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Building the Oktabriskaya Revolutsia

The aft superstructure was constructed partly from kit parts and new deck shapes cut of styrene sheet, as the kit parts did not match any of my drawings or photos. The main mast and crane apertures were drilled through the different levels in situ whilst checking for square. The holes were drilled somewhat oversize to allow for final setting up of verticals, the holes being backfilled with white glue .

The entire structure again has prominent extenal stairs with intermediate platfoms, these were tricky to locate and make work feasibly in a prototypical manner, due in the main to their minute size and fragility

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The craneleg bases were made of alloy tubing , the slightly convex tops being made with 3 layers of white glue-I find the selflevelling properties of this material to be immensly useful in 1/700 modelmaking.



The main weakness with HP kits sadly is the total lack of any Photoetch parts, even when major components would lend themselves perfectly to this medium. The main stumbling block in this build would have been the huge distinctive girder cranes. These were supplied as a resin casting, which were broadly the right outline shape but alas a solid chunk of resin!