Old Collingwood
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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. -
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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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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Graet work, and that deck amazing detail... OC
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Just another quick update, if they get any smaller i will need to post them on postage stamps I have marked the boot line by the old method of - working out the scale width - i have gone with RN British ships of the time, they where 6 feet wide, i then converted this to 1/350 scale and marked a dot on the hull, then i made a jiggy jig type device that i would mount a pencil on, a suitable block of wood came to hand and my pencil was led kicking and shaouting, and then taped down onto the block I then ran the pencil along the hull while the hull was sat on a flat table, this gave me a good water line boot line, that will be taped ready for some black paint that will be sparayed on(now i am becoming the spray champ of the world - after one go) Well thats a few more words than i have put of late, oh yeah just remebered - dont worry i freed the pencil from the block, gave it a stiff J D and set it to sleep OC
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Thanks mate, it certainly has sprayed on as a gloss red, but no worries as it will be easy enough to apply a matt sealer when i am finished with the hull. OC.
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Here are a few pics of the painted bottom hull, please excuse the color the flash has bleached the red somewhat and given it an orange look, the finnish is smooth and i am very pleased with it, i will have to flat it down abit as the finnish at the moment is gloss. OC.
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Hi folks, a quick update, i purchased a rattle can of a hull red color today and after a bit of prep work by some wire wool, and brushing it down, i set about spraying the bottom hull, i found this quite easy although i was holding my breath a bit through nerves incase i made a mess off it, but it has turned out ok and much better than i could have hand painted it. OC.
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P E with me is a learning curve requiring a patient attitude and a lot small steps with breaks in between, i have also realized that this can not be done without working underneath a magnifiyer or opto visors, and i am learning as i go along and cleaning up my work again under magnification, as i finnish each stage. OC
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Hi folks - just a quick note to say that i have not deserted my cause, just another passion of mine called me away from the build bench for a few days, i will have my mojo back and continue where i left off - with the pe work on the mid deck section around the 4inch guns, i left this stage with the armour plate pe placed in situ, awaiting a coat of paint prior to me fitting the paper metal deck area around/underneath the 4inch gun mountings. OC
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I think i will need to give in and pursavere (heck i know that word aint spelt right) i mean just give it a try, as i have some metal on metal to do yet.... OC.
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I finished off the one side today with the fourth blast screen bulwark, these little .....fellas have been very tempromental and have been ungluing them selves, with the slightest movement, i cleaned and scrapped where they were due to sit, and even had to lay a wash of PVA White Glue around them. i just hope that the paper sheets will help to hold them in place. Its weird because i read that PVA is good for securing etch brass in place? OC
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Well the pe armour plating is making slowwww, but positive progress, the PVA glue seems to be doing its job of securing then vanishing, this should make it easier when i place the simulated metal deck sheet down, because of the delicate nature of each fixed piece of pe, i can only work on one piece at a time than put it up wellaway from miss moggy cat, who does like to have a walk on the table to see whats going on and where her food is OC
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Completely crazy and beautiful work it kind of brings to life victory in a way that you could only imagine, if you spent a night there down on the gun decks with all those lost spirits..... OC
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Thank you kindly sir, hey if you run out of pop corn i have some multi cherios i could let you have. OC
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I have carried on with the armour for the 4inch gun bulwarks and managed to complete just one more plate, its kind of very taxing and hard work focusing under a magnifier, i find my eys go and i end up cross eyed, the wife keeps saying to me "who are you looking at when i am talking to you"... My plan as mad as it might seem is to finish off the four plates on the one side, then i will glue the paper strips down, to kind of trap the lips of the etching plates and fingers/toes and everything else you can cross, this will keep them in place as so far i have done without CA superglue, as i hate this stuff with a passion, i could tell you a story of a friend who glued his eyes shut - by accident with CA glue.... OC
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