Having just completed a 1/12th scale model of a 47ft Watson Class Lifeboat with the Solent cabin conversion, the RNLB Joseph Soar, for its current owner and having the boat and its travelling box cluttering up my main work space (the kitchen!!) which is preventing me at the moment from completing a model of the Whitby Trent, I dug out one of the Model Slipway small kits I have stashed about the house and decided to give it a go.
The kit I am building is their 1/35(approx) stand off scale model of the Tamar. This is based on their small Trent model with a new deck overlay and a new superstructure moulding.
The styrene mouldings ready for trimming.
The trimming has been done as given in the instructions using scissors,craft knife and sanding blocks. The kit specifies a single prop and rudder BUT I decided that two motors and rudders should be fitted for no other reason than as the full size boat has two engines so should the model!! so the positions for the shafts was marked and cut out. The centre access in the deck will be removed later when the hull and deck are bonded to help keep things rigid at the moment.
I have made and fitted keels to give the stern of the boat a more Tamar look.
Simple 2mm shafts with 30 mm props have been fitted and bonded in place. These are not "handed" but as this is a stand off scale model I don't really care !!
Inside the hull two 400 size motors have been fitted, (which will give it plenty of go as I use them in conversions of the mini RNLI Severn Lifeboat) and a plate fitted at the stern to hold the rudder servo, battery pack and the blocks for the twin rudders.
Rudders will be fitted tomorrow and a couple of coats of primer on the outside of the hull.