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Old 06-30-13, 04:05 PM   #123
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Originally Posted by Jimbuna View Post
You missed a portlight on the starboard quarter of the first Leander
That's one of my frustrations. I found a source for 1/2400 lifeboats and motor launches, so these have them, four each. They don't show up well in the pictures, but they do when you're holding one. The frustration comes with the fact that nobody seems to make ventilator funnels in that scale. The ventilator funnels are the ones with the big bell-like tops that help cool the engine and boiler rooms - the kind Indy hid in in Raiders Of The Lost Ark. On these ships they had six or eight of them and they were huge, dominating the ship's profile. To me they look naked without them. I could carve them out of plastic, but because of the shape there's no way I can cast them in resin. It's annoying, because they really would make a difference.

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