March 16 2008 | All the parts together

Here are all the cross sections, cut and numeroted.

March 16 2008 | Wire for strength

I want to be able to manipulate the stuff without breaking anything. And it's not gonna be easy, so i used some wire. As the square shaped plastic I have been using is hollow, I will run those wires through it

March 16 2008 | Miliput in the holes

In order for the ties to be stringer , i have been inserting some miliput through them -when drying the assemblies will be really rigid.

Shortly after having taken those pictures, I switched for Duro, as it's softer and definitely less dirty to apply..

March 16 2008 | Assembling the cross sections

Here's what it gives after inserting the wires.

March 17 2008 | Cutting the windows

After all the sections had be glued together, i proceeded to cut out the intact metal plates -both the one that is inwards and the outwards one. I cut out the windows as well as seen here

March 17 2008 | The top part is now completed

I glued the plate to the boat's skeleton and here we have the upper part partly done.
i will have to create the window's sides before being able to glue the other part.
Now I will have to start assembling the lower round part.
After that will stay the harder thing to do: the damaged metal plates.
oh yes and some riveting too!

March 23 2008 | Modeling the bottom of the hull

Here is a small investment I have been doing (cheapo on ebay), a circular cutter which is really very useful to cut out some 1cm+ holes in plastic. Sadly, the thing is that this tool is designed to cut out paper. It won't last long with platsic and then I have to find a supply of blades..
Anyway, here is the hole where the turret will pop out.

March 23 2008 | Seddul-bahr -the masséna's lower hull

 So here I pre-bent the plastic so that it would be easier to glue afterwards