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Battlecruiser, HMS Queen Mary

The railings were filled with white glue and the structure placed on the ship- styrene filler plates were inserted to make the aft edge flush with the base according to the photos and plans I had...

All the cast doors had been carved off and replaced with PE items all over the entire model. The supplied PE blast plates needed a little fettling to get them to sit flush and fair atop the resin bases.




At this stage the hull was showing signs of slight warp age fore and aft... I nipped this tendency in the bud immediately by affixing the hull to a 3mm stainless steel, with stainless steel countersunk screws, into pre-drilled holes in the underside.




I periodically removed the hull for working on when rotation or access was required to undersides of platforms, but always screwed it back onto its metal base between work sessions
The solid funnels had their centers drilled out--care was needed here to prevent distortion being caused by heat build-up from the cutting tool.