Good Evening Ladies and Gentlemen...
I posted this originally on RCG, but I wanted to share it here, maybe it could give some ideas to others...
It stated with a bare hull, made initially for a runabout, but, after an unofficial poll about what to do with it, I took Umi's suggestion and went for the patrol boat.
I found one quite interesting, the Souya:
and started building a structure, with the parts designed in Corel and cut in a local laser cutter shop:
From here, it was only about details, including radar, radios, dash, interior lights...
and finally I got the fire monitor done, but it's just a first version:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4MBubal06is