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Mark has an ambitious plan - to build a 148 scale model of the Royal Navy's last steam powered surface vessel, HMS Fearless. But first he needs to find a good draughtsman.
Creating the hull, with expert help from Peter Keevil.
The teams looks at ways to partly-submerge the vessel, and explore Captain Howey's third-scale model railway.
No seaborne model would be complete without some sort of movement. Here we find out about the methods of propulsion available to the modellers.
In this episode we find out where the servos will be placed and what elements they will control.
Expert Tim Morgan advises Mark Found on the small details of building and fitting the deck.
Mark Found begins building the superstructure - the buildings on top of the deck - and starts by making a simple box frame.
Sound expert Grant Benton offers Mark Found advice on how to create the perfect bells and whistles for the model.
A number of radio-controlled landing craft are created on Mark Found's model.
Mark Found continues building work on his model of HMS Fearless, adapting a challenger battle tank kit into a radio-controlled model.
Grant Benton builds a radio-controlled model of a Sea King helicopter.
Mark Found learns durable tricks of the trade as he starts adding the finishing touches.
Mark Found begins painting the model helicopter, but soon discovers it is not as simple as using a spray gun.
It's launch day and we try out the ship, the landing craft and the tank.
