As usually happens, I started out really on a roll:
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-------FULL RES I was quite pleased with the above - despite their appearance, created by the substantial relief of the bars, together with their close-spacing (originally to indicate shells, remember), such that the doors (left) looked like they had scalloped edges - if not corrugated entirely.
But these - both the concerns and PE details themselves - were in short order literally obliterated by a real problem: substantial damage to the turret-face, brought on by a valiant yet very dumb repeat-attempt at form-fitting the interior around the new guns. The subsequent repairs, while ultimately successful, nevertheless saw the tiny PE doors popped off, torn and bent in the process.
Even worse (so I thought, anyway), during the repair process I could not help but to indulge a bug well and truly up my a** - ever since seeing the FROG 500-scale turrets - to taper the back end just a little bit more like the FROGs, resulting in the following:
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Meanwhile, note the new guns, while still too short (only longer in most of these pics due to macro-distortion), because of their finer thickness certainly look far longer: more like true, heavy 8-inchers - to be extended further-still, to match my drawing (not shown).
So, what was it that convinced me the above was not already hopelessly over-worked - into something too diamond-shaped - but in fact looking, if anything, even better now, than ever? It was the following, historical reference pic:
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In this regard, however, note even the new, finer gun barrels look excessively thick - again, largely an illusion of the macro-photography (particularly at this angle).
So, the turret not only escaped the jaws of defeat, but even snatched a little more victory, after all - and next I will carefully fit the new guns. And only after that is done, finish off with the PE local-sighting doors - for which I will search for yet more-promising-looking scraps, in my stash - as well as two PE doors to go on the rear of the turret.
All I need to do is Not F-Up Anything Else, before I can get this thing successully into a mold!
Cheers,
- Matty
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