Progress seems very slow. I'm presently just working through the kit getting stuff ready for painting and looking for problems, there are a few.
Dotted around the deck are ventilators, the pictures show how they are made. In all cases, the etched brass grill is too long, by a substantial amount. I've got round it by adding a piece of plasti-card to the plastic bit, same shape but 0.5mm smaller and the same thickness as the brass, wrap the brass around the plastic and trim to length, then add the brass "lid".
There is also a yard-arm mounted atop the forward superstructure and another above the funnel on an extension thingy. These would carry aerials and signal flag halyards I think. They're square in section and tapered, 0.3 mm square at the smallest end, I've added some 0.3mm brass rod in the hope it will add some strength, for-ard one done, aft one yet to do.
Haddock.