this is the contents of the box, comes with one propshaft & rudder but will not use the single shaft as I will be fitting two of my own.
no fittings at all so will have to find them as no-one makes fittings for this particular kit.

the main section of the hull is made from 6mm x 6 inch x 34 inch 5 ply sides and bottom, with 6mm 5 ply formers.
this will make the access to radio,battery,motors very easy as the opening is 34 inches long x 6 inches wide with all the superstructure fixed on top of the hatch.

after fitting 12mm x 34 inch balsa strip to bottom outside edge to allow profiling later I glued in alternate pieces of block to the bow,10 in all from 12mm to 25mm thick, one on top of the other either side of the bow former.

the stern is built up in the same way as the bow but the middle block (50mm thick) has the inside cut away to form the passageway for the rudder post and 12 inch carbon fiber rod with adjustable clevises for rudder control.when dry the 1.5mm ply deck can be glued on top of the last 12mm block.

as you can see I should have posted this pic before the last one but it shows how the block and hollow 50mm stern piece make up the passage for the control rod

I fitted two 10 inch stainless steel shafts m4 threaded both ends with 50mm props, the kit says to use 450 motors (standard) but I will use 540hs motors with added motor can to increase torque.the mounts have been fixed to a 't' hardwood mount bottom to bottom so to speak so I can get the motors as low down as possible to help stability...

the funnel in the kit is a solid balsa block so I cut 2 1.5mm ply plates shaped to the profile of the funnel and glued one on each end which enabled me to sand the soft block to shape

I drilled into both ends of the funnel and cut away the ply plate to leave a 4mm rim so I could get a 1 inch chisel inside to hollow it out.
finishing off with a 1/2 inch chisel so the funnel wall was around 4mm thick, then glued on the base and follow the hole in the funnel down when dry,then I glued a piece of 5mm balsa across the top of the funnel,cut out the hole and light sanded it to leave it slightly proud of the funnel surface

The stern and bow need to be profiled,also started the torpedo tubes which are just 8mm dowels.

unfortunately I have lost a lot of the building photo's but have still got some left.
the access to rc gear is 34 inches long and all of the superstructure Ie bridge,funnel,pom pom deck,aux steering deck,aft gun deck is secured to it, its not my plan to have 'moving' guns because I have done this before and from a distance you can't see them move very well so I won't bother. besides I have only a spektrum dx3s 3 channel 2.4ghz transmitter and will use the third channel to activate the 'woop woop' attack alarm that I purchased from e-bay.