Fire monitors

After searching the web for possible fire monitors/water cannons, I finally decided to reuse the supplied fire monitors provided by the fitting set, not because they are looking that great..., but at least they are not over dimensioned in any way.

I also have planned to have 2 of them "working" so for realising that I removed the top pipe and drilled a 2 mm hole through the body and refitted a 2mm brass pipe.

Progress on the upper structure

Still a long way to go, but I think it's starting to look impressive...

Creating ladders

Finally I found a way to create ladders..

Maybe not the easiest solution but at least they are reproduce able.

Underneath a sequence of the process, the pictures themselves are self-explaining if you want/need to see them in a higher resolution, you can download the ladder.rar file

     

Life raft and boat fenders

a close-up of the boat fenders and the life rafts.

The life fenders and storing racks are pretty much as suggested by the kit, the life rafts are made a bit more realistic from scrap wood and wire and by using an electrical drill as a lathe.