Then i cut a platic striped the same height as the upper section and glued it inside the hole and recovered the whole with some Magic Sculp (look at the picture).
Well I am quite late for this blog, The next instalment will be on friday :)
And thanks Charles!

Then i used a small saw to cut the right portion to be embeded in the hull and fixed it using superglue.

Ah well, on my original plans I had overlook some big bubble on the top of the hull which is the place where one 100mm gun (5 inches?) gun was fixed. So well, here i vacuformed the place using a light bulb of the right dimensions!
Now will I make the gun itself?
Well no.
Simply because there is no reference at all findable!! I have been asking in french forums but they proved to be an almost desert. I can't believe the amount of stuff I have on pre 1917 russian stuff compare to the scarcity of the french stuff.
Curse the French.

Despite my relative silence there, I have been doing giant steps on the diorama.
Here I can introduce the rear half of the upper hull -done out of voluntary failed photoetch, so that i copuld have some weird textures. And then why photoetch?
Well i needed some small rivits holes evenly spaced on some places to help the painting later. You can't beat ciomputer to align stuff properly so thgis is what i have been doing :)

JBA, looking good! C.

Not too bad. I think this week I will work on mounting these frets as well as disigning those for the main gun and the big crane.

or whatever they say in English for those doors :)

....And here is the set I finally done! As you can see it is fine enough!
there is seven portholes on my bit of Masséna..