Thank you Timmy and Nicolas
I love the "poetic" very much, big extra thanks.
So the next quantum leap, means lot of work for shortest distance possible
Next were the gunport lid topping lifts. A blackened 0,3 mm copper wire wound around a 1 mm needle and cut into rings.
For the next steps I skipped the tweezers and used fine pliers from the electro department, thus reducing the free flights of the parts enormously !
After some tests I did like follow: As the thread was to thin to do a real splice, I held the ring with the pliers ...
... some CA in the U-turn of the tread and twisted counter clockwise ...
.. to get a well enough splice imitation.
Then positiond the ring, hooked in ...
... closed with the pliers ...
... and the lift is in place
The original idea was to imitate the small tube that enters the hull with diluted PVA but now I wanted to try something more tricky.
Some time ago I already presented the trick, that heated and pulled sprue keeps the proportion of its section. So I prepared a 4 mm sprue by drilling a center hole of 2 mm, fixed toothpicks on its ends ...
... and slowly heated it up and pulled to the wanted diameter ...
... then cut 3 mm pieces and fiddeld them on a 0,1 mm copper wire to avoid unwanted escapes. In the front the test topping lift.
Then drilled 0,7 mm holes for the tubes pointing 45� upwards, inserted the tubes, glued them in and cut them to the necessary length ...
... used a needle to reopen the squeezed holes, put the lift in and glued it by fixing with the needle.
And it looks like this:
With a little more practice it will for shure look even tidier macro wise, but for the naked eye it already works
Cheers, Daniel