Morning Stavros,
I have built several working winches, now comes the crunch questions
do you want it to be the actual deck winch that is the working part or do you want to have the winch hidden and the tow line appear to come from the deck winch.
Do you want the winch to pull loads and not run out at any weight
what power are you thinking of using
one way is to canabilise a 4X4 rc car for the diff unit and then glue the systen so that the differential is locked you will then have a reduction gear and a 90 deg drive assembly. the motor drive can come through the deck or from within the accommodation, one side of the diff needs a drum for the tow line the other can have a "drum end" for astetics.
is this any help
R,