:angel:Hi everyone,
as I was a good lad this past year, the Birthday fairy gave me a RTTL Vosper kit.
I had told my partner I'd like this and since the tragic demise of the Airfix lifeboat ( no thanks to the cat!)
and this seemed to fit the bill as my current Bismarck build has a fittings launch sometime in latter next year.
So having never done a kit of this calibre I started.
Luckily, there had been a kit review by Terry Small in Modelboats a few months ago. So armed with the plans, instructions and kit set out.
I started having some issues with the instructions, ie. claritry of drawings, both plans and instructions, typos in the instructions and illustrations of mouldings.
I approached Modelslipways and they said it was not a kit for beginners and spoke to me via email in a business like fashion, as they do. Not wanting to be dismayed I plunged on rereading and rereading, driving the missus nuts, oh and threw the cat out.
Sooo... I still have concerns about the mouldings, the following photos illustrates my concerns.
The first photo shows the mould for the superstructure I received.
This I cut as per instructions, photo 2and 3.
And yet, mine looks different from the photo from the article, photo 3.
There is a ridge around the base of my moulding , but not Terry's
Anyone doing this kit that would want to inform me clearly what I am suppose to do with this, as there is trim to fgo around the perimeter and I do not want to take too much off.
It has always been my understanding that the customer keeps your livelihood, and should be treated with the utmost respect, ergo, you keep their custom.
Lovely day isn't it
REM