Old Collingwood

Evening all, more  work  has been done  on my  odds and ends  -  painted and weathered  Pelisse,  will  have  a  flat top coat  over the top when  fully dry,  the  muskets  are getting some colour,  and  the  knapsacks  are getting their  straps  painted, still  more work to do.

With the  Pelisse  -  I first  layed down a Black primer, then  Dark Green followed  with a  bit of White  mixed with the Green  to  make a slightly lighter shade - ths  was painted on the  high light  areas  leaving the  sunken shadow areas  Dark Green,  I then  went over  with a  wash,  then  finished  with a  light dry brush dusting of my  dust paint,   its  made to look  dusty as it will  be sitting on the  dirty dusty road.

OC.

Glad  you was able to get  back  on   -  loving the  work.

OC.

Congratulations  -  what you  did  was  to  convert  a  very  poor old  kit  that  out of the  box  just looked poor  in quality and detail,  and  you have given it  some life  - and  now  placed in a  well deserved  place  in its  case.

OC.

Good  to see  you back on  your build  -  sometimes  sme time off  helps  to get ones mojo  back.

OC.

22 minutes ago, CDW said:

It may not be long. My niece and her husband both work in the maritime industry. She is an executive for an ocean-going tug company, and he is the first mate on a super-tanker. Their new home is decorated with many nautical items, and I mentioned to him he needed a ship model on display. I am going to give him several choices with that PT boat being one, and then build his choice for display in their new home. Will wait to see what he decides he would prefer.  

Sounds good mate.

OC.

42 minutes ago, RGL said:

Now the camo pattern, I’m pretty much going off the kit colour call outs and the existing pieces in museums 

Cant wait for the  pics  mate.

OC.

Cant wait for you  to do a  log  on the  MTB.

OC.

That is an  Absolute  Beauty.

OC.

Youa re  certainly being tested  there  Alan  -  keep  going  mate   it will  work out  in the end.

OC.

Evening all,   bit of an update  -  the seller  has  issued a  refund in Full,  and  says  no need  to  return  the  broken  base,  so turned out ok in the end.

OC.

Welcome  back  buddy.

OC.

That looks  Superb  Gary.

OC.

55 minutes ago, king derelict said:

Run a layer of paper soaked in dilute white glue over the foam and any cracks will be lost beneath it. I tend to think of the foam layer as the base and refine it with paper towel etc 

alan

Thank you  kindly  Alan, will  look at doing that  after  my  sanding shaping  is done,   I will  have Alot  of  cutting  -  sanding away  of  the  top  where  it will  go  from about  3mm   thick  on the  one edge  to  anout  10mm  and   the other  opposing  edges  it will  go from about 20mm   to   around 25mm.

OC.

That  looks  so nice  -  what a  nice  tidy  fit  mate.

OC.

6 minutes ago, CDW said:

Yes, the cockpit and wheel well slide in from the back.

The are quite a few modern kits that are using slide mold technology already, though this is the first aircraft kit I've built where the entire forward fuselage is molded that way. On other kits, including this one, it's often found used in the ordnance pieces. In armor kits, the gun barrels. Flyhawk 1:700 ship models use slide molds as well.

Ah  yes  of course  aka  Flyhawks  hulls   (I should  have remembered that)

OC.

What I shall do is  - await  the  reply back from the  seller, if he is  refunding me  with me keeping  this, I will  still  have enough  material  to  work  with  as  I  ordered larger than I needed,  so I will be able  to  cut and sand  the  pieces  I want  and  glue them down on to the  plastic  base   (using PVA  Glue I have to hand)  then just  shape  the  rest of the pieces as  I go,   and  light  hairline cracks  wont matter  as I have  a roll  of the  modellers  grass  mat  to  go over the  top  so the  cracks  or seems  where the pieces join  will  not be seen.

OC.

8 minutes ago, CDW said:

Before I cut the forward fuselage from the sprue, I wanted you to see the slide mold technology used to form the forward fuselage in one piece instead of left and right halves. No seam to deal with.

