More Hull Painting

It took two coats of Middle Stone to completely cover the hull area below the black. Middle stone was also painted on the railings. After all this dried I masked off the strakes and painted up to them. After the paint dried I masked off the space between the strakes and painted it middle stone. Time consuming but it's the only way I know to get a nice clean paint separation between the black and the middle stone. I began painting the flat black on the stern galleries. The decoration at the top of each side looks like feathers and a picture of a painting of this ships shows them white. I painted them Model Master Camouflage grey. I'll dry brush the with flat white when it's dry. These stern galleries still need a lot of touching up.

I waited until most of the hull was painted to paint the bottom because I was trying to decide between white or light grey. Finally deciding on Testors Flat White spray can after looking at photos of other modelers work. Although I'm pleased with the result, waiting this long to paint was a bit of a blunder. During the masking process some parts were knocked off and some gold paint was damaged. After repairing the damage all good again.