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Old Collingwood

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  1. Old Collingwood
    Greg can I recommend these to you - I use them they are color matched to be as close to admiralty colors. OC.
  2. Old Collingwood
    "What - you measure your popcorn with a ruler"....... OC.
  3. Old Collingwood
    Looking smart. OC.
  4. Old Collingwood
    I decided to mask the hull into sections to aid hand painting, I did this in equal sections so as to look natural when the tape is removed, just the one pic. OC.
  5. Old Collingwood
    Facinating build greg - not so disimilar to my Warspite, I will be watching along pinching lou popcorn. OC.
  6. Old Collingwood
    Tiger would be Brilliant Helicopter moded version? OC.
  7. Old Collingwood
    I have seen that mentioned before, the only experience I have with molten sprue is with aircraft kits to make arials and comms wires, where you would heat up one of the lengths of sprue then pull it till it became a very fine string. OC.
  8. Old Collingwood
    Was that Keel or Eel...... OC.
  9. Old Collingwood
    Thanks Jack, I think I have seen it on flee bay. OC.
  10. Old Collingwood
    "Type of brush" yep the hairy kind with a handle, seriously its a fairly decent size brush that I use for hand painting my Warspite build, paint wise in using the excellent Lifecolor set of acrylic satins, they are really good. Its one of those painting jobs - the more thinned out coats its get - the better the finish. OC.
  11. Old Collingwood
    Do you know what I would do lou to hush the rushers up - take some pics of demon cat and post them, atleast they will be pics. OC.
  12. Old Collingwood
    If I pull this one off I think I will have earned the NRG achiever medal of stupid painting endurance. OC.
  13. Old Collingwood
    Yeah it just took a bit of sanding with fine wet and dry, its had a few more coats back over the whole hull, but to be honest its like trying to paint a glass from top to bottom with a small brush. OC.
  14. Old Collingwood
    Something like this kevin, https://www.cornwalllive.com/news/cornwall-news/dave-forteys-scale-model-hms-916409 OC.
  15. Old Collingwood
    How about HMS Ark Royal R09 in 1/72 scale if one is out there. OC.
  16. Old Collingwood
    Sort of an update - I have been having trouble with the join line not joining flush despite sanding to two halves, and even with many coats of paint it looked Horrid, so I tried to apply some styrene cement, thi wasn't doing a very good job (dont the smallest and least complicated builds tend to give us grief) So plan number two was to use some C/A and smear it inside and over the bow nose area. This was done to some extent and when dry I was able to give the bow (super glued area) and the rest of the hull a thorough sanding with very fine wet n dry and water. The result was the affect you get when you sand a car down ready to re spray. Then it was back on using my little hairy friend and muliple thin coats of dark grey. No pictures as I didn't have the heart and thought it looked a mess, still having to use my phone camera also. Not the best day TBH. OC.
  17. Old Collingwood
    Excellent work kevin its so graphic and nice that scale. OC.
  18. Old Collingwood
    Admiral said she neds to be convinced its a submarine ........ Blushing Old Collingwood moment OC.
  19. Old Collingwood
    Wife just took note of my sub build and asked "where does the batteries go" OC.
  20. Old Collingwood
    Welcome to the family. OC.
  21. Old Collingwood
    Hi Jeff long time no see hope you are well. OC.
  22. Old Collingwood
    Wowser your motoring along with her now - lovely work my friend. OC.
  23. Old Collingwood
    Thanks mate, yep its not always easy to make a round smooth object detailed and interesting, but I will give it a go. OC.
  24. Old Collingwood
    Hiya mate, I will continue to buile up the base color first and attack the bow area where there is a gap, then I will look at simulating some tiles with tape masks. "note to self - look on flee bay for that flast coay rattle can carl mentioned" OC.
  25. Old Collingwood
    Right I decided to attack the sub (no pun intended) by closing up the hull, this was quite a tidy job but needs a bit of filling near the bow, any way I also put the two halves of the sail together, then glued this to the hull, when set I lightly sanded the hull to create a key, but also masked off the top section, then I started to apply the first few brush coats of dark navy grey. It will need quite a few coats (all thin coats) to build up a smooth finish. Here are a few pics. OC.

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