Hello

It was time to p**s or get off the pot with this Maresal so I drank a lot of water and got stuck into it.

To be fair ... over the past few weeks Ive been doing a lot of filing and stuff and had a lot of the bits ready to go. The trickiest bit was always going to be (actually the second trickiest bit) this shallow turtle casemate over the top. The angles have to be spot on or deviations will propogate down through the rest of the model.

In the end I gave up on my adjustable protractor and all the cardboard templates and just slapped the five bits on a flat surface and raised them up incrementally until they all came together like a flower or something.

I used some brass bar down the widest angles to beef up the fillet and to serve to fill up some of the gaps and form a foundation when I start slapping on the filler and sanding. Otherwise...quite pleased.

It looks rough as hell but its even and flat along the bottom which is the crucial thing.

Apologies for the roughness but Im not wasting time sanding and cleaning at this stage.

P