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Hi all,

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.
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.
Once the hull sides were sanded to shape. Strips of plasticard were added to the hull sides to represent reinforcing strips.
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

Now down to detail work/painting and an appropriate base to show it to best advantage.
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.)

Superb little build

You've made a beautiful job of it.