| That ballast idea is so simple and I didn't even think about that!!! I was going to use metal/sand/whatever... stupid! In terms of scale, I was kinda thinking about seeing the two of them together which I guess we still can though they won't be scaled together. I'm going to stick with the 1/40th scale- I got a good internal profile from squirting expanding foam into the Airfix kit hull though it did look like a loaf rising at the end. I'm hoping to restrict the weight to a half ton unladen. I've got some design/build innovations that should help considerably. I plan to do some time lapse photos so that you can see the thing built before your eyes as well as detail shots as they occur. I just got a friend on board (pun intended) who is a master sprayer who has volunteered to paint the whole thing for free! |