It’s been a while since adding some photos but I have made a bit more progress on the build. After checking how much ballast would be needed to get her down to her water line the delay has been making good access points for easy fitting of ballast and batteries, after giving it some thought I decided to make the whole planked area removable this has worked out quite well if repairs to the drive headgear is needed. The other section midships that is primed is another removable section, the big stern winch will be fitted on to this.
I normally mark out the deck plates with a scriber to simulate weld lines but I thought I would see what individual plates looked like, I was quite pleased with the outcome and won’t need any filer between deck and bulwarks as the plate are a good fit, I made the deck plates from 1mm plasicard. The access hatch in the planked area lifts out this will be a good place for on/off switches for the ESC’s.I have decided to name the new build UNION BOXER and I will be painting her in the colours she was originally built.