March 10, 2023
The hull is now assembled, just a few small parts to add, which I may leave until later to avoid breakages. The upper hull consists of three main parts: The front armour plate, the upper superstructure and the engine deck. The instructions would have you assemble them in the order I just listed them, but in hindsight, I think I would reverse the order of assembly. The reason for this is that the engine deck has the most positive method of location. The superstructure butts up against it well and is therefore quite easy to locate correctly. The front armour plate has the least definite method of location, so is best done last. I had to do quite a bit of sanding to fit the engine deck last and had a gap to fill between the armour plate & the superstructure.