Looks like I got my alphabet wrong, CMB instead of HDML. No matter.
Bought & built the Brengun Tupolev G-5 torpedo boat a while back and thought about reworking it to a CMB. Well, I obtained a second Brengun boat to give it a try. After studying some photos & dimensions, (the 55ft CMB is 60ft long & the Tupolev G-5 is 61ft long so close enough for me to work to) It looked like I needed to give the stern a slightly increased and rounded look. (As you can see, I'm not a rivet counter. If it looks close enough to what I see I can work with that). After cutting the waste resin off the hull I added strips of plasticard to the hull from bow to stern & a thinner strip to the hull chine line as sanding guides.
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Some masking tape was added to the upper hull and then I used car body filler to reshape the hull. The masking tape was removed while the filler was still soft. This left a narrow strip that I used as a guide to sand to when reshaping the hull topsides.
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Once the hull sides were sanded to shape. Strips of plasticard were added to the hull sides to represent reinforcing strips.
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The gunner's position on the bow was cut off and filled as the boat I was doing has separate intake cowls on the bow not the big air scoop. The bridge was then made and then what I assume are the torpedo guides at the stern
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Now down to detail work/painting and an appropriate base to show it to best advantage.
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Model is painted as CMB 213 used and sunk in the Mediterranean Sea. Crete 1941 as one of a batch taken over from the Philippines Navy
Sorry that some of the photos are slightly blurred
Next up is the NeOmega model of the HDML. (Maybe if I don’t get distracted again.)
