Today I began to add the decks. The kit decks, when compared with the plans I have, are shown to be utter fiction. All the cargo hatches are misplaced, a great deal of detail appears to be simply made up, and all the rest of it is just crude. So I figured it would be much easier to simply replace the decks outright instead of attempting to correct the kit parts. I cut off the mounting tabs and traced the decks onto scrap .040 Styrene sheets. I cut them out using a new X-acto knife blade, sanded the edges smooth and glued them to the hull. They fit fairly well, but there will be some filling and reshaping to do, particularly at the bow, where the thick bulwark causes shape issues. More on this later.
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- Deck traced onto sheet plastic
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- Deck cut out and sanded smooth around the edges
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- Test fitting the new deck…
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- And both decks cut and glued into place
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