15 inch Scuttle (Porthole)

ModellerTone
Source The Battleship Dreadnought: Anatomy of the Ship (Roberts)
Grid Size1 mm
Scale1/48
This fitting is fairly good from the outside, and since there are so many on a ship it might not be good just yet to increase their complexity. These portholes had a brass or steel plug that could be clamped into place to afford a more battle-worthy degree of watertightness. I did not model that.

This piece requires some tricky installation. The "Granite" cylinder in the top scuttle in the picture is a "cutting object" that is used after the porthole is in place to "cut" a hole for it through the hull. It is deleted after its been used to make that hole.

I will soon create a tutorial explaining how to place these into a normal position on a hull which may be quite complex in its curvature. It's a cool trick.

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