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unpainted to allow more light in. T e edges of the deck were masked using narrow painter’s tape. It was very tedious masking around the bulwark stays, and I realized there would a fair bit of touch up required in these areas. T e deck was sprayed with Model Master #1923 Gunship Grey, an excellent match to the colour used on Sackville’s deck.


T e mess deck was fi nished by making the tables, benches, seat lockers, shelves, and mess racks, all from styrene with reference to the drawings in the Agassiz plans. T e chain pipes and pillars holding up the fo’c’s’le were made from plastic tube and rod.


I temporarily posed two surplus pilot fi gures from my spares box to illustrate how small the space is. (Figure 24) Imagine thirty or more men, hammocks slung from overhead beams, and everything soaked through from green seas roaring unimpeded into the well deck and then into the mess!


The fo’c’s’le deck


T is deck was made from one sheet of 0.040-inch styrene held down on the ship while the outline was traced onto the underside. T e companion way to the lower deck at the aſt end of the fo’c’s’le was built (Figure 25), and aſt er painting and skylight installation it was glued to the main deck.


24. Seamen’s mess complete. Note two scale fi gures temporarily posed to illustrate the crowded conditions.


Aſt er gluing the fo’c’s’le deck to the ship, it was trimmed with 0.080-inch angle and I-bar beams placed across the well deck opening. My deck plan references were used to mark the locations of the windlass, 4-inch gun platform, and all other vents and openings, checking against the Chicoutimi photographs for possible diff erences. T e deck was planked over the seamen’s mess; this was framed in 0.040-inch angle and fi nished with scale 2-inch by 10-inch lumber from the model railroad hobby shop (Model railroad ‘O’ gauge is 1:48 scale, and that hobby is an amazing source of small parts and pieces). T e supporting angles and post for the gun platform were also made and installed.


25. Assembled companion way to the lower deck mess before painting.


26. Wood planking over the seamen’s mess, 4-inch gun platform sup- ports, and hawse pipes.


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