My friend asked me to post the following:
Bow section all skinned
A minor coloring error in the anchor housing (should be light grey in the indicated area) - Kooklik has been informed and is fixing it.
The first bow plane installed. These bow planes could be made movable but I (I mean my friend) decided to glue them in place.
The other bow plane has been installed and the bow section is complete.
An interesting bit of trivia is that this is the way we build nuclear submarines today - as modules (or "rings" as they are called) with all the piping, major machinery and cable runs installed and then the rings are joined together and, presto!, you have a submarine. This method of production has even been extended to much larger ships - Northrop-Grumman Newport News (formerly Newport News Shipbuilding) builds aircraft carriers the same way.