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Building the Oktabriskaya Revolutsia

After a suitable interval of three years maturing in my kit stash.... .the time was right to tackle this challenging build. Having aquired a plethora of reference material to verify/counter the plentiful deck detail on the hull casting I started to pare it all away, but only after the centres of all barbettes, vents, masts etc had been drilled through the hull and labelled to ensure a reasonable starting point after the decking was installed.

In order to portray the crossplanking I made a small sliding jig out of styrene so as to be able to score the Evergreen N-scale car-siding across the 'planking'. I was concerned that the athwartships line effect may be too overpowering when painted--so elected to score only at 2mm intervals.




The cross- scored styrene sheet deck was fitted to the now deadflat smooth pared resin deck and cemented using CA gel.