I now have all the brass railings built except for the main side railings on the conning tower and a couple details on the deck rails. I also decided to try making my own cloth scale Kriegsmarine flag so I found an old piece of fine woven cotton bedsheet, ironed it nice and smooth, and backed it with a sheet of adhesive vinyl to make an 8.5x11 size printable sheet. I then ran it through my Canon inkjet printer and it actually worked really well. I carefully cut it out and removed the vinyl backing and sealed the edges with CA glue so they wouldn't unravel and folded it and carefully glued the edges only together. Now I have a pretty nifty little homemade all cloth flag that looks darned good if I say so myself. The flagstaff is removable from the holder on the back of the wintergarten and I will mostly just use it when displaying the model.
*Note to admins: if the historically accurate flag image presents an issue I will be happy to modify the image so as not to offend anyone.
