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you are right about the shields, but that was the way JSC offered them and I thought it was not worth the trouble changing that. It would have meant not using the entire skin. A judgement of evils. As to the windows: the front windows are cut-outs of the shell for protection,the side windows sliding ones with a wooden frame. The brown does not show nicely in my pics.
It was hard anyway to find an example model. There is a rough one at Deutsches Schiffahrtsmuseum in Bremerhaven, but the museum has been closed for renovation for years. When I was building the Gustoff a nice female employee at the museum took a liking to me and we both sneaked clandestinely through the construction-site-like museum to find out if the Gustloff model was still on display. It was very awkward and funny: half-lit, half-legal. But I behaved gentlemanly and thankful though we did not find the model. But my boyfriend and me had a good laugh about the entire story later.
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