Jylland by kruginmi - Billings Boats - 1:100

[Keith Black]

 Laying out the deck furniture is one of those milestones in a ships build. Looks great, Mark. 

[kruginmi]

One of the reasons you do these trial setups is to verify.  Well, I was pondering the picture I took and suddenly realized something was very 'odd.'   The height of the supplied binnacles was way too large.  They measured 3/4".  In 1-100 scale this equates to over 6 feet tall.  Well, I guess I am replacing those after all (the kit strikes again haha).    As these were very different in design on the actual ship I had been going this way regardless.

I need to make some scale figure stand ins so these type of errors jump out immediately.  That will also help with the ladders to be made.

 

Since I am doing an update I also wanted to provide the kit provided deck furniture verse what I came up.

Given the age of the kit this did not surprise me.  Reminds me of the numerous balsa wood kit airplanes I built in the 70's.  Big difference is now I have access to other sources of wood and skills to use them.

 

Now to figure out how best to make skylights for this scale.

Mark