It was all going so well...
Then I tried to fit the decks, and it all went wrong. I’d never glued paper parts of that size before, and the PVA I used screwed the paper; the water in it soaked through and wrinkled the whole lot. Couldn’t live with it so...
It took a surprising amount of physical and emotional effort to fold it up into a bin-sized ball, but there you go. So as of earlier this month, it’s shelf was empty:
I continued cutting hull sides out - part of the grieving process I suppose:
Before buying another - I contacted HMV, who very kindly sent another, which I’ve set about re-building:
I’d almost forgotten about the swastika masking, all of which had to be re-done. As of yesterday, pretty much back to where I was , 4 weeks lost:
This time it’ll be UHU for the decks...