I applaud your use of binder clips!
I have binders full of boats! (2012 Presidential campaign joke)
But seriously - thank you for the compliments, Gentlemen.
Crew deck was swiped from the same pair of Robert E Lee kits (acquired cheap, primarily for their paddlewheel boxes), as where the 'wood' sides. Front bulkhead piece (w/portholes) came from a Revell North Sea Trawler kit (I used two hulls spliced to make another 1:124th screw-steamer American Civil War blockade runner).
For the wheel deck, I swiped the upperworks from a Shell Welder kit (one of three I snagged cheap).*
Pardon all the shadows, this was a hip-shoot pic.
Slow going of late, as I spend more time staring at references and then the parts box and then the model (rinse/lather/repeat). I might just 'cheat' with the cargo deck hatches and make some trapaulin'd "close enough" squares (remembering, the end state is for wargaming so build durability is a consideration).
Logically, I knew at least one ship's boat and the davits need to be on the fantail, along with some railings. There doesn't seem to be any stacks on the 'steel trucks' (unless someone can point out what I'm missing), but there'll need to be ventilators and gangways between the decks. Probably a tarpaulin rigged on the rear of wheelhouse deck.
What else?
Any one else run into the same problems working by rule-of-thumb from a template and not a plan?
*Two SHELL WELDERS have been spliced to become a 1:124th scale 21st century Q-Ship. You guys want a new thread on that build or do these cliffhanging WIP fits-and-starts updates bug you like they bug me?PS: Illustrative mindset