Recently, I made an Instagram post about the trunneling work I recently started. It’s something I used to do more of, but I’d been doing some paper models recently, as well as many Japanese boats, and smaller scale ships, so it’s something I stopped doing much of. Also, I started using pencil to just do the ends of planks on several models. But recently, I’ve been looking at some 1/64 scale models, which in my book are just large enough to show trunnels, so I’ve been back at it recently.

I decided to return to my original method of representing trunnels. To make the trunnels themselves, I’m using the smallest hole in a draw plate that I think I got from Micromark at least 15 years ago. The holes are drilled with a #72 drill bit. This results in trunnels that are about 0.025″ in diameter. While I use this…