The only flag that comes with the kit is the jolly roger pirate flag. Since this ship will be built as a British frigate, I needed a Union Jack. The best one I had on hand was in an unbuilt kit of the HMS Prince. This ship is from an earlier period and the jack needed some updating. After making a copy of the Princes' flag sheet, I used colored pencil to update the union jack. White glue was used to cement it around the flag staff.
Before calling the ship "done" Testors flat clear acrylic was brushed over all the shiny super glue spots to give a fairly even flat finish.
I found, in a Patrick O'Brian book, the name of a 32 gun British frigate named the HMS Thames which was from the late 18th century, broken up in 1803. Two more cannons were added to the main spar deck and the name was given to this model. The 2 name plates from the kit were reversed and painted yellow. Decals for the name plates were made on my PC in a word file and printed onto decal paper.
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