After putting the secondary gun turrets together started to mess around with railings on the turrets found sun wire thin enough not to look out of place turned not to bad but close up not brill need more work and les solder one thing the wood base fixed it in place but had to get it off again as sum of the pins for the railings went through the hole’s and would not cum out no matter how much I shuck the dam thing. The aerial’s that came with the kit needed a bit of work on them they looked ok but a bit too much solder on them and not too good it was only on one side and not all the way round. This was put right by covering them in flux holding them fast on a flat surface and with a hot soldering iron so it spreads around and some of the solder can be taken of

still at it but the boss thought it was time to paint the flat so not bin abel to do a lot the vidio cam will on longer talk to my computers so have to fix that or get a new cam corder will be back shortly

Yes still hear had it built once but she was way to top heavy had her on the water but was far to choppy and with one I.C boat flying round should not have tried to put it on the water but ha ho she capsized lost one main gun and one secondary gun just the saltiest bit of water in her was enough to disrupt steering sending her over so now I am going to strip away a lot of the later armament and send her back in time to 1941 and see if that will help it will still be a faire weather ship still no cam for pics as yet hope to get new from santer all i can say is the first sailing was

on about solder have you ever tried solder past it makes a neat job a quick heat with a small gas soilder iron flame just brush it on the seams and heat very little needed

Well so did i but had to have a go and with a lot of the weight go should be ok so keep your fingers crossed is fine in bath it was not the best day to try her a bit choppy and an champion I.C racer on the water lost steerage and instead of getting the rescue boat tried to bring it in under power just waiting for wind to drop to go fishing for guns with big magnet gun barrels are magnetic If unlucky will have to order more will be out as wind drops and have mate on hand to vid a successful sail