I've been steadily plugging away for the last 2 weeks and I've ended up going around in a big circle and pretty much ending up exactly where I was at the last update.
Last time I posted an update the superstructure was 95% completed and waiting for glazing.
On any build I hate making the nav lights (don't know why, but they bug me), but I dread glazing the windows. It's a delicate job than can make or break a model: fogged or scuffed windows, glue marks, and badly aligned frames can all ruin your day.
I usually (always) glaze the wheelhouse before attaching the roof. This time I put the roof on first. Well, there was a reason – the funnel top is built into the cabin roof, and I thought that I could glaze through the widows and open doors – at 1/32 they are much bigger than my normal 1/50 builds.
No such luck. I spent the best part of 3 days getting nowhere. Tried every trick in the book to no avail. Lots of bad language ensued.
Eventually I gave up and cut the roof off. This caused a bit of collateral damage: knocked off the bitt, engineroom vents, and all the ventilators, and damaged the funnel top, and paintwork in general.
It needed quite a bit of reworking but did make the glazing a breeze. The 'glass' slots into the PE brass frame from behind – there's a 0.5mm rebate for it
All good now, and everything is back in place, filled, tidied up and repainted. After a few large gins the stress levels have subsided.