Moving on. This time I’m sorting the holes in the bulwarks for the scuppers. As originally built, and as supplied in the kit, this tug had scupper doors on all the openings. I guess that was the style of the time I suppose. The picture of the prototype shown above in this thread, shows the scuppers rearranged and the size of the openings modified. Just to be different I elected to build mine in this later configuration. First off, mark out the center line of the scupper openings as per the drawings. Using the center lines as a guide, mark out the full width of the scupper openings. You’ll notice from the photo of the prototype that only two scuppers have full height openings. Mark the height of these two, and mark the shorter openings half that height. Using a 1/16 drill, drill a series of holes around the perimeter of the scupper openings being sure not to cross the line and take out more of the bulwark than you intended. With this done, you can either use a round file, followed up by a flat file to clean out the openings nice and square, or you can move things along a bit with the use of a Dremel, or similar, tool. I started with the later and finished with the former. The drawings don’t show bulwark braces or rib extensions for same. I thought I’d add these as they are a bit of obvious detail on a vessel of this vintage. I started by cutting out strips of styrene about .090 wide (just because I had it to hand). These were cut the height of the bulwark. I cut enough to space out the supports about 6 scale feet around the perimeter of the bulwarks. T o fasten them to the bulwarks I used CA (cyano) as a glue. When they were set up, I took ¼” x .020” styrene strips and cut them into angles. These were glued with styrene cement to the previously installed uprights. It takes a little while to do, but I think the effect is worth it. John