3 hours to do those 5.. hell hell hell :)

Some are looking better than others in that in some thI used too much solder.

Now, comes the real deal, the chained portholes.. the downside part of them runned okay mostly. the problem is that the heat from my solder tended to melt the superglued coated hinges and other details, which revealed really annoying when I started to do the upper parts.

So i tied them with my tool and managed to welf the chains by holding them from above and using gravity so that the tip of the chain could just jointhe right place

Wow, hard thing to do! First the whole must be paralell on both sense, and then I had to add some extra metal on the outside, well pics are telling: looking great, but could have been looking better

Here are the lower part of those portholes, nothing new here..

^{back on the portholes. First the easy ones, the ones without the chains.}

Just needed a few Grandt Line bolts and a bit of fine plasticard to build the support. The small brass hinges are folded using my X-Acto, those were first designed on my photoetch sheet

Of course I had thinned down the tip of those using sandpaper. then to hide the joints of the rolled tape, I basically glued the vertical supports that are getting on the hull.

I was sort of not very looking forward building those tubes because of the places where there are those round support around. So i got the idea of putting some tape that you make packets with on my mat, and then cutting a fine line and rolling it around the plasticard! Well it worked quite well

I sort of realize that the lack of feedback on that SBS could end up being just me writing about things and stuff that nobody could understand except for somebody who knows the Masséna as well as me -even if that actually does not mean much.

Anyway, i will try to model some big stanchions that are tied on each side of the boat, one big stanchion every 4 small ones. it took me some time to understand what they were for, but then some pics like that one gave me the answer: they are here to tie up some big rain/sun tarp on the bridge of the boat. here it is on the Charles Martel battleship.