Old Collingwood

2 hours ago, mtaylor said:

Your work on this is marvelous, OC.  I hope the mojo comes back and you keep going.   As for mojo, I find it tends to wander off on it's own like it needs a vacation or just a rest.   

Thank you  so much Mark mate,   indeed  it was a bit  like  loosing  the  interest  a bit  -  I am sure  I heard the  figures  stamping their feet  and  sighing.

OC.

I have lightened  the  pics  a bit  - 

OC.

12 minutes ago, FriedClams said:

Excellent work OC. and very nice close-up photography as well. 

 

Gary

Thank you kindly  Gary.

OC.

I'm back,     I   put a  handful of  figures  mainly  the  2nd KGL  and  Lunebourg  and  some injured  on some  bottles  to hold  them,  then i mixed up a  small amount  of my Mig  Lucky acrylic flat coat, and  did a  very  thin  brush coat, then  dried  then off  slightly  with the hairdryer, they  will  need a  second coat  tomorrow.

OC.

1 hour ago, Canute said:

Hop back into the "game", OC. Your brush painting skills are some of the best I've seen.

Thank you  so much  Ken.

OC.

2 hours ago, king derelict said:

It will be great to see you back on this spectacular project. So many great figures already done. Your brush painting skills make the air brush redundant for this one. Enjoy and have fun.

Alan

Thank you  so mucH  Alan.

OC.

That  chassis  looks  so sweet  Craig,   looks  like  the  foundation  of an excellent  kit   -  and   I know  you  will  knock it out of the  park.

OC. 

30 minutes ago, CDW said:

You are one of the best model brush painters I have seen, so I believe you will get by just fine without an airbrush. 

I have watched some videos of a modeler who works exclusively with brush painting and his work is phenomenal. Yours is and will be, too.

That  is  suck a  kind  thing to  say  Craig  -  very  very  encouraging   words   thank  you  buddy.

OC.

Hi all,     I decided  I am  going to  give  myself  a  good  kick  and  have a go at  this build,  I have  quite  a  few  figures  that  are  painted and weathered  and  need  flat top  coating,    I have  done away  with  my  airbrush  system  for  many reasons,   but I can still  brush  paint the  flat top coat as  I still  have  some  of it left  in the  bottle,  they will then  be put away  to  fully  harden  before I remove the  bases.

I have been  missing  working on  this  but  I will  be honest  I kind  of lost  my mojo  a  bit  and  after  packing everything away  I could  not be  bothered  to  get  it all  out  again,  but  I will  just get  out  what  I need   to   do these  figures.

OC.

More excellent work   - loving it.

OC.

Those  are  quite a  striking difference  I have only  used a  few of the  1/48  scale  figures  before  - I thnk  by the  ICM  range  but they where  WW2  aircrew.

I  tend  to  work  with  28mm   figures   from the   Victrix  and   Perry  ranges   and  a  few  resin   types  that  can  be  a  bit  over scale  compared  to  the  plastic  ones,     not much  help  I an affraid  -  but hopefully   there will  be more  replies.

OC.

Its  now   gone.

OC.

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.