Congratulations Nick! It was great to be of service. I suggest we sail to the Med next time, in place of the Arctic. Brrr!
Agreed, it was colder than I thought it was but suppose the ice was a dead give away! At least the hull is the right colour for the China Station!
Hi Bob
You certainly missed the big launch, but the embarrassing mishap with the port prop shaft got more embarrassing... the coupling was not spinning, the lock nut was not tight and the shaft had unwound off the coupling!
Today and last night I decided to look at the drawings again and realised that the 3pdr gun ports in the hull on the earlier Majestic's were a different shape compared to the later Hannibal, Illustrious and Caesar,etc.
I filed off the the moulded in detail (sorry Ron)- I did try to change the shape with a file but made such a mess of it I decided to replace them all with litho-plate sheet!
At least I can use the etched brass hinges from the kit, there is a lot of them!
I finished off the toilet waste chutes on the starboard side using 4mm square plastic strut and some 0.1mm plastic sheet.
And finally the steps/ladder blocks on the hull are being started again, I had to buy to some very fine tweezers to hold the tiny 0.5mm square and 0.25x0.75mm plastic strut, I have to stop after 6 steps are made to stop me going cross-eyed!
P.S. Thanks Steve, hope you are enjoying the build as much as I am!
A better image of the mighty un-painted battleship HMS Prince George, thanks to Paul Millers aka Chuffy for the picture.