Bill Waldorf wrote:
Dave Wooley wrote:
"Master craftman at work"
Bill your dedication to the craft and your ability is once again shown for all to see. How you build so quickly and accurately is amazing .
Dave Wooley
Thanks Dave.....I'm out of work till the end of the month, so rather than do housework, I build. Been doing 12 hour days on this thing. Not alot to go on with this one so alot is best guess scenario. Thanks to my customer, who was on board during WW2, I have got alot of info. But as usual, there is always a piece missing. A ways to go yet, but it is coming together. I'm not really sold on these fibreglass hulls either. As I said, a new learning curve. How is Kiev coming along???
Hi Bill I To be perfectly honest like you I much prefer to scratch build the hull from the keel up . I had to do to much jig sawing and chopping up the Kiev hull before I was convinced it was usable. I have only once built on an accurate GRP hull and that was HMS Mersey , that hull was spot on. I guess it is all down to the making of the plug , accurate plug accurate mould, accurate hull . There are certainly lots of advantages for the R/C modeller , bag of access and easy to set up the running gear., batteries , ballast etc but the bottom line is you are doing what you have been asked to do to the very best of your ability and you really can't ask better than that. As for Kiev well , have you ever climbed a set of hills and you think you have just approached the summit only to find there is another summit beyond that well that's Kiev in a nut shell , but it will be completed come hell or high water !!!!!
Dave Wooley
Dave Wooley