Finally, Finally,
Got back to the model again..
The build is not dead, far from it.
But you know, family comes first !
My youngest daughter is pregnant again, and in her last weeks. In the pregnancy before this she lost her unborn child in the 34st week, so we keep close.
We pray that this pregnancy will be blessed this time.
And, in between I had to go to India to speak with our contractors. An adventure, to put it mildly.
Back to the model :
I started the 5.25" guns on the port side.
Now, I'm afraid I really could not get the gunbarrels as I wanted them to be.
They just ended up twisted the wrong way. Tried it with other, lighter paper, but this did not work out either.
I do not know what the correct English word is for the Dutch word 'balen' but let me say that I was not amused.
I confess that I took the easy way out: I ordered the gunbarrels from GPM. I know that some of you will have thoughts about that, and maybe you are right. Sorry...
Back to the gunbarrels: it is best to glue the inner wings to the inside of the gunturret before glueing the turret to the carton strenghtenings. Found that out after glueing two of them...
I took the precaution of strenthening the disks to which the barrels are glued with parts of a toothpick (2nd picture). I hope to avoid that the barrels will droop. Seems this works
Before placing the after 5.25" guns, it is best to create the boats and railings around the boat deck first. Otherwise it is hard to get to them later.
So: boats first, railings, then the guns.
Some pictures of the process :