Once the ship was laid out, I made a template for the bow to turn the TT Combat kit from an ocean-going blunt nose cargo ship to an ocean-going warship. Using corrugated cardboard and hot glue I built up the bow then clad it in mount board.
Moving along the ship, bow to stern, I clad the rest of the ship in the mount board to increase the hull height and add protection for the commandos and Navy troops aboard. This included the addition of the air-drying clay, rolled out and moulded to represent splinter mats on the outside of the bridge.
The only large part I had to fabricate after refining the hull and hull base was the aft deck house, which included two gun platforms. This was made with mount card and a couple of industrial panels from my bits box.