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Building the Vnimatelni Torpedo Boat

To allow some of the lower hull to be seen I added a thin piece of styrene sheet and sanded to the appropriate shape. This was then painted anti fouling color, and the hull mounted in a wave pattern of white glue.






The kit supplied funnels at first made a good impression but careful study of plans and photos suggested they may be a little thick this was compounded by needing to get 3 coats of paint on to achieve density as well as steam pipes on the funnels. So despite having cemented them to the deck I decided to remove them and install replacements made of brass tubing; these had a groove cut into them with a tube cutter to assist painting the color separation between the black and yellow.



The 11 pdr platform mounted atop the conning tower was supplied as a resin item, cast onto a wafer of varying thickness. . I attempted ( unsuccessfully!) to sand this evenly to a near scale thickness. but it collapsed immediately prior to success... I made a new platform base using a PE funnel cap from the WEM Askold set, in-filled the gaps with CA .



I then added two bar GMM Gold-plus railing this was partially infilled with white glue to simulate the part splinter shield/railing combination. The searchlight platform was made in a similar manner, the searchlight itself was made of stretched sprue and the supporting bracket of PE railing scrap bent to shape.