Having had a break from building for a while (mainly due to space for models) I've re-modelled my garden shed with a new bench (all comes apart and folds down) and made some more space. Latest project is a landing barge with which I'll be trying different rescue methods. The hull is made using foam blocks and f/glass again, as balsa prices are just getting ridiculous ! - more expensive than normal timber. As usual, filed to shape with a Surform file and glassed with 60z cloth. The propulsion will be semi tunnel drives, using twin 550 brushed motors and twin ESCs (usually reliable and fine once you have the reverse method sorted). The LC will also have twin El cheapo sound units from Ali Exp,
Wheelhouse if from 4mm light ply, recycled from a recently purchased Hyundai chipper crate, and only weighs 700g.

Hull is 800x330x60mm and weighs 880g (probably 1kg with another coat of resin and paint) so will be very buoyant, (my other barge which a similar size but 10mm thinner, barely moves with a 2kg RC 4x4 on it,- even easily supported my 6kg 6x6 amphitruck). Very cheap and quick to build, unsinkable, super durable and no rot problems. Being winter here, I have to wait for warm days to do more glassing, so it's taking time. Along side the LC, I've also been rebuilding a plane, which was built from only a few surviving photos of a rare one off early 50s prototype from a small US private aircraft co. Wing was a guess, as no good pics of the shape, but was a failure, (before, crash, rebuild pics) so have designed a new one. Fuselage just rebuilt,- wing to go.