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26) T e white mini-dome and its pedestal were also scratch-built, to match what I saw in photographs of the real ship.
Moving to the bow of the ship, I decided to fabricate leadsman’s platforms and their attendant curved rail- ings, using scrap photo-etched metal in my inventory. (Figure 27) In addition, I fabricated fl ag staff s from metal wire and rod, because the plastic kit parts did not look at all like those on the real ship. T e lights
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on these tripods were made from clear styrene, then painted with transparent colors. (Figure 28) To com- plete the bow, I added a scratch-built hawse chock, two L-shaped anchor chain restraints, metal anchor chains, and railings. (Figure 29)
Aſt er completing the bow, I focused on the foremast and the mainmast. T e fi rst step was to build the curved radar screens on the foremast. I discarded the solid plastic kit parts and made my own from
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