Seems like the closer to finishing a model I get, the more small details there are to wrap up. Touching up paint here and there where I missed a spot or scraped some paint off for gluing. One thing I always need to do is apply clear flat to all the shiny super glue spots. I use Testors Clear Flat acrylic and a small brush for this. For the glass in the windows and stern lanterns I use Testors Clear Gloss acrylic the same way. I made coils of rope from thread wrapped around a brass tube and painted them with clear flat acrylic so they would hold their shape. After this dried I cut the connecting thread and slid each coil off the tube (not as easy as it sounds). A sharp pair of scissors was used to trim off the excess from each coil. There are no belaying pins in the pin rails to drape the coils over, so I just superglued them to the pin rails. I accomplished this by first brushing some accelerator (zip-kicker) onto the pin rail. Holding the coils with tweezers I dipped each one into a small puddle of thick super glue and just stuck it onto the pin rail. The accelerator makes the superglue set up at once.
Finally the name plate. I usually don't like to use gold or other metallic paints for this because it just doesn't look real enough. Testors Red-Brown acrylic with Tamya dark brown for the lettering worked fine. Good old super glue did the job of attaching it to the base.
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