Well Footski, you have a point there. I haven't seen them coppered on English ships either. So I thought about it and decided to pull the copper and paint the boards black. I rather like the look better now. As always, I divert to break up boredum.. ho humm. Went ahead and made two cannon port doors, one is closed and the other open... then just had to see how a deadeye and chainplate would look, so installed the port mizzen fore shroud lower deadeye and chainplate. The chainplates in the kit really sucked and were truly way out of scale, so I made my own. Its not perfect, but closer than what was supplied.
Regards,
Dennis