#4474548 - 05/18/19 05:04 AM
Re: Remember how i said 1/48 was too small, well guess what this belongs to and i 'll start posting the kit- EDIT -Warspite 1/350
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#4474821 - 05/20/19 12:40 PM
Re: Remember how i said 1/48 was too small, well guess what this belongs to and i 'll start posting the kit- EDIT -Warspite 1/350
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Here's the small AA. I had a couple of ideas on resizing, one which was too cut off the shoulder rest, chop a small piece out to shorten it and then reglue the shoulder rest back on. But then i was like, nope, whatever, it'll do From top on they are dodgy but the side view is passable enough. and a wrap up of where it stands. Small AA all finished, thank god. Turrets nearly done. I'm only putting the AA buckets on the two with the cut outs and the leaving the other two clean. The buckets look messy and take away from the ship overall imo. Bridge done except rigging, railings and some braces and poles. Hangar still needs a bunch of items added. Life boats done, secondaries still to be finished, rear gun director nearly finished, life rafts to be painted and still plenty of bits left on the sprues- deck fittings, hangar fittings, AA buckets and ammo boxes, anchors, mast pieces, rudders, props and prop shafts and some hull fittings. Still a ways to go yet!
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#4475895 - 05/29/19 02:50 AM
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I've decided to have a crack at an ocean base, can't be that hard can it The boring base supplied won't do anything for the model i feel and the colours should make a nice contrast. This test piece is the foam cut out of my template that i used a lighter on to firstly, see if can burn my house down, and secondly, to see how easy it is to make some sort of basic wave effect so it isn't a flat surface to start with. Next is placing toilet paper, yes we prefer the flower variety, and then laying on a ton of wood glue. After drying i used the only blue i could find in the house as a base colour, i would have preferred darker but at this stage it will do. Once this dries i'll start adding some other colours, grey greens, dark blues etc and then move onto some greys and add white caps. Waves and wake are meant to made from more toilet paper and glue worked with a brush and some paint detail and then the whole lot gets coated with a thick acrylic gel. We'll see how it all ends up. At this stage it looks like a kindergarten project..but i'm confident something can come of it. Rigging. I found some line finally and it's awesome. The lycra stretches seven times its length and is really easy to work with. I also finally bought a couple of pairs of decent modelling tweezers as well and at only $4.50 each i was pleasantly surprised at the pricing. The rigging, that i was silently dreading, was far easier than doing the photo etched rails, of which i need to buy more as the kit i bought does not have enough to do the whole ship so railings have come to a halt at the moment. The rails were aftermarket so with some cuts i had to leave a support pole off but they turned out ok. Some of these shots are outside in full sun and some under light, it's been hard trying to capture the weathering and colours correctly, to the eye it always looks much better than pictures regards subtle colour changes. I still need to trim some some rigging on the mast, cranes need a final position decision before i glue them, the bridge lifeboat needs some rigging line crisscrossed over it and some line from the stanchion at the rear of the AA guns down to the pole running horizontal below it. Because i've decided on an ocean base i won't be adding anything to the still bare hull until i have it solidly mounted in its new home. As it will all sit on the deck
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#4475978 - 05/29/19 07:36 PM
Re: Remember how i said 1/48 was too small, well guess what this belongs to and i 'll start posting the kit- EDIT -Warspite 1/350
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LOL, I thought they were CGI at first, as it looks too perfect.
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#4476046 - 05/30/19 07:49 AM
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Wow, fantastic work Ajay! The cranes are real highlights.
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#4476377 - 06/02/19 01:14 PM
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The result of my first ocean test. After the base which was just the acrylic blue i dumped a few layers of wood glue on it to see if it would result in any sort of clear depth, it did in some areas but the thicker parts tended to be cloudy even after nearly three days of drying. Thinner but more layers may have been the go. Because it's all going by the seat of my pants and some bits and pieces from the net it's all learning which is cool. I've seen one guy who uses oats to build his bases from so i had an idea maybe i could use flour! I made up a thick paste of flour, water, the wood glue and added colour. That all got applied over the base and then worked around. The mix didn't react well to being played with much as it wouldn't bond with the dry glossy finish i was putting it over and the more i attempted to sculpt the more it came away. It dried like a big sort of goopy mess but i did get to attack it some more in it's final stages when it was nearly hard. That sounded wrong, but we are in the navy here...so carry on chaps! After drying it crazy cracked everywhere like mud in the sun and ended up showing the brighter blue through below which was a nice effect and something to store away for the future. I attempted to highlight the waves with a grey/green mix and then a finer and light drybrush grey/white/green mix over the top of that. This is where it was at that stage. At this stage i was liking the colours and thought the overall effects were looking pretty cool! The next part was to add a wet finish, i didn't want to use the glue so lacking anything else i dived in with some of the krystal clear mixed with water and gave it a hit. The big thing i took away from this was how the gloss really affects the colours. I was happy with the pre gloss look above, when glossed as below, not so much. This first pic shows the swells much better that i was aiming for when i burnt the foam before laying the paper, they turned out fairly decent yeah? So after that experiment I'm looking at two products for the real base, one is Vallejo Water Effects, a gel that has a semi scultable properties and then a finisher coat called Still Water. The gel i can mix colours with and it should be a lot easier to work with than my random flour mix. The whole paper and glue on foam base seems solid though although i may swap out the TP for water colour paper as the texture looks better. I'm slowly realising that this project is going to need a case, for dust purposes, and is going to end up somewhere between 75-80 cm long by 35-40 wide to accommodate a decent wake off the rear and sides.
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#4478966 - 06/19/19 08:10 PM
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The seascape tests are looking really good. I agree with 'framing' it more tightly, as above.
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#4479022 - 06/20/19 03:40 AM
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#4479614 - 06/23/19 04:18 PM
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Crazy good!
And a wood varnished edge, please.
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#4479647 - 06/23/19 07:57 PM
Re: Remember how i said 1/48 was too small, well guess what this belongs to and i 'll start posting the kit- EDIT -Warspite 1/350
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Wow, very nice work on that ocean.
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#4479674 - 06/24/19 12:16 AM
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That base turned out really nice, congrats! Not sure though, maybe lower the hull a few milimeters more? Check out the pic here at 4min, there seems to be less black waterline visible. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t-_ExMo0g-s
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#4479675 - 06/24/19 12:19 AM
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Crazy good!
And a wood varnished edge, please. +1... Maybe some varnished/weathered small scale manilla line around the edge?? It's just freakin beeUtiFul as is mate.
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