She has a name

And she has a name. For this I used the original brass plates from the kit, without painting them. That seemed a nice touch to me. Painted, they would have become yellow ochre, like the mouldings, and I didn’t think much of that. Bare brass won’t be true to life, but it looks good on the transom.

The strips towards the wing transom do take some precision to get them straight and horizontal. The left-hand one has a slight dip downwards, but there was nothing more I could do about that: it was down to the planking. Luckily it isn’t very noticeable to the naked eye.

Then I started on the decorative strips on the first quarter gallery. I’m letting them continue from the transom as well as I can. On the various models on the internet you see all sorts of variations, but I like this one best myself, so this is the version it will be.

The imperfections in the close-up can’t be seen with the naked eye. I’m happy with it. Now the windows in the galleries, and that’s probably where most of the fiddly work is again.