Jeff59
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You can see more clearly in these photos the point I’m trying to show. Think all these sort of steps would be generically set at the same angle, shows up this way as you can see it lining up with the handrails which is always more pleasing to the eye. Hope you agree.
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Greg it is quite big, a lot of wow factor for £70 kit. Seriously I would buy the whole Battleship in this scale if they were mad enough to go for it. Building it in sections would be quite manageable. Would be good for the likes of a modelling club to tackle. Just living the dream. 😂
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Well that’s it for now, shall need to start work on forward bridge structure and mast, a lot of work in this area so don’t hold your breath. 🤪 Jacqueline also bought me a second Pontos set so l have the parts I need to go forward. Who said us modellers are sane. Here’s a photo of the propeller before I dressed it up.
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The steps to the boat deck, didn’t fold this plus cut a bit styrene stock thick enough to let the steps sit at desired angle then painted the part as deck colour. Not correct but solved the bigger problem, seems to be a similar problem when fitting the other steps from boat deck down to main deck, except here the part is too long and requires altering again to get a desired result. Think I managed to steal all this. 🤞
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The steps from the bridge structure to the boat deck don’t seem to fit right, don’t know if it’s something I’ve done wrong or not but to get them fitting how I want them led me to doctoring them. The stringers on the outside have a tiny fold mark at the bottom allowing for fixing to deck. Photo
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Making these parts takes time and patience, you also have to watch and fit the right parts together and to the right position on ship, this is important for it all to work, that’s when I discovered the cowls were oriented wrongly. So keep an eye on this section. I painted these in batches fitting in place as I saw fit. I did discover that my supper structure that I had fitted previously supporting the boat deck from the hull was very slightly leaning inwards probably by about half a millimetre, this is enough to cause problems so watch for this, I had to lever the boat deck outwards to set the etch parts in place, the ones on the port side dropped in nicely. So advice is to make some of these parts and check this before you fit the hull structures. 👍
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Sorry I forgot to mention the etch steelwork fo supporting the ships boats, do that just now.
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Getting to this stage let me at last fit the rear bridge super structure in place then fit the two ladders from main deck up to bridge structure, the ones mentioned back in stage 2 that don’t have much room for error. Also let me fit the two cowlings, rear deck structure and main mast.
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