Hi everyone
After a hectic week at work (if you know my current job is you'll know what I'm on about!) I couldn't do any work on the Prince George- quite annoying but hey that's life in a blue suit (whoops RAFisms
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When I returned home on Friday I decided that I would use the plans in the Warship Vol VII in conjunction with the kit plans, which meant that the rudder had to be remade.
So after the decision was made I removed the old plastic card rudder and the rudder post from the hull. Using the plans I drew up a new rudder on to some thin brass sheet, and filled in the old rudder post hole.
I found some brass rod which was the same diameter as the old rudder post and shaft and carefully soldered them together, not a perfect job but looks more accurate, just needs a proper clean up.
In addition to the new rudder I decided that the prop shafts looked too skinny so once again with the plans in Warship Vol VII I beefed them up with plastic card strip coated in car body filler, smoothed whilst wet and sanded round in shape. A bit more filling and sanding is required on the shaft to finish it off, I've only done the port shaft at the moment but it makes all the difference.
A special thanks to Colin-d for showing me pictures of the Rabosche props and Deans Marine for the quick delivery, they arrived Thursday morning, they really do look the part, they are only temporarily attached to show everyone what they look like.
The hull will be ballasted tomorrow morning at Wicksteed Park model boating lake, so we will see how much lead will need to be added to the batteries, motors, foggy unit and the deck/superstructure.
HMS Prince George will be on display on Saturday at the Deans Marine Open Days, hopefully looking a bit more majestic!