Old Collingwood

Just adding a   few more  photo edits  including  Marshal Ney   who  will  not be  displayed  as  he was further  up the  field of action  untill  he rode  with the massed  cavalry  attack  on the  squares.

OC.

Great work as  always   my friend  -  its  looking so impressive now, I know  builds  like  these  can sometimes  make us  pull  our hair  out  -  but  when things  start to work out  and  we  our  way through the  building mist  -  it so becomes  worth it.

OC.

3 hours ago, gsdpic said:

Thanks for the comment CDW and thanks to all the others for the likes and the wows.   Not sure my work lives up to a "wow" but I'll take it.

 

So I said the exhaust was next but I skipped ahead a little bit and worked on painting the wheels.   The wheels presented a couple of conundrums.

 

But first, back when I built the Ferrari shown above, I wondered about the goldish tone of wheels on race cars from around 1970 and google told me all about "DOW 7".  For those unfamiliar, the wheels were made of magnesium to reduce weight, but it is fairly reactive to the environment, so the magnesium was coated with some chemical mix to prevent corrosion.  "DOW 7" is the current name for one such mix; not sure if that is what it was called back in 1970.  It is a sort of non-metallic goldish tan color, sometimes with a little tinge of green, though looking at net pictures of magnesium wheels shows a wide variety of color.

 

As for the conundrums (conundra?), the various pictures and youtube videos of this car (not to mention models of this car) show a variety of wheels and a variety of schemes for coloration of the wheels, usually with a silver rim along with some parts in a goldish color, and some times black as well.   So the first issue was just how to paint the wheels.   For the front, as shown, I've gone with a black inner section, gold wheel, with some silver trim around the edge.  The rears are a different style and very deep so I did not do the black inner section on them.

 

The second conundrum is regarding the gold color.  Was the gold wheel on the 72D a magnesium wheel coated with DOW 7?  Or was the wheel painted gold to match the livery of the car, with the gold stripes?   As much as I might have wanted the latter, I assumed the former.

 

So I started out painting the wheels with the dreaded alclad gloss black, thinking I might be painting some polished aluminum over it, though that did not occur.  I then did a light mist coat of flat "German Grey" Tamiya paint just to knock down the gloss and blackness of the inner part a bit.  Then I masked the inner wheel section and painted the wheel with Alclad's "pale gold".    That was the first time I used it, and I have to say it went on beautifully.  At that point I was tempted to pretend the wheels were painted gold to match the livery and let it go.  But no, I continued with my original plan to attempt to make the wheels more "DOW 7"ish, and put on a mist coat of Tamiya Flat Earth with a couple of drops of green in it.  Finally, I went around the rim of the wheel using the molotow chrome paint marker.  Below is what it looks like now.  I'll likely go over the rim with another pass or two of the molotow paint marker and then maybe shoot the whole thing with a semi-gloss clear coat.  But, even as is, I am quite pleased with how this came out.

 

If you made it this far, thanks for reading this overly long explanation for painting a wheel

 

Typical   Lotus  wheel  colours.

OC.

Excellent work  Kevin   -  really nice  and  tidy.

OC.

Added   my   location  as  it was  missing.

OC.

Impressive work mat  -  she  looks  so tidy  ship shape  etc.

OC.

Hi all,    Is anyone  looking to  buy a  cheap  Airbrush  kit   as I  have one  that I am reluctantly  letting  it go, due  to  the  cost of living  problems  at the moment.

UK  based.

Please let me  know  if you are  interested.

OC.

They are  Superb kits  -  this  will  be  lovely.

OC.

9 hours ago, DARIVS ARCHITECTVS said:

As someone who as a young boy was totally fascinated by dinosaurs and prehistoric sea creatures, this is SO COOL!!!!  😃👍

Thank you so much.

OC.

Hi all,     so  this  is  on hold  and  sitting in my  display case,  I have not  touched it   for ages  but decided  to do a  few improved  re edits  of  some of the  pics  posted  - cant help  it  just love messing around  with my pic  files  in my Lightroom  and  Topaz Denoise AI.

OC.

Hi all,   here  are a  couple  of  improved  pics  to  show  how  it looks.

OC.

Nearly brought a  Lotus  many many years  ago  -  but was  put off by the  service  costs and  insurance,  loved the  name they   got  Lots  Of  Trouble  Usually  Serious.

OC.

Absolutely Gorgeous,    spot on work.

OC.

She looks  Stunning in that  daylight   -  beautiful job.

OC.

Excellent finish.

OC.

Excellent  clean work.

OC.

This  looks  Real.

OC.

Excellent work   going on there  Alan,    its  so looking  the  part  now,   I think you will  find  that  new tool  really  useful  on oyur stone  works.

Keep  up the  Great work mate.

OC.

30 minutes ago, king derelict said:

Most of the floors or courtyards seem to be a gravel surface and Aedes Ars gives you a tiny bag of white ground material which is nowhere near enough to do anything useful with. I could mix it with some ground block material but it would have to be mostly block dust to cover the ground so I think its off to see what Woodland Scenic and others have to offer. Thanks for the help

Alan

Good  to  know  and  glad  to be  of help  mate.

OC.

9 hours ago, Kevin said:

lovely to see an update

They are  just  some  re edited  old  pics  Kevin,  she  no longer   lives   I past  it on  some years  ago sadly.

OC.

Good  morning  -  evening  -  day  all,   I thought   I  would  post  some  more  updated   edited  pics   form this  old   build,  as  you  know  it was  halted   part  way  through the  build  -  but  I still  kept  the  pics  -  so  I though  "Heck  why not  edit  some  of the  better  ones"

OC.

2 hours ago, Landlubber Mike said:

Nice build there OC!  

Thank you  Mike.

OC.

38 minutes ago, GrandpaPhil said:

Nicely done, OC!

Thank you kindly Phil.

OC.

5 minutes ago, king derelict said:

Very nice work on the details. The photography is excellent too

Alan

Thank you  kindly  Alan.

OC.

As   you know  I built  this  and  put  it in a  dio   with  other  items  to  simulate an airfield scene,    but I decided  to  do  a  quick  review  through  some  re edited  pics  to  show  the  kits  build  and just the main figures  directly involved  with her.

OC.