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(1) The kit was missing a piece for one of the 33 Gun Deck cannons (I swear I didn't lose it! and yes I know

there are only 32 on the gun deck and one topside). Anyway, I started with 32.5 cannons.

 

(2) Gluing... there is a pin-and-hole arrangement which are suppose to align the two halves. However, in

many cases they misaligned the halves. I glued several together this way before deciding to just cut off the

pin and align the halves myself.

 

(3) Painting...I massively FUBAR'd some of the first cannons I painted. It took me probably 6 cannons

before I figured out how to paint them.

 

(4) Un-painting... I decided to use some brush cleaner and wipe off the botched paint job on my first 6

cannons... to my HORROR, the brush cleaner started to melt the plastic and broke off one of the trunions!!

 

(5) Re-painting: I repainted the 3 cannons I doused with brush cleaner, they still look crappy. I put a secondcoat

of black on the other 3...they too look crappy.

 

(6) Conclusion: I will hide the crappy cannons on one side of the ship.

 

The photo below shows the difference between the 'good' (right) and 'bad' (left) cannons (sorry for photo

quality because it really doesn't show how badly I painted the (left) cannon). Note on the left cannon how

the paint fills in the area between the knob and the base of the breech... its suppose to be round but mine

forms a 45 degree angle...  oh well.... what to do. Any suggestions??

 

i also have 32.5 cannons