Ronald-V

I don't think you will be able to verify such small details...and it comes down to what you like/find beautiful. Maybe there was a general practice with shipbuilding and trim edges, who knows. Coincidentally, I was discussing this with someone yesterday...that it won't even really be visible in the final result unless you really pay attention. But even then, it probably won't be...damn, look at that stupid butt joint over there😆. No, I see it more as an interesting challenge to make a small part of the ship beautiful, or as best as I can within my capabilities. If you do that as often as possible (and as long as it's still fun), I think you'll end up with a very nice overall result. And whether that little thing stands out or not in the final result...it doesn't really matter. If you can enjoy making something in the moment, then I think it's already achieved its purpose. When I bought this ship, I thought...if this is going to be the only show-stopper I make...to the best of my ability, and work on it like I have endless time...let's see how far we get. So that's kind of my approach (also to justify the high cost of the kit to myself, because they are not cheap for me ). By the way...now that I've made considerable progress with the build, my thoughts are starting to wander to what I'd like to build next, but that will happen naturally. I'm still a long way from that! And again...thanks everyone for taking a look and liking...I really appreciate it!

Welcome back

My condolences for your loss...and wish you all the strength to get through this difficult time 🙏

Welcome to MSW! I really like your topic title Ship modeling is indeed a hobby you have to experience to get better at (with many things, of course), and it sounds like you've already learned a lot with your first model! You've already made it beautifully. I hope you enjoy reading and building here.

The quality of this new generation kits is so high! Great to see

Thanks for your thoughts! I'm experimenting at the moment with making the rails myself to get a nice joint on the corner. If I can pull that off...then I will decide further on color.

Welcome! And that's a nice model you have build

Thanks for your input Brunnels! 👍

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