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Nice recovery ! Yes Life Color paints work well even brushed on by hand. I did my 1:350 Navy ships using Life Color paints

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30 minutes ago, king derelict said:

Well after the usual expenditure of money and effort I seem to have beaten the real world back into its rightful place in the background of life. Doubtless it will be back at some point.

 

I completed the masking and air brushing of the three colour camouflage and with great nervousness removed the tape. A few spots to touch up and I am happy with it. The mid grey / green doesn't quite have the contrast I wanted but I think I will live with it.

 

The Life Color paints worked well and diluted with Tamiya acrylic thinner very nicely although I had to lift the airbrush pressure a tad relative to what I use for Tamiya acrylics. I don't think my masking was very different from the first attempt so I think the disaster resulted from using water to thin the AK paints. i think the longer drying time allowed the thinned paint to penetrate under the masks before drying. It was also colder in the garage then which also extended the drying time Thank you @Old Collingwood for the helpful tip regarding Life Color acrylics

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So forward at last and I can start adding the mix of details from the kit and the WE PE.

 

Thanks for looking in and likes and comments

 

Alan

Glad the  Lifecolour  worked well  - I liked them  when I used  them,  that  really  looks  nice Alan.

 

OC.

Current builds  


28mm  Battle of Waterloo   attack on La Haye Saint   Diorama.

1/700  HMS Hood   Flyhawk   with  PE, Resin  and Wood Decking.

 

 

 

Completed works.

 

Dragon 1/700 HMS Edinburgh type 42 batch 3 Destroyer plastic.

HMS Warspite Academy 1/350 plastic kit and wem parts.

HMS Trafalgar Airfix 1/350 submarine  plastic.

Black Pearl  1/72  Revell   with  pirate crew.

Revell  1/48  Mosquito  B IV

Eduard  1/48  Spitfire IX

ICM    1/48   Seafire Mk.III   Special Conversion

1/48  Kinetic  Sea Harrier  FRS1

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9 hours ago, king derelict said:

Hi Andrew. I hope all is well with you. I always enjoy your build logs. I'm gathering enthusiasm to finish this build

 

Alan

Thanks Alan,

 

Looking forward to seeing this come together, the sea looks very good. I’m back on MSW after an absence, won’t hijack your log here, the reasons are on my Trial log. 

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22 hours ago, Jack12477 said:

Nice recovery ! Yes Life Color paints work well even brushed on by hand. I did my 1:350 Navy ships using Life Color paints

Thank you Jack. I touched up the small bleeds past the masks with a brush and the paint went on very nicely. Onto the fun stuff now.

Alan

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22 hours ago, Old Collingwood said:

Glad the  Lifecolour  worked well  - I liked them  when I used  them,  that  really  looks  nice Alan.

 

OC.

Thanks OC. The Life Color paints are a useful addition. The IBG Hunt destroyers and the Mirage Flower corvettes all use variations of the three colour camouflage using the colours in the two Life Color RN WW2 sets.Thanks again

Alan

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14 hours ago, AJohnson said:

Thanks Alan,

 

Looking forward to seeing this come together, the sea looks very good. I’m back on MSW after an absence, won’t hijack your log here, the reasons are on my Trial log. 

Thank you Andrew. I dived over to the Trial log and I now want to go back and read it from the beginning. Thats a beautiful model you have created; it tempts me to try a wooden ship but I worry about my innate inability to cut or sand at right angles . I was sorry to read about your health problems but I'm glad you got great medical care and wish you all the best for a full recovery. hopefully the Great British Summer has arrived and provides you with plenty of opportunities to enjoy it.

I'll be finishing off the miniature figure in the next few days and picking up the Flowers. I think Spiraea will go on the sea base. Zinnia will be displayed on a base.

Alan

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Just caught up with your log Alan - great job!  Nice models and the diorama is going to be sweet!

 

For a 1/350 ship diorama, you can take a look at my Shimakaze build for how I did the seas.  They aren’t rough like yours, so my approach may not be of much help.

 

I love these Flower Class corvettes!

