Hi Folks.
Back in harness after a week or so of sitting doing nothing,( a very unwelcome and unexplained MG episode left me unable to hold even a tea spoon, and seeing double for good measure!). All gone now and with the Goddess of perceived progress winking at me I have charged ahead and completed the hull ready for installing the sub deck. The making, fitting and 'glazing' of the brass scuttles being the last and trickiest job to do. The scuttles I made from 6mm x 0.5mm brass tube that I 'sliced' to 0.7mm thick with a ground down parting tool on my lathe. After fitting I, using the minimum amount of low viscosity super glue, attached some discs of 0.5mm clear pvc sheet to the inside. I am still in two minds as to leave them see through or cover with dead lights as I originally planed, my thinking being that hull scuttles where always covered in ships of war when at sea but after looking at photographs of corvettes at sea showing uncovered I am not so sure.
Hull painting; from the one photograph I have of Picotee she seems to still wares the glossy paint of pre-war Royal Navy, most likely something like 507b grey. It was never as regulated as you might think. Again the anti-foul could be black, grey or red. I like black best so I will run with that until I know better. The boot topping is usually glossy black. For the grey I used flat finish dark sea grey followed by a semi-gloss clear, all over Vallejo primer surfacer black. Despite washing the hull and wiping down with white spirit I must say I am not over the moon about the adhesion of the p.s.. For that reason I will not try to mask of the water line for a few days, and keep my fingers crossed.
Again to fill the gaps I painted up one of the carley rafts, adding some paddles and bits.
Not much by way of pics. but here they are.
