This next photo is not too clear but it shows the shark jaws in the raised position, I have soldered on two triangular sections that act as the opening pivots for rods to push them up from inside the deck, the triangles can be made out with a small hole drilled in them. The next stage for these is to fabricate the plasticard jaws to bond over the brass opening mechanism.
Now on to what has become a thorn in this build, something I wanted to do but now wished I hadn't! The four stern towing pins that raise from the deck. My first problem has been caused by an interfering shop owner in the UK! I went in and selected all the K&S brass tubing I needed to last me a while. He comes over and takes it all from me, because I had selected the pieces on card backing, which was his new stock, he wanted to sell the old loose stock first. I left him to it and he brought back to the counter 'his' selection. Stupid of me not to check, but I put my faith in him. I've now found that the 5mm tube that stopped me before xmas and which I had selected, he had picked out 6mm, aarghhh!
So hunting around the shops here in Spain for something I could use, I came up with 5mm knitting needles 'plastic' so the pack said, except on dropping one it sounded distinctly metallic, they were plastic coated but hollow aluminium tube! So a bit of fiddling but I have now got four towing pins ready for the next part of the build.
In the next photo you can see the shaped tops of the pins, I soft soldered together four pieces of brass sheet, then filed them to the correct profile, then reheated and pulled them apart.