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.
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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.
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in this pick the esc installed, motors installed, steering hardware and ballasting. for ballast Ive used fish tank gravel in sandwhich bags
![Crazy %%](https://www.modelboatmayhem.co.uk/forum/Smileys/Tug/cheesy1.gif)
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.
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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.
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i also used dope and tissue on the hull to seal the bottom
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my scruffy interior. and my wooden gear box. quite chuffed with how that turned out
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working on the deck now i think I'm going for a stern trawler it seems to be heading for that direction anyway.