I did mine differently in that I cut the hull across the lower deck, glued a piece of .040" strip along the bow, keel & stern to give it the right length & width. plated the missing section at the splice area & glued on the new lower deck. the ajax mold was bad toward the back of the foredeck as it is angled downwards a bit so had to fix that. doing both the Exeter & York this way & also got a pack of 6 resin leander turrets to make more of using styrene to use on these models plus the leanders & modified leander class ships.