HMS Polyanthus No.3
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Some more progress on HMS Polyanthus. I added splinter shields port and starboard as well as the supports for the radar housing. A new bridge deck, now with engraved lines to simulate the wood planking, preplaced the one I have build before. The splinter shields in front of the bridge are in place, and I add some support struts to the windows of the lower bridge. I used flat and profile styrene in size 0,3mm ? 0,5mm to build all the parts for the new bridge. When finished so far I test fit all the parts, but was not very pleased with the whole ensemble. Something was wrong, the bridge section does not look as square as it should. The PE card house seems to be too high, I measured 6,7mm. I build a new one from styrene with a height of 5,8mm and that fits more to the whole ensemble.
To build one of the nearly 270 Flowers except HMS Anchusa from the kit is a fine project because nearly each of the ships is different because of a lot of builders and a lot of modification add during the war. I did not really
