Hi One and All
First my I take you all down memory lane, the second model ship that I made was the Dean Marine HMS Bulldog, so when I saw one for sale on a Facebook page at £50.00 I went for it, oh such a big mistake.
When I picked it up from a friend in Norwich (who had collected it for me) I could have just put it into his bin😭, after looking at it for some time I felt that I could in time make a passable model out of it, and this is my attempt at a rebuild.
I must say at this point that this will not be a fast rebuild.👍

Now that the decks are removed I was then able to see how all the running gear was placed and fixed, I was in luck as the original builder had use a 300 type motor x 2 and had not gone down the servo motor route, I removed all the running gear alone with the electrics that was in place, I now turned my attention to the shafts, as they were fixed in place I felt that it would do more damage to remove them and replace them with new, it is a shame that the prop's are plastic I just may well look at replacing them at a later date.
I now looked at the rudders and as they are of white metal I felt that they would be O.K.

Now the fun starts
I started by rubbing down the inside of the bulwarks, in doing so I found that they had not been taken down to their correct level. so I started by removing the excess until they were all at the correct level.
I the started to fitting all new deck beams and tided up the gunge that had been used to fix the shafts and rudder posts,

You my ask whey have I not use filler to smooth out the bulwarks, well I am going to try plastic card, I am hoping that it will work so when I come to fit all the rib's to the bulwarks I can use liquid glue and not super glue.

Sorry but I will have to post the photos later as the battery in my camera need's charging.

Fred

Hi
Sorry for the delay in posting, as you see I have now fitted new deck beams along with cutting out and fitting box's around the anchor port's, I have also painted the inside of the hull, next job is to fix some new cross beams for the new decks to sit on.

O.k been a bit of some time since my last update.

So to-day I tried to sort out the rudder link, I first tried to use some thin rod but that just bent when I tried to put the rudders over, next was some thicker rod that worked to a point (just like me😁), I have now come to the conclusion that I need better rudder horns than the W/M one's in the kit so I will start looking for some small brass collets and make my own.

As the title say's it's hair pulling time again, I tried to fix the W/M rudder horn's but with no luck, and my local model shop do not have any collets that small. moved onto fixing the motor's and yes they were out of line so set to and make a new motor bed.

I came across a site called Scale Warship (www.scalewarship.com) so I only went a got myself some Photo Etch R.N Generic Port holes and R.N Generic style Ladders, and yes the person that built her in the first place has made the port hole's way to big so out with the p40 filler.

Will I ever get a run of good luck with this Ship.😁

Hi
Well after some time thinking about making some new rudder horns (thinking = four beers) I have made them out of an old three pin plug I used the small fuse clip that the wire goes into, I have also used a mini servo and all seem's to work O.K, new motor mount made so that the motor's now line up, I also had to make a new rear deck and bulk head I will in time plank the rear deck, I have also started on making new rear deck housing.

Fred

Hi
After sorting out the rudders I fitted the rear deck, I then moved on and fitted the for-deck, now we all know about saying measure and measure again then cut, well I did just that and yes I had made the cutout in the for-deck too small by 1/2 an inch in length, I only found this out when I started to make the for-deck housing. I had to do the for-deck housing so the I could work out just were to fit the smoke stack housing as I have no plans for this boat, so all measurement's are taken from all the old deck's and deck housings.

All the best👍

Fred

Hi One and All
I see that I started this blog some three years ago.

On Saturday I posted that I had got myself a hull and plane pack for the Guardsman, in reply to a comment I said that I had a rebuild that I had just put to the back of the garage as the deck housing was making her look as if she had broken her back, so this Sunday i made time to get her from out off the garage, I think that I will give her a second chance it should be only making a new top half of the deck housing to stop her looking like a broken ship, then move onto fitting he out. so may be in another three year who knows I just my have a working model.

Keep Safe

Fred

Well it's been some time since I have posted anything with regards to this build.
In the six years of this rebuild I have built four boats and moved clubs, so I think it is time I took another look at her, so her goes.