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Before attaching the longerons, I need to place the aft deck, so that I will have a reference to follow the sheer of the hull as a visible clue for checking the correct postion of the longeron leading to the aft deck.
To represent the teakwooden deck, I am using small wooden strips that my hobbyshop supplies, glue them to paper and then cut out the deck with the planking. See pic 3 for the effect of such a wooden deck (the model here is the ms Tjiwangi, of the Royal Java & China Steamship Company, of 1953. It was the first large passenger ship built in the Netherlands after the WW2).
Pic 1 shows the aft deck planked, sanded smooth and ready for varnishing and attached in place, pic 2. Pics 4 and 5 show the deck in place and with the deckhouse attached. This deckhouse contained the 3rd class lounge and deckspace. On the deck below was a dining hall and accomodations for a total of 150 passengers. After the war, in the 1950s, the 3rd clas was discontinued and the facilities rebuilt for the 2nd class passengers.
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