Ronald-V

Interesting experiment! Curious how this goes A tip...work as if you have infinite time, then everything will work out fine.

That first photo was more to show that the wooden trim wasn't perfectly parallel to the windows. This wasn't the fault of the laser-cut trim, haha, but my incorrect placement In the photo below (ignore the hand), you can see the corners better, which I don't particularly like. The bright light makes the end grain hard to see, but I don't think the corners are very well executed anyway. 😜

I completely agree with you. The only thing I'm a little hesitant about is that the rest of the rails on the side of the ship is only varnished (and i'm not going to paint these). And how the richly decorated painted side gallery won't look too mismatched with those rails...but I'll only find out by trying.

Thank you for your time reacting! 🙏 That was my plan indeed...the original trim can't be used in there natural color anymore, because of the modifications I would do. So I can paint them yellow anyway and if it's not to my liking...make different trims from scratch

Thank Frecap, but I showed the examples of Blue Ensign and Brunnels for the colors of the wooden decoration strips under and above the windows, natural or yellow painted. If your answer was about that, then I misunderstood it

Okay...I'd already added quite a few extra elements, but...as you can see, it doesn't quite align great under the windows. The more I added, the more it started to look....meh, not so great to me, because everything just piles up, more things getting not aligned. I also wasn't entirely happy with how the wooden trim on the corners of the stern and side gallery connected. Because the trim on the stern side was laser-cut to size, you can see the end grain of the trim connecting from the side gallery. And because it's varnished, it really stands out. I saw Blue Ensign ran into this problem in his blog post as well. Yesterday, I removed everything you see here except the windows and am starting over. Possible solutions are: making the trim myself, as Blue Ensign has already demonstrated. Or using the old ones and painting them yellow, as Brunnels showed in his blog post. (This would also be accurate compared to the paintings of the Sphinx). It just depends on what I like. I'm going to put the ship aside for a few days, because it all feels a bit much at the moment and when I feel a bit fresher I'll see what I'm going to do. I'm also adding the two examples from Blue Ensign and Brunnels as a reference to what's possible. I'm also curious to know what the preference of you guys is Blue Ensign with self made trims and natural pear Or Brunnels painted trims

This must be really fun for you to design these little gadgets I asume

Very nice website! Wish you all the best with this new endeavour 🙂👍

Lovely paintjob, nice matt black!

It's a homemade wipe-on poly. So I thinned a polyurethane varnish with thinner that you can use like you would use wop. But for these small areas I use a brush and wipe off the excess after a few seconds. Never used a airbrush for this, because after a few coates it looks really equal in coverage. And because I have it quite thin...it doesn't look thick or something. So I don't see the need for an airbrush here 🙂

Just a little update in the form of a video of what I'm doing. I've been waiting for this for a long time... finally some varnish on the "stern counter." That bare wood was staring at me all this time😩, while the rest was already covered in varnish or paint. But now that I'd attached the wooden trim, I could finally brush on the first coat. I think I'll add another coat or two later, and then it should all fit together nicely. 😁

Both models looking great!

Welcome to MSW 🙂

That looks really neat! And indeed complicated

Have a great start with this one Bob! Good luck!