Construction Complete

I finished the construction of the Maine tonight. This entailed adding the deck railings, anchors, some extra details (side lights, hatch ways, booms, etc.)An overall view
Without the pen.
Midships.
An overhead.



One of the neat parts of this kit is the bow scroll work. It was pretty difficult to get it painted right because of its size. I also polished it prior to painting. I considered keeping this off until after I dull coat the ship, however, some wise advice I recall is that all models should be dull coated, otherwise they look like toys. So Even though it's been polished, at some point after the rigging is applied, the scroll work will get dull coated.

I used the anchor chains supplied on the etch sheet instead of my regular small chain. I decided to use it because of the bar in the middle link. I thought it added some nice detail to the chain. I twisted every link 90 degrees from the previous to make it look like real chain.

The port side light.
Bow view of the scroll work

Next up: Rigging