Old Collingwood
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I was again at the table yesterday doing a bit more work on the mid ship section, concentrating on the other armour plate sections where the 4inch mounts go, I also fitted another Spurnwater that was with my brass update set - this was tricky as it had to sit in a very narrow section and required just a thin layer of super glue applied with a fine ended brush handle. The plan is to sand the inside edges of the plate down and the deck area ready for a light grey paint, then I will lay down the semtex coloured sheets that I have made out of paper and painted, these were in the general area around the 4inch guns, but with the planking running behind and in front of this section, it will then be ready for the wood decking sheet I have - I would have liked to have worked fitting this on each separate piece of the plastic kits deck, but the join with the wooden sheet would look a bit false in a strait line, and I can not leave anything overhanging as the wood decking sheets are way too delicate, otherwise I would have staggered them like I have real deck planking. OC. -
That sounds like a plan frank, the idea with placing the cloth on top of the plastic ones should work well as they should provide a good mask type thing, are you going to age the sail cloth with tea or vinegar etc? OC
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I sure would follow that and offer any help I could from my previous De Ag Victory build and from the times I visited Victory at Portsmouth. OC
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This is the friendliest, most helpful site I have ever used so you will only ever get help on here not abuse... OC
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More progress with the ole girl - I have been working on the mid ship section refining the bulwark armour plate sections around the 4Inch mounts, this involved thinning the fixed plastic plate down as there scale thickness was around a foot :obut after getting some brass etch detail bits and pieces that included the correct scale thickness plate sections, the nest job was to offer them up and attach the sides to the thinned down plastic plate. I have also had the separate smaller plate sections in brass etch, so I cut away the small plastic sections, then fitted the brass after bending the bottom ridges to aid seating correctly, afterwards a stern walk strip was fitted to the completed side again with a small amount of super glue from a stick with a fine point. Here are a few pics -
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Right then folks - she has arrived and on first inspection all I can say is how small she is when compared to my Warspite there are not many parts to her so less work I guess Warspite is my on-going long term extra careful build, but this one should be a month or so Here are a few pics I took of the version I want to build, she will be a later version than HMS Trafalger with the :Djet propulsion system instead of the conventional screw. On the real subs they have roughly one foot square thermal tiles, but how on earth could I replicate them, at a scale size of less than a millimetre..... OC.
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I am awaiting a new project to arrive soon in the shape of an Airfix Trafalger class RN attack submarine, it is in 1 350 scale and will be based on one of those that was based at Plymouth Dockyard UK. I have worked on a quick drawing here it is not colour accurate as the real ones are generally a combination of very dark greys and different black colours. OC
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Just bean doing a bit more lateral thinking about this and what I am tempted to do is - mask off the boot line but hand paint the different colour shades freehand over a pencil guide, that way I should be able to get a soft subtle difference between colours and even dry brush them to make them merge. OC
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Hi folks, I have just brought the Airfix 1 350 scale HMS Trafalger Sub that I will start building along side my Warspite, the question is - should I show my progress with the sub in my Warspite build or start a fresh one for the sub? OC.
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Its like decorators low tack tape - the type you can tear easy, I am sure its not the tape - more a combination of my technique and brush painting, in several thin layers that have just settled against the tape edge causing a slight ridge. OC
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Hi greg, its that general low tack blue tape you can get from most stores, it masks very well and leaves no residue and very little creeping, what I think happened was - as I am hand painting in stages along the upper hull, and building the colour layers up in thin layers the paint has gathered against the tap making a slight ridge. I do not have a sprayer you see yet the Admiralty Paints I have I have to apply thinned down as they suggest and apply by brush, the coverage is good with no brush marks and a nice even application, just these ridges where the paint meets the tape to spoil it a bit. OC
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I Will be getting back to her in the next few days as I have bags of goodies like turned brass gun barrels and all the small AA sets, not to mention a few Pontos bits including the wood deck, one thing that I will have to get my head around - is how I can smooth out the masking line on the hull between the two grey colours as the masking and painting by hand has left a ridge that you can feel with your hand, I want o do this but I am fearful of rubbing away some of the paint if I try to smooth the line between the colures to hard. Any tips folks?? OC
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Hi folks - just popping in to say I am still about just had to put the warspite to bed for a bit as I am getting over a hernia and a broken ankle, when I get some energy and my mojo back I will try to get at the table and have another go..... C.
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Mrs OC said i need a "Shed in the Shape of a Ship" to build my boats :D Try saying that when you are Brahms and List OC
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After letting the first atage of the two color camo set over night, i removed the tape and the edges where not bad just a little bit of an edge to the tape seam but i guess i will be able to smooth this down after both colors are applied, anyway i continued with the masking for the second color by sitting this ontop of the first color, and with the aid of a small soft brush i lay the second coat down. I did this coat without to much fuss and the paint was settling well with the drying aid of a hairdryer from Mrs OC So here is a pic to show where i am at tonight. OC
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Looking really good there sir, i dont know if its just me but the plastic versions do seem to be more in scale particularly the beam, if you look across the width of the top decks the scale just looks right, the wood kits are of course excellent in their own rights. OC.
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More progress folks - i sorted out a few leaks from the masking then i masked out the first stage of hull camo, i have started on the lighter og the grey colors and masked off the hull as needed. Here is a few pics including one of the paints i am using for the corect colors... OC.
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Thank you so much my friend, and congatulations on your anniversary OC
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Next plan of action folks with my little saga will be to do some camo on the hull sides this will be done by hand as i have the acurate colors ready to be applied by my brushes, i will give the black boot line a few days to harden then this will be masked again, before i mask off the different camo lines ready for my first coat, because the area for each coat is smaller - i should be able to get a better level of smooth paint on, than my horrific attempt at hand painting the hull bottom . The difference in my attitude now ia a lot more posetive and i feel a hop in my step with the build agin OC.
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Right then - i took the tape off the boot line :o slowly slowly and apart from a bit of leakage this is the result........ OC
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Hi izzy. Great start my friend, i remember that Airfix Vic kit ...very well i built one when i was a wee lad and after i let it get into a battle with all my Airfix 1/72 scale Waterloo soldiers, i set fire to her :o not foregetting i was a young lad with a weird imagination and a not very pleased mother OC
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Another update folks, not quite a popcorn and coke or J D moment but still a step forward I purchased the black boot line spray, and this afternoon i masked the lower section with firstly a few thin strips, then a few slightly wider till i had covered the whole bottom area, then i took the funny looking thing outside and sprayed the black paint along the gap. It went quite well and i am waiting and waiting till i can take the tape off to have a nose OC.
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