Been hankering after building the Russian G5 for some time, ever since I saw it on Models by Design table at Alesford last year. Found some info on the web, plus some Mayhem'ers stepped up and gave me some info, thank you all.
The hull looks more like a float of of a seaplane than anything and the "wheelhouse" is a conning tower of of a sub, weird looking thing, spitting image of the WW1 55ft CMBs built by Thornycroft. Bit of espionage there me thinks.
Had the hull for a bit and have been marking her up with some datum lines, there is not one right angle, flat surface or straight line anywhere. Joy. She was built out of aluminium plate, riveted to frames. More joy. there are a lot of rivets. Going to do this by gluing thin strips of plastic to the hull and the gluing on the cut shapes of the plates. Hopefully that will give me the oil canning effect.Then I will do the rivets. Have a plan for that.
Ordered the shafts from ModelBoatBits, arrived within a week, good service. Seeing as I have measured of plans that are not to scale I think I may well have got it right, 16" shaft, 6" tubes and 2 "P" brackets per shaft. Hoping to get these in this weekend.
Power is going to be 2 brushless, have ordered them, went against all I have ever said about not buying from shops when I found advice not very forthcoming and very expensive. Bought of the internet. Reckon powering boats is a bit of a black art so fingers crossed and have gone with Nicks suggestion. Ta.
Have attached photo I found on the web.
Cracking on with building now, while I can. Will put some piccies up when the shafts are done.
Colin