Not terribly exciting but essential. I make rivets using puffy T-shirt paint. This is tedious and slow but rivets are the thing that held ships together, Millions, if not billions, of rivets. Each one heated red-hot and then pounded through the metal and hammered flat to hold the steel sheets together. My method requires far less work and no working with red-hot metal.
this will take quite a while and I will take breaks to make other detail items such as boats, railings, etc
I still need to add the last two tertiary gun ports between the square six-inch gun ports
I am somewhat apprehensive about finishing this model as the U.S.Navy painted their ships white with buff upper structures. White is (to me at least) the hardest color to weather effectively. Darn You Teddy Roosevelt!
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