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 ...
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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! )
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the results are quite satisfactory--
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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...!
viewtopic.php?f=59&t=155672Installed on the ship- I think they will look the part...
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more soon!
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