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I will send you a PM Wayne no worries, best regards John. PS if you click on my avatar a little box opens with start a conversation.

G'day Wayne, here are three items you can have, if you want them, a lanthorn a bucket and a little ship's cat, just PM me your address and I will have them in the post to you, best regards john, .

G'day Wayne, I built the Krick Steam Launch Borkum 1/12 scale approx 7 years ago and used electric motors with false boiler, I believe I may have a spare lanthorn if you want it, I will have a look for it later today, your build is excellent and very detailed, I will go through it all today...

G'day Lawrence, that's some mighty fine workmanship you and your little fellas have accomplished, I've enjoyed catching up from over the last couple of weeks, give our love to Bernadette, Best regards John,

Thank you Paul, Best regards John,

Next up was to make a stand I just used up some the wood I had around the workshop, the main thing to make sure of is that the stand is high enough so that the props and rudders are clear, another view, a look below, just a little bit of final adjustment needed, the edges of the frames will...

on the outside of the hull where the shafts go through I used body filler to fill and seal the holes, and with the rudders temporarily in position just to check their fit, and another view, best regards john, .

I had two rudders but they were too small, so I decided to enlarge them, I have plenty of pieces of brass and copper in my junk box, but didn't have any that would do the job on their own, so I had to use several pieces for each rudder, shows two pieces cut to fit, I cleaned these up and...

The tubes coming inboard, I lined them up and epoxied them both to some pieces of wood laid across the hull, when the epoxy had dried I then Fibre glassed over where they came through the hull, best regards john,

So, is the Tooth Fairy real, . best regards John,

Thank you everyone for all the likes, Best regards John,

Thank you Uwe, Best regards John,

Nice work Lawrence and great photos as well, it looks like you have invented a new type of catapult, best regards John,

Thank you Paul, best regards John ,

after I was happy with the tube prop positions I bent the ends of the support brackets added them to the tube prop assembly and marked there place, then I drilled four holes through the hull and added screws to hold them temporarily in place, another view, I then dismantled everything, and...

Before I could do anything else on the deck I had to turn her over and fit the shafts rudders etc, the running gear, shafts tubes props rudders an supports for the tubes, close up of the props, they are 55mm dia right and left handed, marking out the bottom for where the tubes exit the...

I cut aand lined a hatch for the forward Bofor to sit on, so that I could add ballast to the fore end if needed, fitting the ammo lockers on the raised hatch, I marked where they were to go and then drilled a couple of holes through so that i could insert dowells from underneath for...

I trimmed down the base of the goblet and added some reinforcing strips around it, also added a nut and bolts for securing to the deck, close up view, made up some ammunition lockers, front view, best regards john, ,

You can definitely do it with two ESC, but I think that with a high speed motor boat it would be a bit finicky, best of luck with whatever ever way you go, . best regards John,

G'day Lawrence you and the little fellas are really moving along, some really nice workmanship, looking very good, Best regards John,