Now I'm going to detail the anchor chains, forecastle and secondary spray shields, this is just lots of lumps and bumps of plastic really, so it's a case of colour, highlight, mask, colour over and over.
Swapping between grey, white, black and skyblue so many times makes you a little bit tired.
But next I needed to add the four capsons to the anchor chain ports, these I gave three strong coats of white to whilst still on the sprue.
I also painted the boat gear and fore cranes black still on the sprue.
A dab of sperglue in each hole and then move and the capsons are in place.
The cranes however I wanted to rig... I found the mig rigging wire too thick, so I asked the wife for a stand of hair... and with patience and superglue.... I rigged each crane still on the sprue.
This took maybe half an hour to fiddle the hair into place, leave it and keep the place draftless to stop anything moving before the glue cured.
Fitting these boat cranes finished off the forecastle.
Next we're going aft.
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