Hi,
my upcoming built will be the 1907 Dreadnought by Trumpeter.
I have the two Eduard sets (railings and general detail), Artworx wooden deck and the Kagero 3D book (which I like very much) for it.
As I am rather unfamiliar with ships here are a few questions:
The wooden deck looks very nice but I have never used one before and would appreciate any tips or hints about it's use. For example - will the glue hold it down to the plastik deck permanently or should I support it with some superglue?
May be I should have bought the Pontos detail set but it's too late now (too expensive now that I have all the above items).
So I am wondering how to do the stowed torpedo netting and looking at the detail 3D drawings in the book I found out the rigging is much more complex than I thought.
For example there are these 'spreaders' (I do not know the correct maritime term), that are star-shaped and keep eight (!) aerials or what they are apart - there are no PE parts for those and I have no idea how to make these tiny things.
For the rigging I intend to use EZ Line and do as much of the rigging as possible. Is EZ the right choice? Should I try to do as much rigging as possible or might that turn out to look a bit overcrowded in this scale?
In general, any experience, ideas and so on regarding the above or the kit itself is very welcome.
Ingo