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  1. GrandpaPhil
    Bob, Gnomer is doing amazing work! Your King of the Mississippi is looking great!
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    Incredible work!
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    I personally use an antique gold (nonmetallic) color for parts that would have been represented as being gold, or gilded.
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    The on the model paintwork is done: Next up, I am going to seal my work in and make some “decals”. I am hand painting the “decals” on regular paper and then sealing them, prior to cutting them out and installing them. I cut some 1/8” wide strips of paper to make the stripes from. I just need to paint them and seal them prior to installation. Card modeling has been very informative for me and has helped me develop my skills tremendously.
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    Chris, Your Speeljacht is looking good!
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    Painting continues:
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    I haven’t gotten a lot of modeling done lately. I discovered the Uncharted games and have played through the first two games. I’m half way through the third one now. I picked back up on this one: The wing supports and props are painted. The engines are base coated and are awaiting drybrushing with a gunmetal color. I figured out how to do the light blue stripes. I’m going to precut strips out of paper and paint those. Then just glue them down. Painting civilian stuff (like aircraft) is like painting High Elves or Eldar (from the Warhammer franchise), it’s very clean cut and not roughed up like most of my models.
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    I remember the instructions in the Heller kit being quite excellent. They are (or were) in French though. Be careful, the French word pont means both deck and bridge. Google translate will translate it as bridge. That caused me some confusion back then.
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    Welcome!
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    Congratulations! Beautifully done!
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    Looking forward to this!
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    This model was one of my absolute favorite builds! You will enjoy it! From my building experience (granted from 2007-2008 time frame), I would recommend swapping the masts and yards out with wood. AAMM has the plans for La Reale: https://boutique.aamm.fr/plan-reale-de-france They are most excellent and ran me about $50 shipped. I bought them to build another La Reale, one of these days. I am looking forward to seeing this build!
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    Welcome!
  14. GrandpaPhil
    I have the Sergal plans for Soleil Royale. The Artesania Latina kit looks a lot nicer. As far as Sovereign of the Seas goes, the John McKay book is very good, and the Amati plans are very nice.
  15. GrandpaPhil
    If you have an actual bathtub, you can fill it with really hot water and submerge the model in it and apply pressure to take the bend out that way.
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    I paint everything on my models. Then you can select the exact shade of brown that you would like.
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    Welcome!
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    Welcome!
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    Nice find!
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    Welcome!
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    Lol, I have the same bald head. Plastic masts, especially from old plastic kits, tend to end up fragile/brittle. I straightened the spars out on an old Heller La Reale with heat. They were fine for a couple of years, then they buckled. Between that and a couple other issues with that model, it ended up a total loss. I would remake the masts from wood personally.
  22. GrandpaPhil
    Incredible work!
  23. GrandpaPhil
    Eberhardt, Excellent work on Wespe! Congratulations!
  24. GrandpaPhil
    Welcome!
  25. GrandpaPhil
    Very nicely done!

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