Having flaked down a few lines over the 26 years I spent in the Navy, I'll observe that you don't need to have the lines perfect in colour - they are often stained. Sometimes rust, other times with paint (can't take them off when the ship's doing a paint routine alongside...you can only move them out of the way!) so while a hawser may start nice and clean and white, within a couple of months of use on a warship, they are no longer pristine, and after a year or two, they're looking well used.
Well done flaking them down in this scale though! Looks nicely done!
I do not recall ever Flemishing a line down though - must be a USN thing?
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