The pilot house of the Brooklyn.
Is made of clear lexan.
Or some sort of clear plastic.
Anyway you have to tapeup the windows.
if you want clear windows to show!
So, now i'm waiting for 10mm tape.
To tapeup the forward windows on the brooklyn!
Pacients is a virtue!
In the plans Dumas wants you to neatly.
cut the windows out.
Just to put another piece of clear plastic in it's place!
What? yes cut it out to replace it with another piece of plastic!!!!

Caution:
Put tape on the inside of the captain cabin.
Where the windows are.
It will keep the inside windows from being over spayed!
When you take the tape off.
The windows will be clear of any over spray!

Today I worked on the ladders!
Fairly simple to do. Just had to measure the rungs.
Cut them to size 1 1/4"! The actual rung will be 3/4"!
Wait for the glue to set. Then cut off the excess!

Note:
Take your time it can be done with no problems!

Today was a good day to spray paint the Deck Hardware.
I also hand painted the Fire Monitor too!
I painted the Deck Hardware black.
The main Deck will be a light Tan.
And the Main Cabin Deck light Grey!

Note:
I used duct tape to hold the small parts.
While I painted them!

Windows finally taped!
Now all I have to do.
Is putty the main cabin deck.
Around the fascis board (coaming around main cabin).
Maybe paint the superstructure by Thursday or Friday!

Yey, the running lights arrived!
OK, I was going to put deck lights But, am not!
I figure port starboard steaming ahead. and one Lamp is enough! also don't want to run all those wires!
Still waiting for some resisters to arrive in the mail.
And also waiting for some Slide DPDT switches to arrive as well!

It is a beautiful summer day.
Thought I'd do some spraying!
So I sprayed the Brooklyn's Pilot house and main cabin!
The origanal Brooklyn was a deep dark green.
But I thought against using a dark green!
I myself like a light green tug! But the port lights will be a dark green! to show some contrast. The pilot house window frames will be a brown (Using brown primer) for this!
All the hand rails will be black....

So, What do you think?

Today is another great summer day!
So, I took to spraying the Handrails and Davits.
The handrails that go around the cabin aft.
Need to be made up and sprayed as well!

The Life rings that come with the kit.
Are made of white metal.
I figure for now spray them orange.
And put white ribbons every 90 degree's!
Kind of make them look like life rings!

OK, I've learned that.
When paint companies make a batch of paint.
You should get as many cans from that batch as possible!
For a set project if need be!

I used Bright Touch automotive paint.
For the bulwark and outer hull.
Had to get two more cans of the stuff.
It being BT43 Flat Black!

Wouldn't you know it's a different shade!😡
Not too far off but, noticeable!
At least the Red Oxide Primer.
Being BT51 is the same shade!

I must have lucked out on that one!
So what have I learned.
Get two or more cans if needed at the same time!👍

Today besides spray painting the handrail to the Brooklyn.
I recieved the resister and Switches.
I had ordered two weeks ago!
The resisters come in a plastic bag.
With the various values on the reverse!
Now all I have to do. is spend the weekend sorting resisters.
And putting them in other plastic baggies. With the values written on them Oh, joy!😱

Today I spent 2 hours sorting resisters!
It was a very boring task.
But one that had to be done.
I found what Resister I'm going to use.
I don't want the running lights on the Brooklyn.
To be bright so I will be using 270 Ohm Resisters.
On all the running lights.
This will help keep them not too bright!
Remember the Brooklyn is a 1910 Tugboat.
I don't think running lights were bright back then!