Yes Trevor go for it - and add a nice deck gun. Which navy?
Dave
Well having blown the dust off it was apparent that the superstructure had suffered more than just a little bit of 'shed rash' and so the best move there was to convert in into heat via the log-burner and start again. That's one advantage of working in wood!
Anyway after a couple of evenings work my Springer has got a new superstructure which I hope looks suitably 'cartoonish' as befitting a submarine tug .
Don't laugh too loudly at the AA armament because I know the absolute square root of nothing about naval weaponry so it's - a bit heavy duty maybe- sort of an Oerlikon on steroids.
A submarine has absolutely got to have torpedo tubes even if it is tug in disguise, and so a cling film roll provided the tubes for those, a really hard and strong cardboard which should be suitably waterproof once soaked in varnish.
A sub needs a periscope even one that doesn't dive - - - well I hope that it won't, though folk have told me that Springers can poke the nose down when going briskly.
Next will be a few bits of bridge equipment, a compass at least.
Trevor