 

 

What an  excellent idea,  so I guess  you  slide  the  tub assembly  in from  rear of the  assembly?

Wish more  kits  would  adapt  this  idea.

OC.

42 minutes ago, king derelict said:

I hope that works out for you OC. It does seem a lottery buying from China via eBay. I'm in the same situation. I've generally been impressed with DSPIAE modelling tools and ordered their magnetic paint stirrer. It sounded like an interesting idea. You drop a small steel rod in the paint bottle and a motor on teh base spins the rod round extremely fast. Mine arrived and I gave it a try. It wouldn't even rotate the rod in the paint. Thinking the paint might be too thick I tried it with water and got a similar result. So far communication has been great and they apparently have a replacement on the way. We shall see. I should have listened to @Egilman about paint stirrers.😄

Alan

Indeed mate  some  times  its a  hit or miss  affair  ordering  from over there.

OC.

39 minutes ago, Egilman said:

 

China directly? forgetabout it, eBay? I've had both good and bad results with items from China.. My experience says it depends on how much business they get from eBay, if a lot, than you may see a good result, If Not, they may abandon their eBay account... For items like this, Amazon is the better option even if it's coming from China for eBay I don't buy from China except with Paypal, cause paypal will yank the finds right back out of their account if it isn't satisfactory...

 

They probably won't want the material back cause it IS so inexpensive... But ya the very very poor shipping was a serious issue here... You should be getting your money back... (but as with everything China, don't hold your breath waiting)

 

And brother, just in case they want it back, I wouldn't do anything with it till you know for sure... It's one of those items that isn't worth shipping back I know, but then there is the oddball Chinese for ya and eBay may require it....

 

But it is a product that can be glued together into whatever shape you need...

 

Frustrating yes, I think we've all gone thru it at least once, it's one of the things Chinese shippers are famous for....

Thank you  kindly brother,    I will  see  what they  say  when they  are  open again  (China Time)   They  initially  responded  straight away  when I messaged them  -  full  of apologies   saying they would  send a  replacement  but knowing  that would also arrive damaged  - I told them in no uncertain  terms  that  I did not want a  replacement   but I wanted a  Full Refund  as  I completely  blamed them for  not  packaging it  in bubble wrap  or similar,  they went quiet on me after  that.

OC. 

16 minutes ago, CDW said:

Wish you the best on making this right. My own track record with merchandise returns to China is not good at all. Maybe Ebay will intercede somehow. It looks like it was cut with something. Was the packaging damaged as well?

Craig  Packaging  -  what packaging,  it was   just  put inside  a  thin  plastic bag  with  no protection at all   -  it had  no chance at all  in not  getting damaged  travelling  half way across the  world.

I am  pushing them  to  refund  my money  while  I see  what I can rescue  with this  one  as  there is  lots  of trimming and thinning work  to do  to get the  profile I need.

OC.

4 minutes ago, king derelict said:

 

 

Waiting to see  what  they  will  do about it.

OC.

13 minutes ago, Canute said:

That's terrible. Not protected at all. I assume you will return it.

I have  contacted them  through  Ebay   waiting on a  reply.

OC.

Afternoon all,   my  styrene  base has   turned up  from China  - I will  let the  photos  speak for them selves  -  to say I am  not amused   is  putting it  mildly   - 

OC.

43 minutes ago, Egilman said:

Only cause you haven't tried yet brother...

 

Doing them as small as you have been doing should make the larger ones easier I imagine... Anyway I would have a lot of confidence in your ability to paint any figure at this point...

Thank you  kindly brother.

OC.

Looking good  Alan,   I do washes  over my  28mm   figures  but how well  I would  get  on  doing that  at this  scale  - I dont know,  you  could  try  a  very  slightly darker  shade  of Yellow  and  paint  the  shadows,  then  a  slightly  lighter shade of Yellow  and  dry brush  the  highlights  and  raised  areas,   I haven't actually  successfully  painted  any larger  scale  figures.

OC.