17. Warships of this era featured a lot of ventilator cowls!
the superstructure longitudinally along the deck. Even so, there was a considerable gap between the underside of the superstructure and the main deck. By weighting down the superstructure and gluing the hammock lockers into place, the shape was retained and fi tted nicely to the respective curves. (Figure 9) T e superstructures’ upper structure was painted white rather than the buff as it now is painted to match the contemporary models. (Figure 10)
18. One of the upgraded searchlights.
T e kit provided options to use either cast resin casemates into which the 5-inch gun barrels fi tted into holes drilled for them or Britannia metal castings. I chose instead to make new casemates from thin aluminum sheet and cut off the tops of the