Mike

 

Current Wooden builds:  Amati/Victory Pegasus  MS Charles W. Morgan  Euromodel La Renommèe  

 

Plastic builds:    SB2U-1 Vindicator 1/48  Five Star Yaeyama 1/700  Pit Road Asashio and Akashi 1/700 diorama  Walrus 1/48 and Albatross 1/700  Special Hobby Buffalo 1/32  Eduard Sikorsky JRS-1 1/72  IJN Notoro 1/700  Akitsu Maru 1/700

 

Completed builds :  Caldercraft Brig Badger   Amati Hannah - Ship in Bottle  Pit Road Hatsuzakura 1/700   Hasegawa Shimakaze 1:350

F4B-4 and P-6E 1/72  Accurate Miniatures F3F-1/F3F-2 1/48  Tamiya F4F-4 Wildcat built as FM-1 1/48  Special Hobby Buffalo 1/48

Citroen 2CV 1/24 - Airfix and Tamiya  Entex Morgan 3-wheeler 1/16

 

Terminated build:  HMS Lyme (based on Corel Unicorn)  

 

On the shelf:  Euromodel Friedrich Wilhelm zu Pferde; Caldercraft Victory; too many plastic ship, plane and car kits

 

Future potential scratch builds:  HMS Lyme (from NMM plans); Le Gros Ventre (from Ancre monographs), Dutch ship from Ab Hoving book, HMS Sussex from McCardle book, Philadelphia gunboat (Smithsonian plans)

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On 6/29/2024 at 10:55 AM, Landlubber Mike said:

Just caught up with your log Alan - great job!  Nice models and the diorama is going to be sweet!

 

For a 1/350 ship diorama, you can take a look at my Shimakaze build for how I did the seas.  They aren’t rough like yours, so my approach may not be of much help.

 

I love these Flower Class corvettes!

Thank you Mike. I revisited your Shimakaze build log. I enjoyed reading it at the time and the model and seascape are beautiful. I think the way the blues of the sea work to give an impression of depth is fantastic. I am rereading and making notes of the techniques 

alan

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Work resumes on HMS Zinnia. I've started building up the detail with a mixture of kit parts and the White Ensign PE set although the PE is more appropriate to the later bridge configurations. I am going to use the kit parts for the aft gun tub and the forward bandstand. The PE really didn't improve the look although I will add the railings to the bandstand.

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Painting and some washes to weather a bit next. Zinnia did not last very long so I don't think heavy weathering is appropriate.

Now I have to decide whether to rig the ship; something that I find difficult. I think some of it would be better done before the railing go on; the funnel stays for example. I just got the model kasten thread and I have the Uschi version too. I may have to try the funnel stays and see how it goes

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Thanks for looking in and the likes

 

Alan

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On my 1/700 and 1/350 ships, I did the rigging after I was done with the construction, painting, and weathering - i.e., was the last step.  Part of my thinking was that I spray a matt clear over the model once the painting and weathering is completed to unify the finish.  I wasn't quite sure how the rigging material would react to the clear.  

 

Zinnia looks great!

Edited by Landlubber Mike

Mike

 

Current Wooden builds:  Amati/Victory Pegasus  MS Charles W. Morgan  Euromodel La Renommèe  

 

Plastic builds:    SB2U-1 Vindicator 1/48  Five Star Yaeyama 1/700  Pit Road Asashio and Akashi 1/700 diorama  Walrus 1/48 and Albatross 1/700  Special Hobby Buffalo 1/32  Eduard Sikorsky JRS-1 1/72  IJN Notoro 1/700  Akitsu Maru 1/700

 

Completed builds :  Caldercraft Brig Badger   Amati Hannah - Ship in Bottle  Pit Road Hatsuzakura 1/700   Hasegawa Shimakaze 1:350

F4B-4 and P-6E 1/72  Accurate Miniatures F3F-1/F3F-2 1/48  Tamiya F4F-4 Wildcat built as FM-1 1/48  Special Hobby Buffalo 1/48

Citroen 2CV 1/24 - Airfix and Tamiya  Entex Morgan 3-wheeler 1/16

 

Terminated build:  HMS Lyme (based on Corel Unicorn)  

 

On the shelf:  Euromodel Friedrich Wilhelm zu Pferde; Caldercraft Victory; too many plastic ship, plane and car kits

 

Future potential scratch builds:  HMS Lyme (from NMM plans); Le Gros Ventre (from Ancre monographs), Dutch ship from Ab Hoving book, HMS Sussex from McCardle book, Philadelphia gunboat (Smithsonian plans)

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On 7/9/2024 at 7:01 PM, Landlubber Mike said:

On my 1/700 and 1/350 ships, I did the rigging after I was done with the construction, painting, and weathering - i.e., was the last step.  Part of my thinking was that I spray a matt clear over the model once the painting and weathering is completed to unify the finish.  I wasn't quite sure how the rigging material would react to the clear.  

 

Zinnia looks great!

Thank you Mike; that's a good point about the matte spray. That would be my last task in the build

Alan

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Moving slowly forward. Partly because this was started so long ago I have rather lost the thread of what I was doing. I have lost my place a bit with the PE appropriate to Zinnia and I did miss the searchlight railings could have been installed from PE rather than the kit parts. Otherwise I think I am not too far off. 

