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I just attached the 2 halfs on each gun. Then just for fun stuck in the barrels to get an idea what it will look like. 

also Im starting to get stuff for the missouri. I hope this stuff airbrushes ok. 

I have to try somthing, they look really good.  maybe theres other aftermaket blast bags out there

I started assembling the 4 16" guns. I will try it in 3 stages plastics/PE/resin. Plastics went together nicely. 

but the resin is  going to be a different story. They look really good,  but I am hugely disappointed in the fact that the resin blast bags are solid! I have to drill them out myself and its a tapering hole. Its going to be a massive pain. Im still working on the first 1 for 2 hours and still not done. I'm thinking of just not using blast bags. 

Dammit..Why did MK1 have to do that?!? 

The guns should be very fun! And not to hard. 

I had a little time today so I atleast got the plastics ready. 

ya i have to take some better photos.

I brought out the bismarck today to install  the foremast. 

then the main mast which is slightly off center. 

then I shaded the range finder. 

and installed it. 

Next is the signal lamp.  

also I want to take care of all this stuff before I get to the guns. It's been building up for a year. 

A beautiful morning to airbrush...

simple only 2 pieces. 

only took about 35 minutes. 

up next, guns.

Thank you 

I can see upclose so the shipyard remains open. Yup the bridge of my nose is cut open from the glasses trying to fuse to my face. 

Ya it sucked Lou. We were doing snow removal and i was in a little skidsteer. The bucket hit a manhole in the street. Its like hitting a solid concrete wall. It stopped but i kept going till my face smashed the windshield cracking it. And My glasses completely shattered. 

oooh.  that looks awesome!

Ooooh i see. 

but it wont lay flat with the crows nest and everything else sticking out.   but I tend to do most things the hard way.  even my day off today was done the hard way... smashed my face into a windshield at work and got sent to the hospital... calling in sick would have been the easy way

I  pretty much finished the main mast today. 

 There was only really two things to do. first was to put the crows nest on. 

then to just attach the two main pieces. 

and thats it. Now time for paint.  Why does the camera make the angles look off? Doesn't look that bad in person. 

Oooooh. Cool 

You know your ship battles Lou! I learned Alot. Whats the difference between and battleship and a battle cruiser?

I watched a documentary on the Bismarck on youtube yesterday.  Very interesting... yes the hood was firing on the wrong ship. They say it Only took the bismarck 8 minutes to sink the hood.  

But I still love the look of her fully striped. But I messed it up to bad. I originally thought I would embarrass myself putting a build log on this website being a rookie and all. But everybody has been so nice and  supportive. 

Oh believe me there are MUCH bigger mistakes than that. Massive mistakes! Those Black and white stripes on the bow were supposed to continue Up the superstructure.  But I messed up the stripes so bad I can't continue them up the  superstructure. 

Haha. If you look carfully at the vertical railing posts they protrude past the top railing slightly, and thats the top. 

See

Yes a signal light

I didn't notice till the end either. I think there are about 7 up side down railings throughout the ship.  Thank you Mark, if I can trust me, ANYONE can!

It was  so hard to try to get this piece level and straight.  And to try to hold it like that while I glued it. 

but I got it done. 

 Then it was time for the railings. And of course I put them on upside down. 

Exactly Lou, especialy when its like 4am. I could swear I was the only person in the world at the moment. Of course then I had to start the machine again...so loud I couldn't here myself think. 

Popeye, I work for a Dept of public works as a heavy equipment operator. 20 inches here too. 

 CDW, I know what you mean. The beauty stopped me dead in my tracks, I had to take a photo. Then I shut the machine off and it was soo quiet, just the sound of snow falling it was so peaceful.