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21. Davits installed and rigged.


positions for the sixteen stanchions and made small holes to accommodate their feet. T e stanchions themselves were made from 0.020-inch brass wire bent to shape using a simple jig. I used lacquer thinners to degrease them and chemically blackened them.


To represent the hammocks in their stowage I used a strip of Evergreen 0.040-inch pitch corrugated siding with lines scribed across it at 0.040-inch intervals. I painted it a lightish tan color and then drybrushed with a pale sand shade so that the tan delineated the divisions between the individual hammocks. Aſt er I adjusted each stanchion to the correct height, I attached the ‘hammocks’ around them and glued some darkened laser-cut paper railings on them to represent the cagework that retained the hammocks. T ere are no divisions on the inner face—a fact I hope is not obvious aſt er fi tting the awning that these Russian monitors seem almost always to have rigged. T e semi-permanent stairway for access to the turret top (rather than the vertical ladder used on the


American vessels) is from laser-cut paper.


T e awning was made from a circle of thin cream- colored paper. I drew pencil lines on the bottom to represent the stays running to the heads of the stanchions (this also imparted a slight crease that made it seem as though the ‘canvas’ of the awning sagged a little over the stays). I also cut a narrow wedge so that the fi nished awning was very slightly conical instead of completely fl at. Finally, I made a small hole in the center of the awning and installed the periscope made earlier. I also made a hole off - center for the mast that was stepped on the turret top. (Figure 18)


Before moving on to making and installing the boats and their davits I fi tted the funnel stays using very fi ne chemically blackened copper wire. T ese would have been very diffi cult to fi t with the davits in place. (Figure 19)


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