Here’s a short update. Modeling time has been nil with the kid home from college, but a few things…
The boat cranes are prominent features and are pretty poorly rendered.
Drilled out and starting to put on the railings. These will get much better I promise.
The bridge and the railings/dodgers part are pathetic. Cut a new one out of scribed sheet. I’ll have a little fun on the underside with triangled braces.
The conning tower/ citadel, like all of the superstructures, has really bad draft from top to bottom. Wrapped in styrene sheet, you can see the difference between the bottom (tight) and the top.
First of several coats of black.
Next, scratch up a series of torpedo net cranes from 0.015 wire. Already drilled holes for the bases. Need to fiddle up a little detail on those.
Masked the hull for the base coat of MM “wood”. I haven’t tried this one before as a base, but I wanted something pretty yellow.
Then I laid down four different plank colors using a toothpick. Again I experimented with some new colors. This time I used a brown that I’m not entirely happy with, but that’s life…
Last I sprayed on a thinned out coat of flat gull gray, which is a good weathered color for decks. Stripped the masks and she looks good.
I fabricated new stacks out of nested sizes of brass tube. The height of the base was measured from a drawing and looks much better than the rather sad kit part. I’ve always used a razor saw in a miter box to cut tubing, but that then means squaring up the exposed ends. So I tried a tubing cutter. It works great except that it ever so slightly reduces the diameter at the cut and makes it very hard to force the inner piece through. Answer- nest them together and cut through all three. It took a little planning but solved the problem,
