This a recent acquisition its a wooden kit some radio gear inside but all rather dated the mid section seems well made the body shell has a few issues the port side forward has this kink in the wood work and a sharp edge at the bottom of the tip outer skin see photos its dimensions is 48 by12 seems a bit is missing is this just a scale up version of the 35 inch one by PRECEDEHT this a single motor version

with help from Neil I have been brave and gone with the forward paint striped off to reveal a horrible join between the forward upper strips and the the side sheet what I thought was a dent proved to a bad build the other issue is a curved top deck i think I can resolve with a extra bulkhead

Well as the better half calls it firewood mind you who ever made it was related to the Flintstones as its build was pretty rubbish its another that has been put in the loft as a future build into what who knows

Having looked over what was a pile of wood I have carried on stripping off the paint and took aprt the forward bulkhead that caused the horrible shape in the stern of the boat this wooden bulkhead no1 seems to be too big by2mm on each side I am not sure how to trim it back without destroying the balsa wood strips that makes up the bottom of the boat if that makes sense, So we shall carry on with this Sows Ear

lucky this boat was in my other shed drying very pleased with the hull repair I sealed the hull and sprayed the hull and its has had two coats of lacquer on top bit worried about the prop would it be good suggestion to fit a prop support

well the forward gun came via ebay and busted by the Royal Mail so thats all glued up and now primed is lighty grey it looks to light so what is the correct color

Well following the advice from Bill I have remade the wedge out of hardwood and sealed now on second coat of top paint, that much is done been working on the forward gun and sorting out the parts that was missing for the deck I will need to get the mast, torpedos x 4 and the torpedo loading cranes from Battle crafts

For those that are obsessed with size the prop is 35mm is that the right size had trouble getting one that fits due to the UNC thread on the prop