Thank you all for your kind words!
the Christmas period has been busy with family, eating, parties and classic car meetings...
I have been busy with the model also...--though it seems mostly in a preparatory fashion
and the usual bore of removing resin things, and re-making things to be better.
If anything the ( new ) hull casting looked like it had suffered war damage !
chunks of resin removed, bits off, broken and quite qa lot of filler etc
some photos of this shortly...
In the meantime ...
...The early version of the ship--with the "zig zag " seating ( and the above mentioned lamps)
My casting of this deck was not all that flat , bathing in hot water and heating made it flatter, but still not that good.
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I also did still not much like the seating, as the casting on the undercuts was a bit lumpy
and in any case the seating would make the fitting of the paper deck rather more challenging (!!)
hence off they came...
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I planned to re-mount the seating on the new deck coverings on styrene strip plinths to regain some sharpness
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but cut around and clean up as I wanted--they did not look quite sharp enough .
( more precisely I could not get them sharp enough
Most models of this ship in this fit , even in in much larger scales, always seem to depict the seating in too lumpy a fashion
So I had some replacements 3_D printed!
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meanwhile-- the upper hull casting ....
Disclaimer! ( in my opinion)
==> by my observations of port-hole heights versus red line versus
waterline and measurements off a scaled plan
appears to have been separated from its lower hull casting at the top of the red boot-top line
hence ==> as a waterline ship using the upper hull casting as the WATERLINE-- the model would be too low
( I believe) ...
no problem with a full hull
I also wish to depict the ship at speed -- so wish to show some underwater flashes in the water troughs
hence I added a surround of block strip styrene around the entire bottom of the hull and sanded this to the correct shape and profile as a continuation
of the hull shape
( a surprisingly large amount of work and not as easy as it seemed at first sight ( undercuts and bow hollows) (!)
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having opened up carefully cleaned and squared the stern galleries
( while trying to devise a way of thinning the wall thickness's whilst retaining structural integrity aft
( no answer yet ! )
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and been rather bothered by the large amount of 3 D printing lines left behind
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which are the very devil to clean up in this kind of area
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