Just to give everyone a good laugh I thought I'd post a couple pics of my "progress" **cough cough**.
In this first image you can see my careful masking job as I paint the bulwarks on the first level, carefully masking the deck as well to keep from filling up the plank detailing with paint. In tho foreground you can see some of the sub assembly peices being prepped by filling seams and removing molded on details that will be replaced by brass:
In the second picture you see the deck progress well under way, hundreds of individual tape strips replicating individual planks in four different shades of tan:
And in this final picture you can see the deck stripped of ALL paint in preperation of doing it all over again:
After the stripping EVERYTHING will have to be repainted, well at least the camo pattern is still visible on the hull, that will save a couple days work.
Let the snickering commense.