Boats & Flag

The ships boats are left off until the all the rigging is finished, otherwise they will be in the way of the belaying points for the rigging. The boat skids and davits were all painted white. The insides of the boats were painted two shades of brown. The boat exteriors were painted white with blue trim. I don’t know if the blue trim is historically accurate but it does add a bit of needed color. The oars were painted tan.

Finally, the flag. No ship model is complete without a flag. The British merchant flag or “Red Duster” was cut from the sheet and folded around a thread and glued with a drop of Elmer’s glue.

After the glue dried I touched up the flags’ edges with red paint and rigged it to the peak of the spanker gaff