Thank you !-
the minutia is taking its time...
The 2 large stocked anchors--reminiscent of old large sailing ships-of-the-line...
Among many omissions and inaccuracies in the kit, the resin anchors were commendably good - fragile- and very nice--
apart from being about 25% overscale!!
Making my own replacements took its time...
Made of wire- with styrene timber stock with paper flukes
very fiddly and a number of failures all over the floor... (!!!! )
despite the over-scale chain ( which is already very small!
) the result
does kind of look the part
I also made new fair-leads-- after cutting away the oversize resin versions
by using some coarse old PE ladder, cutting away the rung and bending the sides in ...
The fwd davits were controlled via (wire?) ropes via pulleys on the main mast as well as a dedicated 'pulley mast '
the pulley sheaves appear in photos to have been mounted in a sheave cage
I made these using pieces of 1/350 stud-link chain( WEM Koenig) , squeezing them up and installing a brass circle disc (PE aircraft wheel )
sounds easy-- alas ... the mountain of failures littering the bench was quite impressive( in a miniature way! )
the results are quite satisfactory--
though they rather put my figure modelling skills to shame-- must spend ( yet) more time on the crew--inspired by Marjin in his Lexington story...!
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Installed on the ship- I think they will look the part...
more soon!