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Tsarist Battleship Andrei Pervozvanny

The Andrei Parvozvanny was unusual in having only two searchlights-these were however mounted on a wheeled dollies and moved athwart-ships on curved rail-tracks-one each fwd and aft.


I made the tracks by stretching sprue and bedding it in brushed-on thinned matt varnish; this allowed me to position the sprue so that the tracks were parallel and ( mostly!) symmetrical

Once the railings had been installed the remainder of the build proceeded smoothly and without any real problems. I chose to add the sounding platforms later-these were made as open rectangles of railing glued on, then the existing railing was cut away and lastly the 'floor' of the platform was created with the surface tension of thinned white glue spanning the gap between the railings and hull sides.


When dry, this was painted from underneath resulting in very neat color demarcation twixt rail and floor.




Anchor chain was installed into the drilled out hawse pipes, and check-chain/cable-stopper were made of black stretched sprue.