Nearly a disaster here folks. I thought it would be a good idea to fit a piece of sprue to the antenna assembly, something to get hold of for painting and adding railings and ladders.
Worked fine for building the assembly, made life a lot easier, the I realized that the hole I'd fitted the sprue into was meant to accept the spigot on the next level down. The sprue is glued in place with Revell Contacta,
nice strong joint, so removing it was out of the question.
You can see the "engineering" solution.
In pic no1 we have parts 1 and 2, sprue in place. Fortunately I had some 3mm, just the right size to fit part 2, with the 3mm spigot replaced with a 3mm hole.
Pic 2 shows the sprue cut to a suitable length and part 2 modified with a 3mm hole, parts 1a and 2a.
Pic 3 shows all the parts together, mounted on part no3.
The whole lot fits onto the bridge which carry the brass yardarms.
Note to self, measure three times, cut once and think before you dash in with gay abandon.
Haddock.
Don't know why the last two shots are as they are, they're the right way up in the picture files, you'll just have to turn your head round!!