Cought an annoying cold yesterday, only a matter of time with a lot of sick colleagues coughing away. This update concerns the paravane platforms. Looking like chained torpedoes, they actually serve mine clearing purposes. Some imagery on Wikipedia shows how that was done:
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https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Paravane_on_USS_Texas.jpg, a paravane seen from close up on USS Texas. Perforated struts, hydrodynamic surfaces and cable cutter are provided in the WEm set:
They were located above the ship's stabilising blisters. The galleries are upgraded by WEM but there is a deviation, at first unexplainable.
Having first taken on the port gallery, the plied part compared to the kitpart and a conveniently scaled reference picture, the triangular ship ladder reinforcement has decreased in size, putting the entire gallery on the same level. I already removed the locator edge on the hull but was subjected to fitting problems with doors on both sides of the ladder. Both the kitpart and the PE executing the ramp as smooth, I first replaced the Pe ramp with a larger one, correcting the level issue.
At starboard the cause of the deviation became clear.
Here the mirrored part of the port gallery was included in the PE set. It had no locator holes for the heavy girders rising from the hull, cutting up the railing. I suppose they wanted to prevent a misalignment of the gallery with the island superstructure mounted later on. Lifting the gallery level suppresses this problem but in my opinion it doesn't weigh up against the door level fitting problems.
After mounting the correct part of the gallery, I marked the girder locations on the part.
Having studied more pictures, I was able to ascertain that the ramp on the back ladder was not smooth but stepped. I had spare steps from the unused front galleries and included these here. People building an early version CVL will be unable to solve it this way.
Cutting up the plank edge means you also have to divide the railing part. Luckily it had the stanchion locations just right. I added a third cut near the extension.
On the other side I removed the plastic walkway with a loose Airwaves sawblade. Ideal to saw hard-to-reach objects, but it's a bit tedious. Also painful if the fret connections are jagged...
De paravane aan stuurboordzijde is al gemonteerd.
De valreep aan een zijde is in de romp gegoten, dit is perfect weg te halen met een Airwaves-zaagje zonder de steel.