I have for sale my well built 1:24 scale 'civilianised' TID tug. It is built on a Kingston Mouldings grp hull and is fitted with a smoke effect unit which runs off tap water (instructions included). It will come complete apart from the 12v lead acid battery (which is the only ballast it needs) and the radio receiver. Requires one or two detail finishes to be done but all the bits and pieces are included plus highly detailed 1:24 drawings from Kingston Mouldings and Marine Modelling. I would point out that Robin Whitmarsh of Kingston Mouldings has retired and is no longer producing his superb hulls so this may be the last chance to acquire one of these tugs. More photos on request. Can not be shipped, collection only from my home address just west of King's Lynn.

Derek Bradley.

£295 ovno.

I have now decided that I will keep the TID. I have realised that at £150 I would be virtually giving it away.

I had an offer which, unfortunately for the prospective purchaser, I could not accept but it prompted me to add up what the boat had cost me in parts alone and a conservative estimate was well over £200, so I decided that I had to keep it. I was 85 last month so someone might be fortunate, eventually, to get it in my will. My model boating will carry on as long as possible.

Sorry to say, it is now sold.