174 porthole eyebrows, and three days, later . . .
Porthole EyebrowsBefore fitting the torpedo net booms and shelves I needed to fit 176 porthole eyebrows. A long job. The eyebrows divert water away from the top of porthole openings. Brass etchings, each cut from the sheet and teased into a raised lip.
Torpedo netsThese were removed before being taken over by the Royal Navy, along with the over-turrets boat decks and tall topmasts. However, IMO she looked so good with them I have decided to retain them all for this model. ( Also = more detail ! )
Thin hardwood strips added for torpedo net shelves, but before I could do that I had to chisel off the centre fold-down casement doors with a flat Xacto bladed tool. Silly me, when fitting these doors I had not allowed for the rolled netting just below.

The doors will be reaffixed folding down onto net and shelf. Small angle brackets were added under the shelves as reinforcement. ZIP Kicker proved invaluable where the shelf edge had to be formed to follow the hull curve.

There are sixteen and a half support booms each side, for which I will be using 3mm carbon fibre hollow tube. Small brass eyelets with conical beads at the bottom, and wire eyes at the top. The net will be left off until after painting, but I now have the mesh for it. Very fine plastic coated fibreglass mesh for insect protection. Intension is to roll the netting over a thin Perspex rod.
More later . . .