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You did it again NiIs, surpassed my expectations ..; B E A U TI F U L .... (I can stil spell)

Hi Michael,
 
I`m following your restoration with great interest, for its not only showing your progress in work, but here and there also a little glimpse at how the builders made it. I wish you that you keep up with the drive and pace and turn the "Albertic" to new blossom for display again.
I also have many over 10 years old  Humbrol paints, but most of them have dried out although the cans were closed.....
 
Nils

Hi Nils I consider you as one of the masters of this type of ship model, so any advice that you have to offer will most certainly be welcome. The tins I have seem to be OK after a while of remixing the pigment from its long rest on the bottom of the tins I use a piece of stainless steel that I salvaged from a wiper blade as the tool to remix
 

 
The straight end works to dig into the pigment to break it up and the folded end works like a sort of potato masher once the pigment is mobile. 
 
Bob Not sure on this one yet, I might have to do a spot of practicing with my ruling pens and compasses, its been a while.
I have some very fine lining brushes so might go with that option.
I am reminded of a video I watched some time ago where someone was doing a decorative glaze on some china and they had obviously been doing the same motion for a long time and made it look like child's play.
 
The other thought might be to use the type of pens that are used for doing the Pysanka
but to use enamel instead of wax. and I would not need the heat either. This might be an interesting tool to sort out for painting.
 
Has anyone used something like this for paint?
 
Michael

sweet, sweet, Igor,
 
what was first, the shaped bottle (flacon), or the idea to find a mini bottle that fits a lighthouse ?
 
super work !
 
Nils

Update
 
slowly working in forward direction on the boats deck.......
Last two days  made this little intermediate platform with deck-planking and two skylights ( two more lights and three vents also still to get mounted on this).
Am nearly at the position of the 3 rd. funnel....
 
Nils
 

 
 

 
 

 
 

Update
 
slowly working in forward direction on the boats deck.......
Last two days  made this little intermediate platform with deck-planking and two skylights ( two more lights and three vents also still to get mounted on this).
Am nearly at the position of the 3 rd. funnel....
 
Nils
 

 
 

 
 

 
 

Update
 
machine room skylights complete....
 
Nils
 

 
 

Update
 
slowly working in forward direction on the boats deck.......
Last two days  made this little intermediate platform with deck-planking and two skylights ( two more lights and three vents also still to get mounted on this).
Am nearly at the position of the 3 rd. funnel....
 
Nils
 

 
 

 
 

 
 

Update
 
slowly working in forward direction on the boats deck.......
Last two days  made this little intermediate platform with deck-planking and two skylights ( two more lights and three vents also still to get mounted on this).
Am nearly at the position of the 3 rd. funnel....
 
Nils
 

 
 

 
 

 
 

Update
 
machine room skylights complete....
 
Nils
 

 
 

Update
 
slowly working in forward direction on the boats deck.......
Last two days  made this little intermediate platform with deck-planking and two skylights ( two more lights and three vents also still to get mounted on this).
Am nearly at the position of the 3 rd. funnel....
 
Nils
 

 
 

 
 

 
 

Ah yes Jan...that is why I still have this 40 year old Humbrol enamel, one of the best model paints that was ever on the market for hand painting in my humble opinion.
 

 
 
Seriously though I hear what you are saying and my intention is to do as little painting as is possible. blending in a 1/16th line of paint will be a lot less hassle than a large repaint. The collapsible lifeboat that was the most damaged is about as far as I hope to have to go regarding replacing broken wooden parts. There are a few bits missing and I will tackle them as I get to them.
 

 
I am going to use the enamel paint to fill the joint lines where possible this will take time to let the paint harden but will give me a lot of control over these small areas. In all likelihood Bassett Lowke used a very fine grind of enamel although they might also have used Lacquer, which is what we did at Allmodels when I was a young man in the early 60's we matched all our paints from the British Standard Colour charts I cannot remember the actual name of the Standards now  but we only used the primaries and black and white to make any colour we needed.
 
