Lindberg Fletcher Project 6

Showing some details added. I'm still selecting paint. I'll be using non-toxic primer and paints. More on this in future posts. 

Details on turrets. 

Turret detail. I used basswood and sheet styrene. A wood dowel and a spare hatch from a junker model was used to make a torpedo tube blast shield. 

Mast work. The lights are the modified cable reels not used. I think those reels and extra winch were used on the exprimental scout aircraft catapult ships to recover aircraft. Not appropriate to production ships. 

Laying out the hatch covers on styrene. Really small. Cut with sicissors and file to final size. 

Result onboard. Relocated turret captain's blast shield to starboard side. Blast shields were on either side of turrets, never in the center. Which side varied from ship to ship. Some turrets as shown here did not have the blast shield.
 

A dowl glued into place serves as a stiffener for the flimsy main deck. Tacked into place with CA then cemented with waterproof wood glue. 

Stiffener cemented in place. 

Grippy tweezer hack with sandpaper glued to the tips. 

Director turret doors and braces on antenna. 

A small round file can be used to carefully remove material to make the Bofors gunsight more accurate. 

5mm jump rings and sewing thread used to make the gunsight. Wax the thread before attaching to prevent unravelling. 

Sheet styrene looped to form a larger diameter base ring for the 5" guns. Not much of an improvement compared to a full set of really detailed base rings that can be had at Model Monkey for $5. 

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