Made a little progress on the SMS Konig this weekend, after stopping work on a dreadnought I started a while back.
Most of the work has been on cleaning up flash and removing molded ladders and such. Did get the deck installed after much sanding and trimming. The deck is very thin and flexible, so much so that I had to glue 1/8 inch square styrene along the whole deck to give it strength and stiffness.
Installed the port and starboard propeller shafts. The required a lot of sanding plus an application of putty to fill in the gaps plus a good dose of wet sanding. But after spraying on red for hull they did come out pretty nice. I use a rattle can of red to do the hull so it was impossible to keep it from spraying every where.
The 12 inch main guns (plastic) are being replace with bass barrels. I did a test install tonight to see if the new barrels can be attached to the mounting hardware for the plastic barrels. Of course they wouldn't fit. The plastic barrels are 3mm in diameter and the bass ones are 3.3mm. I had to trim the gun ports some more because the bass barrels were rubbing both sides.
Using some more 1/8" square tubing and 2.5mm strips I was able to mount the barrels so the would align in the correct position together. The plastic barrels were designed to move up or down, these barrels are now in a fixed position.
Time to stop work on this one and pick back up on the dreadnought for the next couple of days. Next set of pictures should be of the finished painted hull, and work on the superstructure, no promises.