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Time to think about adding rails to the main and lower weather decks.Drawings first so you can see what we're faced with.Trumpeter have supplied six lengths of railing, three each side, all identical at 124m long with 4mm between stanchions.The model is 365mm long measured at deck level on the centreline, so around the hull will be more. 3x124=372 so not much to spare.On the drawings, the parts are labelled PE-A1, to bend them as shown on the drawings is a mathematical impossibility, the midship section just ain't long enough for a start.Just as an aside, on all the pictures I've looked at, with the ship under way, the ladders with handrails are only there from the quarter-deck to the lower quarter-deck so I've followed suit.I scratched my head for a while then thought " stop moaning and get on with it, ignore all the silly little kinks around the midship section and hope for the best"You can see the result on the port-side main deck.I've got a piece of brass left about 6mm long, so just enough.Haddock.
