The lifeboat davits have all been installed as have the lifeboats. The davits are thicker than I would have liked, but they were too fragile to thin down.
The davits were resin copies of a modified davit from the Airfix 1/600 Queen Elizabeth ocean liner. The arms are photoetched pieces. The complete photoetch davit was too spindly to use, so I used just the curved arm section glued to the resin copies.
The lifeboats are from the original Queen Mary kit. I had planned on making resin copies of the Queen Elizabeth lifeboats, but changed my mind as I wanted the boats covered as is normally seen. The kit lifeboats were too wide so I filed the sides and changed the shape to more closely match the original lifeboat.
This picture also shows that I have started to add the railings to the sides.
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