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Battlecruiser, HMS Queen Mary

Siren platforms on the forward funnel were made of paper, with pipes and sirens being of brass wire...

Next, installing the nickelsilver wire torpedo net booms. These had brackets that held them in place on the hull side which appeared to have a locking bar that went over the boom in some way—I mimicked the photos I had, and made these from RC Cammett vinyl tape secured with a micro-drop of CA at both ends—a sharp result I was pleased with!

I wanted to install the brailing davits for the net. The main feature was perfectly regular spacing and consistent size...difficult aims to achieve perfectly, and the slightest error in distance/inclination or size would be worse than not having them at all. I cut up old and over scale 1/350 handrails, using the railing joint ' ball' as the pulley block--when bent around by 90 degrees it gave a fair impression of the item but more importantly to me was totally repeatable in size and spacing!




Torpedo nets were supplied with the kit, however after study of photos I felt that the supplied cord was too thick and regular in appearance-so I used a button cord partially unraveled, then soaked in CA and then painted with PVA--the overall effect is quite pleasing!

The anchor chain was a Model Railway item, passing through the drilled hawse pipes, to the fine kit supplied PE anchors--with the capstans being made of N-scale brass buffers topped with some fine PE brass circles from L'Arsenal. The check chains were made of some old WEM PE chain.