HMS Fearless is a model to my usual warship scale of 1/192 and not the more usual 1/96 for ships of this type. I still have a few bits to do in terms of detailing but otherwise it's complete. It has two smoke units in the funnels as she was a steam powered vessel and the blades on the helicopter on the flight deck do rotate. It works on four channels using two mtroniks speed controllers, which independently control both motors.
Are you scratch building these larger scale ships? I have a few large scale but from kits like Nichimo 1/200 series but have never scratch built a ship. Are you going to mold the detail parts your self? I would be interested what method you use for that process.
I scratch build all of my ships in this scale because and apart from ladders and some railings I can't get the parts I need from the trade. The water tight doors for example are made in plasticard in the first instance as a master pattern (usually times about four) as on Fearless I need 50 water tight doors altogether of two different patterns. I then make a moulding box and make a rubber mould for the parts and then cast them as I need them using poly cast resin.
Other items are scratchbuilt in plasticard from the drawings. 60 thou for the deck and 40,20 and 10 thou for the superstructure plus round plastic and square plastic from Evergreen, or Slaters. Fearless at the back has a wooden deck in the loading platform area and it's a fibreglass hull on that one. I have scratchbuilt a few ships now from drawings and currently I am working on HMS Ark Royal 5 through deck carrier in 1/192 and a semi scale model of HMS Dido from a free plan in Model Boats.
