Finally got all the pieces put back together. Had to remake a few, as the roof was badly warped, and there was a piece missing (probably under his couch). Sanded and primed, filled in a few blemishes, and primed again. Taped in order to start the topcoat of paint. Upper hull will be white, hence the white primer.
While waiting for the paint (again), I picked up a few little toy lobsters. Naturally they were bright red, and not very realistic. So I painted them dark brown, washed with a thinned down black to highlight the detail, then added a bit of light orange, washed again with a very thinned out brown, then clear coated. Then I stuffed one in the other lobster trap which will hang from the winch on the starboard side of the boat.
Finally, there has to be a place to hold the little nippers while heading back to port, so I looked at a dozen or so images of real lobster boats, and most had some sort of holding tank. So I built one out of styrene stock. Gave it a nice aluminum edge to dress it up. Filled it part way with clear gorilla glue, dropped one of the lobsters in, and added a bit more clear GG. May add another in there trying to crawl out.
Bob