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This part is about my experience with the castings along the side of the hull, this is a standout feature on this model. They eventually ended up looking very impressive, better than I’d first expected and once again I was pleased with what Euromodel had done here especially with old technology.
I first copied the relevant part of the plans to help identify and make sense of the many cast parts. The casting was crisp and very good indeed needing little cleaning. Most of the pieces needed some modification to make them a good fit, on some I needed to cut out the figures from within the casting and fixed them into position separately. Once the fit was established I cut out the necessary gun ports. I found doing all this difficult as the many parts needed to be accurately held in place without glue so that the cutting and filing resulted in a good fit.
That's the good part, now the not so good. I had made the hull as near to the plan as possible, however when I offered up the castings along the waist I saw that they did not match up with the plan by a fair amount! The lower trim of the casting should have lined up with the centre of the gun ports, my castings were not the same as the plans but were too deep by about 5mm and ended up level with the lower edge of the gun ports. It wasn’t possible to reduce their height, I had the choice of putting them on as they were or adding to the height of the hull sides which would really have been a none starter. I prepared and painted them ready to mount, you will see the result in my next post.
I first copied the relevant part of the plans to help identify and make sense of the many cast parts. The casting was crisp and very good indeed needing little cleaning. Most of the pieces needed some modification to make them a good fit, on some I needed to cut out the figures from within the casting and fixed them into position separately. Once the fit was established I cut out the necessary gun ports. I found doing all this difficult as the many parts needed to be accurately held in place without glue so that the cutting and filing resulted in a good fit.
That's the good part, now the not so good. I had made the hull as near to the plan as possible, however when I offered up the castings along the waist I saw that they did not match up with the plan by a fair amount! The lower trim of the casting should have lined up with the centre of the gun ports, my castings were not the same as the plans but were too deep by about 5mm and ended up level with the lower edge of the gun ports. It wasn’t possible to reduce their height, I had the choice of putting them on as they were or adding to the height of the hull sides which would really have been a none starter. I prepared and painted them ready to mount, you will see the result in my next post.