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HMS Cottesmore in 1/48 scale.

Hi Guys, It's at this stage of the build that I had to start thinking at least three steps ahead as there is nothing more annoying than when you discover that you should of done this or that before you glued something down. So the plan was to figure what I wanted where such as motors, ESC's, servos and how I was going to wire it all up. Now that the sweep deck was glued in place i needed to make some cutouts in the sweep deck, one so that I could get at the rudder linkage and one for the prop shaft couplings. Also I wanted to be able to get everything in and out just in case I needed to repair anything. The decision was made to mount everything on removable trays that would be screwed down, and so that they would always go back in the same position I used location dowels and the must go through the opening. So there's a lot of figuring out to do. In the meantime I started on some detail work. Water tight doors first then some other bits and pieces. The doors were made using two layers of plastic card and brass wire. Then I put on the main deck and held it in place with masking tape. I know that it made it a little more difficult but if l could not get it in through the opening then that plan would not work. Here are a few photos of the removable trays as I was trying to figure it all out. And some of the sweep deck. The advantage of only taping the main deck down was that I could remove it to be able to glue the fixing positions down, and make sure that I could still get at everything.

5 years ago by Martin555