Foredeck with railings added. Now for a gripe. The etched brass for the rest of the kit is quite nice but now I've got most of them fitted, the rails are a bit of a disappointment. In a lot of instances, the run is incomplete so it needs to be completed by grafting on some generic stuff. Based on the principle that any deck or platform should provide some form of protection to stop the crew falling overboard, there are areas where nothing is provided in the kit, so more generic stuff. Finally, the foredeck is nothing like flat, in fact it rises in a gentle curve from around the missile launchers to the point where the anchor chains disappear into the deck where it levels off almost to the horizontal.
It doesn't need a Ph.D in quantum mechanics to realize that something produced straight can't be bent on it's edge to conform to this shape, fortunately, I have some generic curved rails, sadly, they're not the same pattern as the kit items and Iv'e had to use a mix of both, hopefully, it's not too noticeable.
Any half decent CAD system should have been able to sort this out.
Rant over.
Haddock.
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