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The other thing you could do is re-make the bowsprite out of wood.
I could also build a Huron particle accelerator!! You jest sir, my skills are way below that I'm afraid.
No, I have affixed the bowsprit as suggested, and it has held on, but as I've started to progress I'm finding more and more pieces on the sprues so badly deformed, or such bad flashing they're stuck together and misshapen.
My skill set isn't anywhere near good enough to scratch make parts for a ship of this complexity. Plus, I've just started, and I really don't want to be frustrated and dismayed with a model this early in!
So I've decided to shelve the kit, and continue with my tank.
Plus, I guess people who do this hobby have their niches they gravitate to. Mine are vehicles, with the odd plane. Perhaps it's because that's my interest in real life, it transposes over into modelling.
So maybe I'll come back to this another time, maybe even turn it into the Cutty Sark underwater!