Smit Panther ASD Tug

elmer

Giant! One of the greatest work on this forum!

L i am

Supurb modelling of a great subject

axeonalias

Thanks guys, trying to keep the pace up on this one but man there is alot to make! my guess is this is going to be around 150 - 200 Hours before completion!

Alot of the time has been spent on the interior which will only be shown when its looking semi decent, Work has started on the superstructure and those crazy exhausts! Fore and aft towing fairleads are complete along with the aft deck planking and hatches. Engine intake vents are shown as well, im not 100% sure how close to the deck they go at the moment as they are well hidden behine the aft towing winch, as soon as I can find some images or some reference I will adjust them if need be.

This is the new shaped azimuth drive ( shown above )

Currently 37 Hours 44 Minutes in

ntxdave

Really great work...………….

hellnbak

Tremendous modeling and attention to detail.

So what are you using for reference? I'm assuming you have something more than the two photos at the beginning of this post. Just curious.

Never mind, just Googled it and there seems to be a ton of reference material for this beauty.

Looking forward to seeing this project develop.

axeonalias

Thanks guys, hellnbak even with what seems to be so much reference out there you will be surprised how some areas are hidden, I really dont like taking guesses with anything,thats why many hours are spent doing research on every part, me and my research department ( Thanks babe ) have been searching like crazy for this 10 - 50 (or 150?) Ton Rolls Royce towing winch, and nothing but this low res image on a 226 page pdf on the Rolls Royce website:

Not sure why RR has it mirrored, its correctly fitted on my tug as the real one is.

What makes things even more tricky is many items have been added over the years that are not on the blueprints or on any of the marketing brochures, luckily they are small things.

Progress so far includes many details around the aft towing winch, the winch itself ( not happy with that rope texture, will still be spending some time there ) and details on the funnels

Currently 46 Hours 39 Minutes in

Mike Amos

Marvelous piece of work, rock on, Sir.

Bryan K

Excellent work! It's been a while since a ship model was posted around here!

axeonalias

Decided to get the Engines completed, im happy with the LOD for these, its tempting to just keep adding detail, but there comes a point where you just have to decide..

The turbo was Subdiv. and the rest was hard surface.Theres a bunch of Decals that will be added later, but I will do all of them at the same time.

Engine is currently at 35600 Polys.

Currently 50 Hours 09 Minutes in

Mike Amos

Brilliant, progressing just great.

axeonalias

Completed the working parts for the azimuth stern drive (ASD) and cleaned up the interior walls.

At the bow the area is raised to allow 2 stories, goes half way above the main diesel tanks and then single at the engine room.

Currently 51 Hours 46 Minutes in

axeonalias

Just Completed the Aft Deck Crane, its a Heila knuckle boom crane type HLM 10-2S
Was modeled in the extendet position and folded as shown, was really nice folding all the parts when the models were ready!

Ive uploaded the 3d for viewing here:

https://sketchfab.com/models/6330bcc92c66473abe4f755bd3083720

Currently 62 Hours 55 Minutes in

axeonalias

Left in the rain for a few years :

ntxdave

This is really looking great.

axeonalias

Completed the Mampaey 100 ton Towing Hook, added abit more weathering in the standalone model for effect, when on the tug it will be in better shape

The 3d can be viewed here :

https://sketchfab.com/models/e8c74db29fbb4f7db93f67f439738d17

Currently 66 Hours 05 Minutes in

axeonalias

Completed the Bow Towing Winch, I really wanted to take my time on this ( it took 6 Hours to complete ) as its the main part on the tug, heres a look at the real one :