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Building a USN Port Around a HogIslander

This then allowed me to create overlapping runs, and to replace and re-site the portholes according to the plans and photos. After initial painting, I ran some Tamiya masking tape along the hull at the lower end of the desired porthole positions; these were pricked through with a push-pin along the tape line prior to drilling out with a pin-vice.


At the same time I then opened up the scuppers, and fairlead apertures, all around. . .the hull was taking life now! Due to a CA glue glitch on my part(!) the assembled deckhouse levels did not give me the completely slab-fronted look that the ships had; so I cut a new styrene overlay to smooth the area.



I took the opportunity then to cut in the stairwell apertures, and the inter-deck stanchions. The upper bridge had supports with T brackets; this caused me brief quandary… a quick search through the old PE stash located some larger scale hand drill, when cut down it was perfect in all dimensions.