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Hi,

The hull has had two coats of undercoat applied; it will need at least several more before a top coat can be considered. The hull however is pretty smooth and as the next major job is to mount the engine in the hull it was decided to fit the propeller and rudder tubes in place.  An old ST oscillating engine restored many years ago and not used had it's colour changed from red to Brunswick green which is sort of a Stuart Turner green?  Whether the engines were painted I don’t know, possibly as many were home built if they were painted they might be any colour.  The propeller and rudder tubes were glued in place and clearances checked.  As yet I haven’t been able to figure out from photographs how the tiller is connected to the rudder shaft. There is a 3/32” (nearly 2.5mm) plain hole in the rudder shaft, so a 2mm brass rod threaded 8BA on its end was fitted, held in place with a couple of nuts. There is a cunning plan to maybe leave the stern deck loose so that another deck fitted with rudder only radio control could replace it and having an easily removed tiller might help this. This I had done on one of the Bowman Eagle copies I made some years ago and it worked really well.

Take care Tony.
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