Sorry to keep you all waiting, the Easter break went a bit pear-shaped. Should have been at an English Civil War re-enactment in Basingstoke but the car is a little poorly. Only a bit but significant and the main dealers can't fix it, yet.
Spent most of the week-end with she who walks in splendour, but have been doing things like finishing off the torpedo tubes, drilling the extra holes needed in the bases. Opened up the insides to take the device warheads. Spent some time burring out the smaller cowls and cleaning up the large cowls. I also filled and sanded the sink marks in the deck, and on the oerlikon bandstand, and filled and sanded the propellors.
But it is all small stuff no major steps forwards.
However I am hoping to change all of that soon. I found some cheap small remote control boats, here
http://gadgetsangizmos.co.uk/onlineshop/prod_125329-Mini-RC-2CH-Speed-Boat.htmlHave ordered a couple of these and will use one in the Vosper. They should be here this week.
The Vosper is never going to be a major player on my local lake, as a first project I'll be happy if I can get it to go forwards and back and turn left and right. I have learned so much doing this that I already have my next project lined up. But this little boat will hopefully do the business, and allow me to make the Vosper a sealed unit, with the on-off switch and charger coupler hidden under the companion way covers.
BTW I decided to go with the kit oerlikons after I saw a group build on another forum.
The other thing about all of this is that I haven't actually made a large model in years - I mainly paint wargames figures - and it is very nice to be involved in this work, and find I can still do it.
Oh and one little thing - Airfix now do a small motor, with plastic coupler tube and shaft, for making the props work on their 1/24 scale aircraft. They used to do these but the motors never had a lot of torque and could be stoped with a finger very easily. These don't, with a single AA battery (in UK terms) they are quite fast and pack a fair bit of grunt, and all for GBP2.99.