Rob,
I have been following your blog for many months now with much interest!
I seem to remember having read that glories stem was damaged and the iron bars that run from her naval hood to her stem were added to support the stem at that time.
As Regards to her color, all the articles written by Ducan McLean Describing Donald McKay build ships, all had blue waterways. I am not aware of any that were described with waterways that had any other color other than blue.
Ben Langford, when he upgraded the flying fish for model ship Ways described pearl as a light gray color, as opposed to buff, a light brown color?
if Glory’s bulwarks are described as pearl trimmed in white, it seems to me to indicate that the interior bulwark planking was painted pearl with the tlmberheads highlighted in white. This will be a quite attractive combination. I have a China Tradetrade painting of the bark IL Schofield which shows clearly the interior bulwarks painted white with the timber heads left bright. Both the pin rail,the main rail and the inside of the top gallant rail are also bright. If I knew how to post a picture from my iPhone I would be happy to share this. Keep up the great work and really well done on the stanchions. Also, as regards to contemporary paintings light gray is going to look white from a distance. Rick
