| Air Vents Photographs of the Deutschland-Klasse boat decks show air vents along the sides of the boat-deck structures in-line with the funnels on all five ships as shown here in this boat deck photo of Deutschland. I have seen some thick and sloppy versions of this done on other ship models, but I wanted it to be clean and sharp and to scale. What to do? |
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| Making the Air Vent Housings I discovered that the superb photo-etched stairs made by my friend Peter Lienau were the same width as the air vents so I made one good housing for the side and a corner in plastic as a master and then made a mould. Once done, I cast the numbers I needed from resin. This photo shows the master, the mould, and the resin castings. |
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| Adding the Air Vent Housings
The resin cast housings were then glued onto the boat deck structures, which I had designed to accept them. |
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| Aufbau Intro / Lower Deck / Boat Deck / 8,8cm Gun Platforms / Upper Deck / Structures / Platform Supports/ Armoured Bridge / Air Vents / Priming / Crow's Nests / Deck Panels / Final Product |