atam this is going to sit on shelf in the living room, when i die it will be donated most like to the maritime museum in Oswego on Lake Ontario.
Homestly this build is faster so far than either Rodney or Sharnhorst.
Papa, I buy Tom's 1/192 rails but have decided to use up my stock of paper rails on her. They will paint white better and I will be able to glue a brown rail cover on them better. Plus they are 4-bar rails. Tom's only carries the deck chairs and fittings in 1/350 scale so paper chairs will be the order of the day. I built a few for the covered decks and they look OK.
I did add clear plasic from a report jacket on all the bridge windows and the large rectangular hull side windows, and the glare is good when the lighting is right, can't seem to capture them with the camara, otherwise you can see right thru them.
I will make my rails for Yubari, i typically build all guns 5 inch and less. Yubari has 6 inchers but I will make from some tapered clock pins and thin copy paper. At 6" the hollow tip is only visible up real close.
No work tonight SU is preparing to blow another basketball game I can't miss it.
Being a Buffalo Bills and SU Orange fan seems to leave me very frustrated so I take it out by building and building. Oh well.