
GrandpaPhil
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Very good idea! That looks amazing! I will have to pick up a roll of that foil tape the next time I go to the hardware store! I have several armored warships coming up.
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Thank you very much! The painting progresses: And I’ve been working on the rudder: I made the banding: Now I just need to decide if all the banding is being painted black or the parts below the waterline will be painted white: And because I do not like moving parts on a model, I glued the whipstaff in place: Also, edge sealing when masking off for painting works really well for preventing bleed through. And I discovered that most of my pieces are under thickness with my new calipers. But, since this has been the same throughout the build, I am not worried about it.
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Barncave Shipyard by mbp521 - Scale 1:1
GrandpaPhil replied to mbp521's topic in Non-ship/categorised builds
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Thank you all very much for the comments, the likes and just for stopping by! I am using the Matthew Baker drawing kindly provided by @Louie da fly for my basic color scheme: To that effect, I primed black and painted in the lower hull: The waterline is marked. I have a waterline marker that I bought from Model Expo back in 2014 or 2017. I replaced the pencil with a black colored pencil this time, and marked it directly on the paint. It worked well. Now to paint in the ochre strip between the two lower sets of wales. Then to tape and paint the dark brown below the lower wales. Lastly, I will touch up as needed.
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That’s a personal choice. I personally like to display all sails as being fully raised and set.
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The frieze and stern painting look amazing! Incredible work!
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The port side is planked up to the middle wales: Once all glue dries, I’ll trim everything that needs trimmed, fill all gaps, add the stern post and then seal and paint up to the middle wales. Next, will be the rudder, to include the tiller. After that I’ll outfit the gundeck and then seal it in with the main deck. Due to the lack of visibility in the interior decks, I am not going to bother planking the inside of the bulwarks on the gundeck, I am just going to paint it.
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It’s a really good thing that I am going to be painting the hull of this model. I am not the best planker in the world. But, I know this, so I make up for it by ensuring that the hull will be well painted after I fill the gaps! Truth be told, I like making my models look like giant wargaming miniatures. I try to make them look as realistic and weather beaten as possible, so having to do some filling and painting is part and parcel to that goal. I built up a Mamoli Endeavour once and left it bare wood. Technically it came out just fine. But, I hate that model. It is my least favorite model that I have ever built. It looks too sterile and commercial.
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Lettering
GrandpaPhil replied to bobc622's topic in Painting, finishing and weathering products and techniques
The stuff that you can do with the Word Art is pretty neat too: It took me a bit to figure it out, but once I did it turned out well.
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