I had a minor setback. The pill container is a nice comfortable base to work on the ship but it is a bit top heavy and inevitably I knocked it over. The only casualty was the mast which has been rebuilt using appropriate brass rod. My tip to prevent this (belatedly applied) is to fill the pill container about halfway with water.

Photos of Zinnia are scarce but there is a line drawing of her towards the end of the Flower Corvette book which shows that Mirage got the details correct generally

I have taken a bit of a pragmatic approach to the PE. A lot of the kit parts like the davits are very finely moulded and I think are better than toe 2D PE so I have taken the version I like best. Just because it has a PE equivalent doesn't mean I am going to use it. The railings of course. I think the PE railings step up the model all on their own.

I used the kit 2 pdr aft gun; its really a nice representation. I used the resin 4 inch forward gun and the PE Lewis guns for the bridge wings.

So far most of the details are added. Forecastle railings, anchor chains are the last parts.

This means I am looking the rigging question in the face. The mast is a bit delicate. I should probably have remade the whole thing in brass. I may have to rethink it. Luckily Gators Grip glue is relaively easy tp remove and rework

Some rust washes will be added but nothing too extreme. Zinnia never made any of the long Atlantic convoyes

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Thanks for looking in and for the likes and comments

Alan

 

 

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Delightful results!  Looking great!

Brad/NavyShooter

 

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A somewhat tense day working on the last few difficult details. I painted the Lewis guns and added them to the bridge wings. I am not sure if I lost an ammunition drum in the process but they are too small to confirm even with magnifiers. The anchor chains have been added and the remaining rails apart from the forecastle. After a bit of prevarication I had a try at the rigging. I went with the basics, mast stays and a few other lines. No bridge halyards at this point. I used the Modelkasten line which doesn't seem to have the stretch of the Uschi line I tried in the past. Its not super tidy but I am pleased with it generally; it adds a bit more to the model.\

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The only problem is the repaired upper section of the mast isn't strong enough and has raked forward with the pull of the rigging.

I relaxed a bit and added some simple rust washes and I think that is sufficient.

I then built a new mast from brass rod and added the PE crows nest.

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Hopefully tomorrow I will feel brave enough to remove the first rigging attempt and bin the current mast and try again

 

Thank you all for looking in, for the likes and the supportive comments

Alan

 

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Well, I got brave and ripped out the mast and rigging. One great thing using Gators Grip glue; its relatively easy to dismantle stuff and there is less chance of small pieces pinging off into the unknown.

I added the brass mast and while that was setting up I added the same basic rigging to Spiraea and found that the practice had made it a lot less intimidating. Apart from one diversion when I couldn't seem to get the rigging line to cooperate and finally realised I was trying to manipulate a cats whisker (I have no idea how that got up onto the work bench) and not a piece of rigging line it all went fairly well. The same rigging was added to the new mast on Zinnia, her forecastle railings were added and then the decals. The ships numbers need to be toned down a bit and the final matte coat. I am trying to sort out one final detail. The life preservers are full of flash and all attempts to clean them up with heated pins, sharp blades, files have failed dismally so they look horrible. I am trying to think of a suitable alternative

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I now have both ships almost complete

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Spiraea showing a lot more wear and tear in the foreground.

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I added Spiraea to the sea base and I think I am happy with it so far

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I need to add the last touch to the sea; the bursting wave on either side of the ship. 

 

Thank you all for looking in and all the likes and comments

 

Alan

 

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I tidied up the last details on Zinnia, added the ensign and made some replacement life bouys from lead wire. They are not perfect but with a bit of a dirty wash they have come up quite well and are better than the kit parts with all their flash or omitting them altogether. She will now move to the display shelf after I have made a cradle

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I have been playing about shaping bits of plush toy stuffing stiffened with white glue and added the chosen pieces on either side of the hull as the bursting wave to complete the seascape. No teddy bears were hurt in this process.

I am sure there is room for improvement but I quite like the end result so I will call this complete for a first attempt at wild water.

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This photo from the Imperial War Museum archives is the spur that started this project

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So I had to try the black and white filter again

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Trying to freeze spray, smoke and mist is a huge challenge but this does have somewhat of a feel for the moment

 

As always making a seascape was a lot of fun

thankyou everyone for looking and for the likes and the supportive comments through this build

Alan

 

 

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5 minutes ago, Jack12477 said:

Wow ! Came out very realistic Alan. 

Thank you very much Jack. I got some good suggestions from you all as usual which helped immensely.

 

I will remind me of the misery of escort on Atlantic convoys in those ships. And so many young lads who had never been to sea before.

 

Alan

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