This is the continuation of step 23 from the previous page.   Now that the resin has had time to set and harden you can now sand the hull smooth.   Sand the resin until the hull is smooth to your satisfaction.

Roger's Notes: To tell you that you will have to sand the hull is not telling you the full story.  Plan on a few days of sanding to get the hull perfectly smooth.  I have had other modelers tell of this too.  The resin does an excellent job, but requires major "elbow grease" to bring it to the final finished surface.  After the first coat was sanded, I added a second coat of resin.  This second coat was sanded to the final finished surface.

Roger's Notes: Here I have just started to sand the hull.  After the resin had dried, the hull looked very smooth and the resin had seemed to level over the cloth.   But as I started to sand, I could see where there were minor areas where the resin wasn't as smooth as I had thought.  I did add a second coat of just finishing resin.   This second coat was sanded and produced an exceptional finished surface.   Also note that the superstructure has been test fitted together.  Here I was test fitting the pieces together getting ready for the next steps.  At this point the Crockett is starting to take shape.