Hi chaps.
Contributing to Joe's thread on stanchions etc and thinking ahead to when I need to fit them to my fleet, I wonder if anyone has fitted theirs folded down for action?
An image of HMS M21 shows the folded down which while not the tidiest of displays, at least shows her in action.
Now, most if not all stanchions wether they be etched brass, turned brass, formed wire or other, are sold as set up, so any attempt to create folded railings would have to be scratch built or modified.
The main 'con' I can see for having them folded down is as for anti torpedo nets, where any impact on the side or scrape against the pond edge may remove lots of stanchions and rail, but there must be ways of strengthening and/or reducing this possibility?
Ian:O)