Hi all.
I thought i'd start a build log on here. Recieved the plans from traplet the other day and im hoping to get started this weekend. The plans are at a scale of 1/66 but i intend on scaling up today. Cant make my mind up between 1/50 or 1/36. With scale 1/36 i get a nice big model about 1700 long but im worred about transporting issues but i do i like bigger models. Even at scale 1/50 it comes out around 1200 but my hands dont do so well on the fiddly details!
I plan to use a digitiser to scale up the hull lines. The digitiser uses autocad so i can choose whatever scale i want really. I will just use a normal photocopier to do the rest of the scaling. Hopefully this will work. I just cant be bothered going to the local photocopying shops and have some turkey mess my drawings up...
I am going to install as much working features as i can into the hull. 2 bow thrusters, 1 stern thruster, water cannons, tank steering, maybe a working winch, lights and possibly more if i can think of anything. I have about 100 or so decent photographs gathered up on my pc to help with the detail. I got some cracking photographs from sea mariner (posts on mayhem) which show lots of deck detail so big thianks to him! The rest have just been found from trawling the internet. Theres a few good pictures of models on the OSV society website too.
I will post some pictures of the progress as soon as there is any!
Thanks,
G