Thanks for the kind words guy's. I keep telling myself not to take on any thing this big again. So why do I keep going over to the scale shipyard web site, looking at 1/48th scale fletcher class destroyers? Stan, a couple of more pictures for you. I have sprayed the deck with a semtex coloured paint, that came out a bit shiny, so I will blow some matt varnish over it next. Started painting the super structure, a lot of masking up and fiddling around there, but worth it. I have started to solder the James Lane stanchions together, this will make them nice and strong, the hand rails on models all ways seem to get damaged first. Any way, I wont rattle on to much. Thanks again. PHIL