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Paul Jarman
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Does painting mean covering the mistake?
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I believe it is all down to personal choice. I personaly prefare to paint my models. The ones I have made from wood do look nice unpainted, but I find them much better looking painted. And also what type of ship you are building. I look at a lot of models here on MSW and online and usually find that most of the masted ships do look better unpainted. However when I go on holiday to a coastal area and visit one of the harbours, especially a working fishing harbour I enjoy lookig at all the boats in all their different colours and find a lot of inspiration for my own models. Paul -
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Queen Mary 2 2004 by Dave Wood - 1:500 - 3D printed - Ocean Liner
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Double checking through the instructions and I had omitted one small detail. There are various ladders going down from the deck which I had fitted. For some reason I forgot to add the hand rails and have now added them. Luckily I managed to add them in the cramped space on the deck and only knocked one very small part off. I have also added the lumber to the funnel bases as suggested on the HMS Hood web site. Also have been adding various hand rails around the hull. All the guns and rocket launchers are in place. I am adding various details to the deck before starting on the ships boats then the bridge and masts. I will also have to make a decision on the ladders going down the hull. They where dismantled and stored when at sea. And I have to admit I don't like them as they take away the sleek lines of the hull when the model is displayed. I may add them on the side that will not be seen once displayed and decide if I like them or not.
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Have got all my models displayed in one place rather than randomly displayed around the flat. The right hand side will eventually have the Hood, Bismarck, Prinz Eugen and Prince of Wales on display.
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The 3 pompoms made up. To say they where frustrating to build is an understatement. There are 44 pieces of PE added to the guns. Working in a very cramped area was hell. Pictures 1 & 2 are how they would look built out of the box. There would just be the hand rails to add to them. The top of the ammo boxed are the shells for the gun. The final picture is how they where supposed to be built following the MK1 instructions. Once the boxes where put together there where 8 longer boxes that went into the back. I did make one up but it just did not look right. So I used the plastic guns and built the PE around them. They do look a lot better when viewed normally and although not perfect by any means they do look far better for all that PE.
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Good tip I will try that. I use a pick up pencil and find the tip a bit to big for really small PE parts. Paul
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Work area pictures only
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Paul Jarman replied to Johnny Mike's topic in Modeling tools and Workshop Equipment
My work area is in my bedroom.
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Thanks alan,they certainly are. Should look better as I go. If Iadded all the PE there would be around 40 extra parts to add. After these are the 3 pompoms and they look even more challenging. As I've mentioned before, the next few kits will be out of the box builds using the kit PE rather than buying an upgrade kit. Even though it does lmprove the look so much better. Paul
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Working on the 4 inch guns. there are seven of these to make up. luckily there is one extra in the kit. Which is good as the first try was not very good. The problem was the PE walls. They touch the roof of the shield if not fitted exactly right. So I found it better to use the plastic walls that I've sanded down. This allows the gun barrels to be held in place correctly and they can be moved up and down. The PE walls are then installed and glued against them. there is quite a bit of PE I have not added simply because it is so tiny that it can not be seen once the gun is put together and painted. Cutting the plastic barrels off and adding the rolled metal ones was the most time consuming part. drilling the holes out in such a small piece requires a bit of patience because of how small and deep the holes need to be to except the rear of the barrels. The pictures show the gun as built out of the box, which does not have any PE to add to it. The others show the PE to be added and how the gun looks with the extra bits added. And the plastic parts cleaned prepared and ready to be made up with the added PE for the final six guns. And how the model is looking at present. I thought there was something on the TV screen and was trying to clean it up before realising the camera had picked up a tiny bit of fluff on the tip of the gun. As always the parts look way better when viewed normally.
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Working on the Quad guns. These are so frustrating to build with all the PE involved. There is some work to do tidying them up but they do look a lot better when viewed normally. the four ammunition drums are made up of six very small discs that have to be glued together. And they are a small as they look. I did one gun with plastic parts but the PE ones do look better. The barrels look a lot better than the plastic moulded ones. And also I have found the perfect tool for the PE the carpet monster gobbles up. This is a dog hair brush. Brushed fairly strongly through the carpet it works a treat. Wish I had thought of this before. One of the discs flew off and not only did it pick that up I also found various small PE parts that I thought where long gone.
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Funnels completed and glued in place. The PE adds a nice bit of detail. The cages on top have come out well considering how fragile they are. I will be adding the binoculars next But not the PE ones, the plastic ones are far better. PE is mostly good but when it is a part that sits on a column it just doesn't work. They would just be flat parts that don't look right.
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Nice one,excellent prize. The Pontos upgades are far more extensive than the MK1 kit. And I believe the Pontos set includes the updated rear funnel. You will enjoy building this excellent kit. And the HMS Hood website is a brilliant resource for the many alterations if you decide to make them.
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Quite a lot of detail added to the bottom part of the bridge. The paravanes are the upgraded ones. I have included one of them with one as made out of the box to show how much difference there is. The ladders have been added, although most of them are difficult to see below the top section. I think the next few models will be built out of the box. I enjoy adding all the extra detail but it does add a lot of time to the build.
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I have decided to do the bottom section of the bridge. Still a lot more to add to this inside and on the outside. I also decided to add the red and blue insignia to the gun turret. I had some self adhesive round labels which where the perfect size. After a bit of trial and error working out how best to paint it I settled on painting the blue on top of the red. This looks a lot better then the bright blue colour. It also looks better on the gun than in the picture I have zoomed in on as I have tidied up the edges and added another coat of blue. I have painted it over with a thin coat of matt varnish to seal it in place. I am adding so much extra detail now using the MK1 upgrade kit. Which is improving the look of the model so well. Still lots to do on the shelter deck alone before getting to the upper part of the bridge and masts.
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It's getting a bit complex now. I'm adding lots of details to the various structures. Probably around 80% of them are upgrades from the MK1 kit. Trumpeter have made some strange decisions with this kit. It is a quality kit to a very high standard. There are quite a few PE ladders and steps. But where these are molded into the plastic they have not replaced them. But the MK1 kit does have all the replacements for these parts. Pictures 1 and 2 are the wireless rig. Trumpeter have the layout slightly wrong. and the roof was flat not recessed. this has been remedied with some thin plastic sheet. And the aerial spreaders where made with some very thin PE that was also not quite right. I have made the spreaders from very thin plastic rod based on the HMS Hood web site. In picture three the tripod director has had the plastic one replaced with a resin one which is a lot more detailed. The black in the windows is lacquer paint and looks far better than the close up. They catch the light at times and look like glare from the glass windows. Still lots to add to the smaller deck parts before getting round to the bridge. PE has it's good and bad bits . It is excellent for adding a lot of detail that would otherwise not be on the model. On the other hand it does add a lot of extra time to the build.
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