After painting the decks, I rubbed them lightly with Burt Umber pastell to show the deck seams. I tried using a prisma color pencil of the same color but it just wouldn't work because the relief is not raised enough. The gun carriages were first glued to the deck and the cannon barrels were glued on next. All the rest of the gun deck parts were assembled after painting (red). After test fitting the deck to the hull I had to reposition the forward guns to align with the forward gun ports. The spar deck assembles onto the gun deck very nicely and I used super glue especially to secure the stanchions to the bottom of the spar deck since this part curves. I left the stairs off at this time because I'm sure the would have broken off during hull/deck assembly. The decks assembly was installed into the port hull half and aligned and super glued. Then I installed the stairs to the bottom of the gun deck. The starboard hull half was assembled but the decks sagged a little and I had to use a long screwdriver to push the deck up into its correct position. Lucky I didn't damage the model. Super glue was used to cement the hull halves together.
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