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Old 08-07-2021, 09:27 AM
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Shalom

While you are building a paper model, the curvature of the gun turret is such that you are not going to get it right. And the petal design will make it worse.

May I offer two alternatives :
1- sand the paper turret smooth and then add putty where needed and sand smooth again. Then repaint it the grey color to match as best you can.

or

2- make a vacuformed turret like a canopy.

I used the vacuform method for a large radar dome and it came out good.

here are the steps :
Scratch building a SAAR 3 missile boat-img_9284.jpg

Scratch building a SAAR 3 missile boat-img_9297.jpg

Scratch building a SAAR 3 missile boat-img_9316.jpg

Scratch building a SAAR 3 missile boat-img_9319.jpg

Scratch building a SAAR 3 missile boat-img_9342.jpg


And yes, I do remember when these boats entered service. They made a big deal of the Gabriel missiles as well. These were smaller and fast boats after the destroyer ship Eilat was sunk.


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