RGL
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It is very red isn’t it, almost orange! I won’t grunge up the rest of the decks until all the details are added, (there’s a lot to go), and then I’ll probably use pastels. The upper hull has not been touched yet as I wanted to add the frames that’s hold the SS19’s as they have scuppers on the real thing (which I have added) and the railings as well so I know where the rust and grunge streaks will orintate themselves on the hull. I think Soviet propaganda would not allow photos of dirty ships, and this beast is circa mid 70’s. HD photos of him these days show a lot of sins covered by paint. -
IJN grey, modulated with gull grey then oversprayed with 50% light grey all covered with a blue filter.
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The main superstructure was glued down today. There is a heap of aftermarket to go on this, a radar, rocket launchers, CiWs and probably about 10 whip arials (as they are acupuncture needles they need to go on after also I don’t put them through my hand). I’ve grunged it up a bit and tried to dry fit the 16 rocket canisters on the side which should fit flush to the hull but they don’t. Meh.
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Next is to throw a weeks with of preparation, the SAMs, fire controllers, davits with added details (seriously they were plastic sticks), battle cameras, the life bouy canisters, a few more winches
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The crane, apart from the plastic frame is pretty much scratch built. Also you can see the tannoy and the first of 2 ships bells.
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It more so the manual handling of att hung railing that does it I think. I’ve now glued down the stacks and the hangar plus the tops of the rocket silos.
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The hangar, everything has been glued on but not weathered yet. The thing about PE railing is no matter how well it’s primed, the paint chips off.
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One update PE set plus scratch/spares. I have finally received all of the other aftermarket for him being the guns and rocket launchers
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Apart from a pedestal that will belay part of the cage arial assembly (in the centre of the circle of railing), I’m pretty much finished this bit. I will paint the whip arials black (they are acupuncture needes) and rust her up a tad. The two black blobs immediatly in front in front of the stacks are great big fenders. In the drone footage from 2017 in Hong Kong they are visible I’ll grunge tho area up a bit yet. The little platforms on each each side with the target rings are the same as the real thing and I used spares glued onto pedestals.
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So today I also did the anchor chains (the kit gives you a rubbish molded one, painted all the little bits that go around the superstructures that I have to add to it before I can throw it together. They’ll all need a black wash and a lighter dry brush before being added. As an example, the little grey thimbles are 1/350 PA’s from LArsenal in France. The real ship is covered in them like a teenagers pimples.
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Plodding along, lots of little pieces to put together and paint. The life raft capsules sizes are supposed to slot into the deck but the real thing has them on racks with black straps. Sprayed them white, have them a wash and added some denier thread as the black straps.
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No offence taken Mark, I like to find different ships. This one is a bit old and clunky to build. The PE is from last decade, but the new stuff coming out is amazing and I get bored easily
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The lower hull is now weathered, I’m yet to add a few bits of rust here and there, but a light overspray of grey grunge, with dilute black on the bottom over that and a ring or green Alge around the sides. I just feel it looks less like a toy (which it is really I can just afford to spend more on one) and more like a replica.
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To answer your question Mr Taylor, it is pretty much used by armour modellers, and does need a fair bit of dilution but it deepens the colours and adds depth. If you go to U-Tube, and search Varyag or brother Moskva there is footage of both of them letting loose with all they have, in a way more awesome than any broadside in the sheer destruction over distance he carries.
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So, while waiting for the postman to bring my AK Blue Filter, I masked and then gave the superstructures 3 shades of grey. No sooner had I finished then Australia Post arrived so I could add the blue filter, which a) brings out the modulation and a) makes it NOT look like another IJN ship on my shelf. All thown togeather in a dry fit it should eventually come up ok. That is the bulk work done, now the small work which means I’m 50% done. You may notice the filthy great gap in the deck will be concealed.
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Just awesome, the bigger the ship to more tiny details to forget! I just don’t think I can face a battleship for a while. You’re doing a marvellous job.
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No, seriously that’s why I ask, Pat has been a very good mentor to me, and his former career makes him a subject matter expert (not to mention airbrush skills). So, my first racing stripe, ever! Tomorrow I’ll give him a coat of varnish.
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I did one lighter shade of grey to take away the over accent of the panels, then added grey to the multiple bollards etc. I did nothing to mask these pieces as would still be doing it in 2019. When I grunge it up it will cover a lot of sins. The hull just needs its’ white strip then I can seal it up with a varnish before I add the decals and start weathering
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So, I get a couple of hours in after work, bringing up the panel lines then blending them in. I Made a huge error and stripped a large section of paint off as I used too much thinner but quickly rectified it with an overspray and I’ll let it set now, I’m quite satisfied. Even more so if the tape comes away clean.
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As I had time, I painted up the last of the sides near the heliport and added some PE from spares, the did a LOT of masking. The first of the hull coat. You can see the panels on the side which I etched in. Back to work tomorrow so no progress for a while.
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Railings added (well, most of them, lots of little bits to add but im waiting for a blue filter to arrive (next year apparently) before I can progress. It looks very bland I know, but it should come up OK. There are 4 major belaying points for cage aerials yet to go.
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