On July 16th, USS Missouri set out to engage all opponents upon the Alta Mons Sea. A Reconnaissance Report indicated a substantial minefield (moss) that would restrict Missouri's operational area. While no hostiles were encountered, the day did not proceed without incident.
Missouri was testing out her new more redundant propulsion system, which worked with mixed results: Her starboard engines ran without problem or failure the entire day - marking her first meet that she did not require some form of recovery. Unfortunately, the port motor kept blowing fuses (and still is even on the bench a week later - there is some weird ground short which even took out my multimeter fuse this evening, putting debugging on hold until morning).
A couple of months ago Stephen from 
Okay so I'm making a more complicated subdeck / caprail piece as it should provide greater strength to the hull and increased High Seas survivability.
The ships I had owned or worked on previously were all treaty-era or WWII battleships which lacked casemates or other hull crenelations. Unfortunately they are a prominent feature on my 1908 battleship Nassau. However, I wanted them to register dents and seamlessly blend with the deck. So I need to skin them. The good news is that our rules don't require they be penetrable.The bad news is that their curves are too severe to simple bend if 1/32" balsa around them. This article shows how I solved the problem.
Most of the time a ship will take enough damage to need repair but not enough to deserve a complete reskinning. Here are some pictures to show you how easy it is to make small (and not so small) repairs to the skin without removing the entire skin.