Falling Star
Mast
So having done the wheel, and been satisfied with it, once it had dried, I thought the next logical thing to tackle were the masts. These are magnetic and click into place on the deck nicely. However the spars “click” onto specific lugs. This meant that they could be painted separately, but I had to take care not to clog the lugs up with paint otherwise they wouldn’t fit. Also the spars have cloth sails (some sort of linen I think) already attached. Which is nice, but made painting a bit fiddly. In the end I had to paint them a strip at a time, let that dry, swivel the sail around onto the dry painted bit and paint the next stripe. Fortunately the paint didn’t take too long to dry, but this was the first occasion I wished that they hadn’t pre-assembled the ship quite to the extent that they had.
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