Things are moving on apace. Having finished the main guns I moved on to the secondary and tertiary gun positions. The Atlanta is an unusual ship with an odd layout in many ways, the secondary guns are in a battery firing through gun-ports much in the manner of wooden ships of the line. The tertiary guns are in peculiar little towers positions at the corners of the superstructure. These battery positions were closed with shutters that folded outward to allow the guns to rotate and bear on targets.
we saw the cylinders that are the gatling towers in my last post,
they had to be cut to fit the curved superstructure,
I probably should have made a template or something,
as it was I started just trimming here and there until it fit
fortunately things worked out
the bottle to the right is puffy T-shirt paint, this is my source of rivets
the top of the tower was reinforced with a strip of index card
then it was time to make the gun-ports for the secondary battery
this took a couple of tries before I got it right
once they were folded up it all worked out nicely
I just had to make four of them
the hull awaiting the secondary battery to be installed
the current state of play
I have already started on applying rivets, but that is going to be a lengthy process. There is one more tertiary battery position that I need to install before I can get started on boats and davits. Once those are sorted masts and ventilator hoods will follow. As the original had ratlines I might just be tempted to make them as well....
No comments:
Post a Comment