November 25 2008 | The gun support

As you can see I also added some plastic brown rivets courtesy of Mr Dave O'Meara at the top of the gun support.
i will soon enough start with detailing the 128.4mm gun itself!

December 04 2008 | The spring

Time to do the sort of spring that is under the gun itself, there is 2 of them.
I just used a length of plastic rod and put some thin solder around just a shown..

December 04 2008 | The lack of depth of Photoetch

The problem with photoetch is that it lacks of depth so once more I put some Magic sculp  on the inside of one of my parts to get this -depth.
I let dry a bit and cut it around.

December 04 2008 | The gun system

So here is without details the block that will be under the gun

December 04 2008 | Once glued..

here is quite an impressive (okay, I think..) view of the turret.
Now of course most details are missing, and the reference is scarce to say the least

December 04 2008 | New Photoetch

yep i was rather unhappy with the photoetch of the portholes and then I will have to do, some more for the gun, so i thought - better do everything in one go.
First here is the photoetch for massénas' portholes!

December 04 2008 | Straight from the filtering...

Here are the small pieces!

December 11 2008 | Some new plates

Here are the plates for the portholes -all the small pieces, enough to detail the portholes.