, I know that they can tow a Boeing 767, they are powerful little brutes.

 

Vickers Royal Navy deck tractor by James Thomas, on Flickr

 

I have reasonable access to two of these if you ever need pics, judging by your build you don't!

 

The kit has been on sale for £10, at £5 a tractor that's very good value!

Thank you 71chally, that's a great photo with some good ideas for a few extras

 

On 18 September 2016 at 9:41 PM, phildagreek said:

It looks even better parked up next to an aircraft, it's screaming out for a handler to be asleep / sulking on it. Good job.

Thanks phidagreek, I like the idea of the deck handler getting his head down.

 

On 19 September 2016 at 4:13 PM, Mountain goat said:

Nice looking tractor - great weathering!

 

Jay

Thank you Jay, glad you like it. 

 

On 19 September 2016 at 4:44 PM, Mancunian airman said:

In the right setting, that could easily be mistaken for the real thing as I think the paint job, weathering is absolutely spot-on.

 

Those diorama pics are also in a well composition with those aircraft  . . .

Thank you Mancunian airman. It's a bit if a mish mash. A Skyraider the Navy never had, a tow tractor that was used for Harriers, on a deck of a light fleet carrier. 

[Mike]

Nice job Joe - well done

[Fatboydim]

3 hours ago, Mike said:

Nice job Joe - well done

Thank you Mike, kind of you to say