Full Size Printed Plans and Article Catamaran workboat scale 1:16 L 31.6 For Radio control

Full size printed plans on two 40” x 27 ½” Sheets

Four-page article with modeling tips and photos

Note: for experience model builder no building notes

You may find several articles online for building

Scale 1:16

Length 31.6

Beam 14 ¾”

Power Suggest twin electric

Suitable for Radio Control

Lonabrak

By By James Pottinger

Lonabrak was designed by the Macduff Ship Design Company and built at their shipyard for Scottish Sea Farms (SSF) who are based in the Shetland Islands. This workboat is 12.44 metres long with a 6 metre beam, and has conventional twin propeller drive from two Mermaid Minstral 160 HP engines running at 2500 rpm. The model plans have been drawn from illustrations on the Macduff website and some drawings provided by SSF, plus observations and sightings of the prototype Model

Whilst an initial impression might be of a complicated model construction process, in fact it will be little different from a traditionally shaped mono-hull. Most model builders will have their own preferred method of building, but my preference would be to cut to shape the inside backbone profiles and then temporally pin them together and lay them upside down on an already prepared full-hull width deck shape, with suitable packing under the after section of the main deck to ensure all is level, enabling a firm base from which to build. As the inner faces of each hull are basically 100% flat, after setting up the frames, the outer sides of each hull can be planked up to deck level in the same manner as a mono-