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| Aluminium support post and base ring. |
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| Weight saving foam core |
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| All set for pouring the dome |
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| Pour... |
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| and cure @45PSI |
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| Cured |
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| Roughly formed |
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| Cutting out the closing tabs on the base ring |
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| Milling the closing tabs |
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| Milling the cutouts in the support post. |
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| Making 6 retaining screws |
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| All the parts required for one clasp |
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| Clasps and final detailing added,primed.....the clasps are oversized,will substitute them with smaller ones later on.. |
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| M45 reload,60 37mm AP shells, extra ammunition for the stbd twin.50 |
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| View from above |
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| In place.seen from the hatchway |
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| Oil can and some 105 rd ammo boxes. |
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| Deck portion finally fitted. |
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| Turret test fitted,turret height yet to be adjusted. |
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| Fit is good and the turret is vertical,having to follow the deck curve/slope and mantain proper alignment would have been a nightmare! |
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| The boat is quite a tight fit inside a Smart fortwo. |
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| Drilling aft turret base with the boat level |
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| Same with forward turret. |
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| Cutting out the foredeck gun platform base; deck level fore to aft,boat level athwartships. |
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| Finished.... |
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| Foredeck gun pad located |
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| Center drilled. |
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| Centering pin and drill guide plate(scrap steel bar) |
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| Guide plate fixed in place |
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| Leveling out the hull.(fore to aft) |
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| And athwartship. |
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| Two bubble levels fitted into the hull(engine room) |
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| Jig for coamings, deck planks laid around it. |
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| Stern planking,plastic strip spares location for gunwhale guard covering board. |
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| About 50% of planking completed. |
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| Coaming jig removed,white plastic card is chart table linoleum covering. |
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| Adding barnacles with magic sculpt |
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| Adding waterline marine growth with acrilic gel a laser level line is used to mark the waterline. |
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| More acrilic gel to build up algaes,oil colours to give the right tint and a semi gloss clear paint layer to give that wet effect. |
