I started this a while back, and have been pecking away at it.
Probably the first kit I have built in 17 years. But it was on sale, free shipping, and I accidentally purchase one.
It's a great kit, blow molded one piece hull and deck and Pilot house roof, and CNC pilot house walls and railings, a resin cast mast.
When I opened the box everything was great, even a set a plans,... but no instructions.
Ah well, I wasn't intending to follow any plans or instructions in the first place, but it would have been nice to
know where they had intended people to to start construction.
So the first thing I decided to do was sand away the top hatch, and open up two windows on either side of the roof.
I cemented a styrene patch to the interior indentation to make sure I didn't sand through the material and open up a new hole.
The bow was the next modification. The Pilot boat has a raised wave break, and the CG45 has a flush deck.
The hull is pretty thick, but a few strikes with a heavy duty Olfa snap blade, and the wave break parted from the deck.
The hull is ABS, or something, it weld pretty nicely with styrene. So I pushed an oversized patch into place from the inside, and
chemically welded that into place. Once that had cured, I placed a filler patch into the cut to flush out the deck. Then filled and
sanded that till the deck faired out smooth.