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Building the Oktabriskaya Revolutsia

The upper tapered bridge tower from the kit was very good and was used but supplemented with various small styrene additions. I needed to make a correctly shaped upper platform, the thereof 'wall' was made of thin brass ( PE scrap), the wall being painted on the inside first, then the deck was made by infilling the hole with white glue.



When dry it becomes transparent , so therefore the underside of the 'floor' was painted, hence giving a perfect colour demarcation twixt deck and wall. The under platform braces were made using triangular pieces of paper

Paper was again used for the end of platform/funnel joint sheeting, this required a few tries to get right, the photo shows the first (undersized!) template.



Paper was used again for the 'false wall' alongside the lower conning tower, with the stair aperture within. The funnel base inspection hatches were made of brass PE scrap, these were removed and re-applied after I had seen this photo!!