Scratch building a hull over a driver, rather than building a plug

[Von Hilde]

Ive noticed that the guys that want to scratch build in a scale not commercially available, generally go with the plug mold and cast resin type hulls. It seems like alot of extra time consuming steps, just to come up with a container for the driver and running gear. I realise there are several advantages to this method, one being be able to pop out multiple hulls, and another, a simple way to access the driver for maintainance or use in another project. Has anyone takin a WTC driver and built a hull around it? Instead of shaping some foam blanks to get the proper lines using the cross section templates. Then having the mess of casting and clean up. You can make bulkheads out of sheet plastic or wood over a keel, and wire frame it. Then cover it with sheeting, just like the real boats. You will have a drop in hull without all the mess. I have scratch built some static models, using the covered frame method and contimplated powering them up after the fact, but hate to chop them open to stick in all the stuff.

[Peter W]

Von Hilde, have a look in Builders Threads and look at my HMS Vengeance build that is the finished article being built, is that what you mean.All the best,Peter.

[Von Hilde]

Yup, thats what Im talking about, nice job your doing, inspireing me to use more plastic, in the next build.