dont know if anyone is interested or not im posting some pictures of my build so far:
After practicing plank on frame with card board i had ago in wood. i dredged through pictures and build blogs on here to get the gist of how to do plank on frame and designed my own hull. I came across some hurdles and the results could have been prettier but worked. You can see the 540 motor and gearbox i made, propshaft and coupling from MMB.
A gargantuan leap of time later im at this stage today. so far build time has been a week for me this is the longest ever.
in this pick the esc installed, motors installed, steering hardware and ballasting. for ballast Ive used fish tank gravel in sandwhich bags
all covered with deck in place. i also painted theinside of the hull in a rainbow of colours that i had laying about to protect the wood from the elements.
here is the prop and the rudder i made out of brass. Ive never soldered brass before and i had to do it with my soldering iron but its strong and it will hold.
i also used dope and tissue on the hull to seal the bottom
my scruffy interior. and my wooden gear box. quite chuffed with how that turned out
working on the deck now i think I'm going for a stern trawler it seems to be heading for that direction anyway.