Things progress slowly at the moment, I've ordered a small fortune in various carbon fibre round, flat and square to build the main mast STIR and CAS platforms. Ive ordered some Ice fishing rod blanks for the 6 HF aerials, The 76 mm OTO Melara gun and liferaft canisrers are on their way form APS models. I'm still waiting for the couplings for the main shaft.
So while I'm waiting for these things I started on the 02 deck handrails, no pics yet, I've only made about 30 scale feet in 2 days not including the ones I stuffed up due to isometric drawings ) I started out with some copper 6mm cable that has 7 strands of approx .8mm diameter cable, It is just slightly over scale I believe.
I stripped the cores then straightened them, I made a semi jig to space the rails from plywood with groves cut at the required spacing, FFG's dont have one continues rail, its split into sections so as to be removable or folded down for gunnery etc so far the longest portion is 4 verticals long, and each piece has different lengths between verticals.
Nick