It's Sunday so this must be Amsterdam.....-:(
Finally some time to work on Kungsholm. Now that the hull shape is frozen I could start the porthole pattern. I decided to try something new. I started by glue-ing copied down side patterns from the WHV paper kit on the starboard hull and use a combination of a pin and a .5mm hand drill to drill the portholes in the upper deck and main deck sides.
Big mistake.
Drilling through the layer of glued down paper threw off the drill bit ever so slightly, so I had to apply force instead of letting the drill do the work. This always happens in a random pattern. After an hours' work the starboard side started to look like a marching band after a few rounds of Jameson. So starboard is now filled up again with Tamiya filler and will get another few rounds of priming and sanding. For the port side I decided to go back to the oldest method in the book. I took a straight but flexible strip of wood (well.....I cheated and used styrene instead), and used the porthole pattern to tape this strip to the hull (.3mm lower). I put the smallest drill I am comfortable with (.3mm) in my pin vise and started drilling, being very careful this time not to apply any pressure. After an hour things looked like this.
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