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  1. Canute
    Craig, we can neither confirm nor deny that has happened here.
  2. Canute
    Yeah, the ship modeling websites, like Steel Navy and Model warships, seem to lack the kinds of discussions the aircraft and armor folks have. Outside of what Greg and a few other MSW members are doing of late, we're in that same boat, so to speak. So, I surf the aircraft sites for tips and techniques. I've been reading up on the painting stuff by a gentleman named Mig Jimenez. He's Spanish, has a line of paint and weathering "fluids" and publishes books, pamphlets and YouTube videos on using his products. The weather will break and you'll be able to tear along with your painting. It's been pouring out here; about 4 inches at least since Tuesday morning. I'm a ways up a hillside, but the runoff raises heck with our gravel road. Several cuts across the road, so we need to crawl out or risk removing the entire underframe.
  3. Canute
    Hmm, I could get to the carrier paint guide with no hitches. Firewalls? Yes, when you go to the base Cybermodeler website and follow the links, there are a big spread of colors based on scale fade.
  4. Canute
    I suspect most modern navies use anti-slip paints nowadays. A coat of flat paint should suffice at the scales we build in. This is a paint guide for a US carrier, but it has a number of paint brands and also adjusts for scale. Base chart: https://www.cybermodeler.com/naval/essex/essex_profile33-10a.shtml Scale fade discussion: https://www.cybermodeler.com/color/scale_effect.shtml
  5. Canute
    I'd use the Lifecolour thinner, since it is formulated for that paint. Without that, I'd use distilled water; no telling what might be added to your municipal water. I wouldn't use the Lifecolour thinner for cleanup, too pricy for that. You could make your own, as this fellow did: https://www.cybermodeler.com/tips/thinner.shtml
  6. Canute
    Piet, thank you for letting us see a part of your personal connection with the star-crossed ships of ABDA. You've done a superb job in your memorial.
  7. Canute
    Railroads used something called car cement to seal up the panel seams on metal roofs and that gunk was black to start. Might use a charcoal grey for that. Straight black would be way too dark.
  8. Canute
    Hmm, I see another goodie.
  9. Canute
    Craig, sign me up for this one, too. Quite a novel ship.
  10. Canute
    Same here, running Win7 and Firefox, I can see all the pix on this log.
  11. Canute
    I guess so, Mark. I've seen airplane models done up with salt. Didn't realize you wash off the areas with water, thought it was done dry.
  12. Canute
    Greg, this chipping fluid you used intrigues me. How do you apply it? Is it random or applied across the whole surface? Do you leave any on the hull after you brush it?
  13. Canute
    The only time I was dry in Nam was at altitude in my Phantom. Humidity was off the charts. 2inches an hour rainfall to boot. Glad the Connie is traveling well, Ken.
  14. Canute
    Hmm, another technique. I think I like the pant leg method, a bit of dust/dirt versus grease. Any grease/oils are anathema for our paints sticking properly.
  15. Canute
    I'll second that.
  16. Canute
    OC, you may want to consider working from the center-line of the ship out to the bulwarks. The superstructure looks like a mountain, so you may want to work from the middle out.
  17. Canute
    I use both tapes, although I try to cut the blue painter's tape with a straight edge to make sure the edges are sharp. Also stick it on my pant leg to reduce the stickiness of the blue tape.
  18. Canute
    That's what the Tamiya masking tape is for. Helps prevent messing up paint jobs.
  19. Canute
    Carl, did you cut individual strips or is it a piece of scribed wood or plastic? Nicely done, either way. Did you pre-shade the hull?
  20. Canute
    Okey-dokey.
  21. Canute
    Working on stuff that tiny, I'd recommend about 30 minutes and switch off to bigger stuff. Can't work too well when you're cross-eyed.
  22. Canute
    Carl, that was in an era of multiple marches for temperance. And the US did have that Constitutional Amendment (#18) banning alcohol in 1919. We woke up and repealed the 18th with the 21st in 1933. Prohibition of alcohol didn't sit well with most folks.
  23. Canute
    The USN is officially "dry". They gave up shipboard alcohol way back when. Strongest stuff they serve is coffee. That's the start of the reference to coffee as "joe", since the Secretary of the Navy when it took place was a gentleman by the name of Josephus Daniels. I suspect there have been a gazillion workarounds over the years.
  24. Canute
    Cripes, that's a miniature of every single piece of the real thing. Good luck, Kevin.
  25. Canute
    Splendid Cats, Queen Elizabeth fast battleships, Ostfrieseland, lots of stuff. Would be fun.

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