After finishing of the gratings for the upper deck I glued them onto the deck. The printed borders were a little bit to big and I made some little frames to cover this failure.
Before working on with the decks I had to make the channels, because for the mounting of them it is also necessary to reach the backside of the side parts. But first of all I must try out the mounting of the channel chain. For this reason I made a little tool of paper card (soaked with CA glue) to try out the smallest bullseye (in original it is 6" - in model I make it 2,5 mm).
First I use a piece of 0,4 mm wire.
I bent it around the circular piece of cardboard and pressed it with a small flat pliers. One side of the wire was cut to the final dimension.
The other side of the wire was pressed also with the flat pliers against the bar.
Cut it to length of the other end and did a final forming.
The gap was tin soldered.
Two pieces of cardboard (thickness 0,4 mm) were punched with different tools (one with a diameter of 2 mm / one with a diameter of 2,5 mm). The different tools create different results (chamfer).
Another simple tool was helpful to glue both of the slices together in a concentric way.
Now I put the chain link to the dishes and glue another disc (2,5 mm) to them using CA glue to connect all together.
A third tool fixed the bullseye in a depression ...
... and on the other side of the tool there are three holes as a drilling gauge for the bullseye.
After drilling with 0,5 mm it looks like this.
Painted black and with a soft bending ...
... the bullseye with a chain link was inserted into the channel.
Next time I will show you how I made the channels and how I made a stable connection with the hull.
Josef