With careful planning, taping, and painting you can hide this particular problem fairly well. For instance, I’m currently building Renwal’s USS Seminole ( Build log: Renwal 1/500 USS Seminole Attack Cargo Ship Chap. 4 08/27/25 - Modeling Subjects / Ships - Finescale Modeler Forum. Comparing the box art to the plans to the historical photos to the mk.1 eyeball, I was able to find a reasonable height for the hull red, and reduced the width of the black boot stripe, which created a forced perspective effect and pleasing to the eye finished hull. There are only a couple pics of the hull so far, as I need to shoot the gray and the boot yet, but based on what I’m seeing so far, it’s going to look fine. Please follow along as I build this tribute to my grandpa.
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