Thank you all once again for your kind comments and following this build!
Yes, I found some more bench time over easter, at the same time I had to realize that I have to get used to using the magnifier glasses again, especially the ones with the greater magnification. While that was absolutely common several month ago, for now I had to take a break every 20 minutes or so to avoid getting a headache. Ah well, that should become better again soon…
So still working ‘around’, set up a little serial production for the 10,5 cm AA.
This time I tried a very strange approach - I decided I would, just as a try, follow the obviously silly order of the instructions. Ok, must have been the 1 out of a 1000 chance or so
, the instructions were actually better than my cunning plan to build them when I first approached those guns more than a year ago.
So here are a few impressions of my production line:
I am quite happy with how they turned out. Together with the one from last week and the two painted ones from long ago, that’s eight for seven mounts I need, so one spare.
Now on step up in difficulty, the 3,7 cm.
After some struggling (and loosing some parts) I decided that omitting two additional etched hand wheels, left and right, jut in front of the resin gunners seats, and two microscopic structural parts to the bottom plate, would be acceptable. Yes, I know they would belong there and are not, but I can’t even see them with the naked eye, and not even with my reading glasses.
Eight are needed, I’ll evaluate which of those from last year I will use, probably will have to build six more. With omitting those described parts, that should be doable next weekend.
…and then there are the 2 cm singles lurking and waiting… I just did one of those last year and it didn’t really turn out as I wanted. So that will call for some practice…
So far for now, I hope next Monday I can show you the 3,7 cm serial production…and eventually start working at the ship again!
Thank you all for bearing with me and my build speed and cheers
Jan