How to improve the look of the desk on a Baltimore clipper ?

[Michelnou]

On the Mantua Baltimore clipper, the desk included in the kit is made of thin plywood (2,5 mm) of which the outer surface color resembles to mahogany wood.

Knowing that usually  ship desk color is not brown/red, what can I do to improve that situation ?

 

I thank you for your advices

Mike

[Michelnou]

Finally, I have spread a colorless mat oil on the desk  and with a clear bulwark it is not that bad.

 

Mike

[allanyed]

Bonjour Michel,

 

Can you post some photos?   I assume you meant deck not desk.   Assuming the deck received the same kind of stoning by the deck hands, the color would likely be more of a greyish white for pine or oak unless they used teak or mahogany on the actual construction which would have been imported and maybe far too costly.  As to the thickness, assuming the deck planks are somewhere around 2 or 3 inches thick, and the kit scale is 1:62, the deck should be about .82mm (for 2" planks) or 1.23 mm (for 3" planks) thick rather than 2.5mm

 

Allan

[Michelnou]

In fact, the initial deck color resembled more to cherry wood than mahogany which is darker.

 

I suppose that the scale is about 1/40 because it is a small schooner which only 3 guns on each side.

 

Here is a picture of the model :