Good morning brothers,
Some progress on the rangefinder, located on the armoured bridge.
As some of you may know, most navies, especially the German Navy in WW2, used round headed bolts; especially in exposed surfaces. Normal bolts were of course used as well, but as I said, the locking bolts used on the main exposed surfaces, were of the round headed type and had a triangular insert. The insert was in fact the means with which the bolts was finally tightened - just like we nowadays know as allen type screws and bolts. But instead of having a hexagonal insert, the German prefered a triangular insert.
The set of round headed bolts to be used is in fact the rivet set as produced by CMK - the size is of 0.8mm.
One can apprecieate the small size of the heads to be used.
Fixing the bolt heads in place by using a slight drop of PVA glue. This gives you ample time to place the bolt head in place - where as the super glue can give you a very hard time.
The bolt heads in place, including the bolt heads which locked the armoured ventilator cap in place.
The base of the range finder, was also locked in place by means of bolts, but this time the bolts are of the normal type, as the base is nearly covered by the range finder itself, so this was not considered as an exposed area.
The range finder, ready to recieve it's share of primer paint - to becarried out this weekend.
A close up of the base.
This weekend I will try to finish it off, fix in place the photoetched ladder (supplied by scale link models) and the access panels. the lastpiece to be fitted is the short tee headed mast, which supported the two steel wire rigging, hanging from the top platform of the tower to the tee section of the short mast.
Post more pics next Monday.