You are right in that this will be one of the most challenging areas but I do have a little background from the old school so I will be proceeding with a great deal of caution.
 
  Druxey, yes adding a little grime will no doubt be in order.
 
Denis, my plan is to do as little to disturb the original surfaces as possible, the colour oxidation is already apparent regarding the areas of the deck that were hidden from exposure when I removed the structures from the funnel deck. The white will be the least problematic in my view. the most difficult I think will be the side of the hull, I will mix some colour let them dry after some initial test sample to get close, and then use the damaged area to test them with very small spots of the Humbrol to see how well they will blend.
 
The next picture shows the aft funnel structure and the area highlighted is where one of the tiny broken bits somehow avoided being swept up it is glued back on with carpenters glue. The vertical rectangular section was snapped completely in half and a section at the bottom was broken off as well.
 
The section highlighted on the collapsible lifeboat is one of the supports for the top boats and is the only pattern left, all the rest are missing from the port side boat deck, I managed to pull a small piece of similar Maple from my scrap maple drawer, so they will be easy enough to replace.
 

 
time for some breakfast and a coffee.
 
Michael 
 
 

Update
 
slowly working in forward direction on the boats deck.......
Last two days  made this little intermediate platform with deck-planking and two skylights ( two more lights and three vents also still to get mounted on this).
Am nearly at the position of the 3 rd. funnel....
 
Nils
 

 
 

 
 

 
 

Nenad,
 
hatch with partial drawn back canvas, great detail  
 
Nils

Update
 
slowly working in forward direction on the boats deck.......
Last two days  made this little intermediate platform with deck-planking and two skylights ( two more lights and three vents also still to get mounted on this).
Am nearly at the position of the 3 rd. funnel....
 
Nils
 

 
 

 
 

 
 

Update
 
slowly working in forward direction on the boats deck.......
Last two days  made this little intermediate platform with deck-planking and two skylights ( two more lights and three vents also still to get mounted on this).
Am nearly at the position of the 3 rd. funnel....
 
Nils
 

 
 

 
 

 
 

Thank you, Nils!
This bottle was me for a long time, but I did not know how to use it.

Update
 
slowly working in forward direction on the boats deck.......
Last two days  made this little intermediate platform with deck-planking and two skylights ( two more lights and three vents also still to get mounted on this).
Am nearly at the position of the 3 rd. funnel....
 
Nils
 

 
 

 
 

 
 

sweet, sweet, Igor,
 
what was first, the shaped bottle (flacon), or the idea to find a mini bottle that fits a lighthouse ?
 
super work !
 
Nils

Hi Bill,
 
presume you mean the rims of the skylight panel lids....
The rims are made by inserting 2,5 ² mm lead sockets (for conduct wire ends) through the drilled holes in the brass panel, and soldering these to the panel. The German word is "Aderendhuelsen", sorry do`n t know the engl. term. I also used these for all the hull`s portholes
The remaining end at the rearside is then cut off, The skylight ports remain without "glassings"
 
Nils
 

 
 

Update
 
machine room skylights (dry fit ) nearly complete.....
 
Nils
 

 
 

 
 

 
 

Update
 
slowly working in forward direction on the boats deck.......
Last two days  made this little intermediate platform with deck-planking and two skylights ( two more lights and three vents also still to get mounted on this).
Am nearly at the position of the 3 rd. funnel....
 
Nils
 

 
 

 
 

 
 

Update
 
machine room skylights complete....
 
Nils
 

 
 

Update
 
slowly working in forward direction on the boats deck.......
Last two days  made this little intermediate platform with deck-planking and two skylights ( two more lights and three vents also still to get mounted on this).
Am nearly at the position of the 3 rd. funnel....
 
Nils
 

 
 

 
 

 
 

Update
 
slowly working in forward direction on the boats deck.......
Last two days  made this little intermediate platform with deck-planking and two skylights ( two more lights and three vents also still to get mounted on this).
Am nearly at the position of the 3 rd. funnel....
 
Nils