Thank you, Grant. Have a blessed day on the other side of the world.
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If I ever decide to do lights again, just shoot me!
I can see what is wrong: they should be inside the ship...
They’ll get there—eventually.
True. The point is, there are sooo many wires coming out of the superstructure. I’ve drilled a hole in the bottom of the ship. The wires will go through the bottom and the 3/4“ plywood to Just Plug light hubs beneath the plywood. So far, all the lights work. Lights can also be replaced when needed by lifting up the superstructure.
The Admiral says you’re a bunch of smart alecks. She didn’t use that terminology.
I can select them individually with dimmer switches on the Just Plug light hub. It takes four lights. Each wire has its own resistor. I’ll probably have five light hubs, depending on whether I can install all the navigation lights. I would have to dig a groove down the stern and putty over the wires. I don’t want to do that because the light will eventually burn out, even if they are LEDs.
Hauaha
Still battening down the hatches. 
Kurt Konrath
Kurt Konrath
I am sure your Admiral used the proper terms, you just can't repeat them here for security reasons. 
Vic, this may have been addressed in an earlier post, but would the hatch covers have had lifting rings, and if so, do you plan to add those? Would be awfully small at that scale, I guess.
They would be ensconced at the little indentations I placed in the boards. I tried putting them in one, but you could hardly see them, and what you could see wasn’t very good.
Carefully paint them on to make the impression that they are there. The contrast of the rings should be subtle.
They appear to be strips of steel screwed or nailed over the indentations. A hook will probably be inserted into the indentations and hook onto the strips. They aren’t technically rings based on the pictures I’ve seen.