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Looks to be going real smooth. Your doors turned out rather good

love the way it turned out to be, Igor. Well done!!!

She's filling up nicely, very crisp details

making th drawings is most of the work though, well done

you have been very busy. Did you etch the brass yourself or has that been done elsewhere? glasing looks marvelous. You are getting very skilled at those miniatures

Is that what you're doin' ... I thought you to be a porthole piercer  

Looks like you got that one in hand. So, what's your next problem  

To those who gave likes, thank you and thanks for stopping by.
 
Well Lou, it looks like your pre-emptive and massive porthole strike created so much shock and awe that no one else is coming forward.  You are the porthole king.
 
Carl, I’ll be piercing portholes a while longer.  Hang in there, and thanks for staying around.
 
Roger, thank you for your very kind comment.  If I had 10% of the skill of the real scratch builders I’d be very happy indeed.
 
Bill, thank you for your suggestions.  Strips for glazing could be a challenge in this build because of all the support angles, door recesses, bulkhead stiffeners and such.  The light block is a good idea but it would have to be coordinated with the removable deck units and installed in such a way that it would have stiffness and structure when  the decks were out.  Perhaps not on this build but I will keep it in mind for future work.

Almost portholed myself into a corner.  After using up the kit sheet, I finished the glazing with the acetate sheet from the art supply store.  The kit sheet had a colored protector sheet to peel off one side.  When I started with the new sheet it didn’t occur to me that it might have a protector sheet on both sides.  I was about four portholes into it when I looked closely at the sheet edge and noticed the telltale extra lines on either side.  Sure enough, when I poked at one of the installed pieces of new sheet it popped right off since the CA didn’t adhere to the cover.  The good news was that the other three popped right off too.  After removing both protector sheets the remaining glazing stuck well and was finished up in sort of short order.
 
I started on the wing dodgers - tricky bits that follow a tight compound curve, must be held tight to the bridge wall, and must be glued flush with the bottom edge of the bridge deck.  After  wrestling with the first one I realized that if I ran hot water over the second one it became very flexible.  So I bent it into a tight curve, taped it and let it sit overnight.  The forming made it easier to fit and progressively glue the second dodger.
Using my experience with the main foredeck bulwarks, the dodger bulwarks went smoothly.  I found that if the deck to “wall” is not perfectly 90 degrees, a tiny angled slice across the bottom of the bulwark triangle puts the two legs flush to the deck and wall.
A view of progress on the dodgers and doors.  Rightly or wrongly, I’m considering the double doors into the personnel cabin areas to be of a different type than the watertight doors at the utility and control rooms.

Along with the dodger bulwarks I had to add a few at the forward end wall of the boat deck.

I installed the sunshade over the bridge portholes after filing a small groove along the bridge wall to top deck intersection.  If anyone has any suggestions for supports under the sunshade, or blocking to strengthen the joint please chime in.
 
The top two decks are getting closer to gluing together, after more painting is done.  I had to add some additional strips along the underside of the top deck to align the glue surface with the bottom edge of the bridge cabin walls.  The joint between the top and bridge decks needs to be strong since they are removed and replaced as a unit when servicing the RC bits.

wishful thinking ...

Job well done Marcus. You can be proud!

Linseed oil I presume?
 
It does give her a very pleasing colour, Kortes

I really like those extra details you added with your carvings. Very sharp too

Thank you, Kortes. It is a delight to follow your build!

Kortes,
Marvelous metal and wood work on those leeboards

it seems for some most of life is defined as a contest, others just like pleasing lines ... a certain flow. I particularly like the cabin's roof as it breaks the rigid lines of the caulked planks

very impressive

Very clear, thank you Kortes

magnificent ...
 
How did you attach the hinges, Kortes?

lost for words ...

You are wel versed in metalwork, especially at the scale you work it is stunning
 
( Shootoverloop  = schootoverloop)

BOTH!

Yes, "slave" labour

Thought you would ... spread it out ... Another holiday!? It seems I keep on postponing any advance on Seydlitz. Just finished a 60 hr working week. My hands seem to miss the immovability require for the job at present. Very frustrating, as I would like to finish the RCN Destroyer too.

When possible I painted them on the sprue, or if I'm lucky, the attachement holes for the cables to the davits. On BlueTack I find it a pain: Needs painting twice to cover primer, and after that for the colour. Next time I'll try stickin' a sewing pin in the bottom 

Nope, your hook would get stuck in the netting.
 
Pictures make things even more complicated with the torpedo nettings, Greg ... I really am curious as how you will tackle this problem