1204m Shmel Riverine gunboat by RGL - Tiger Model - 1/35 - PLASTIC

[clearway]

great job as always Greg

[RGL]

Ok back in the Shmel. The deck, three coats of red/Orange/dark grey then I’ll give it a good clear coat, chipping coat then lots of green coats and chip it back 

Edited November 25 by RGL

[RGL]

Now this is NOT my model but my concept of clear resin for this build 

[BANYAN]

Love the acrylic base Greg, I will be very interested in following your efforts with this.

 

cheers

 

Pat

[RGL]

So green base graduation of 4 shades of green

then chipping

then let the masking begin. 

Edited November 27 by RGL

[RGL]

As things going to be ‘floating’ in resin, I want to make the hull filthy and lots of alge, some Mr surfacer and cotton wool. At 1/35 it actually seems to work!!!! 

[RGL]

So that’ll do for the lower hull as it will be under water (clear resin) 

[RGL]

So the masking in the deck lifted even more paint (I like it), the base coat done on the upper hull, a dryfit for the sake of art. If you can’t view it I’m Bacon Bits Models on Facebook 

[RGL]

Starting the upper hull weathering 

[RGL]

Deck rusted up with pigments, dryfit of the superstructures; lots of equipment to go on deck yet as it will diffuse the starkness of it 

[Old Collingwood]

That looks so lifelike Greg.

 

OC.

[RGL]

So precut Perspex pieces which I will glue into a long bucket. Then lots of poured resin 

[RGL]

This is  the resin bucket! 

Edited December 12 by RGL

[yvesvidal]

Make sure that the "bucket" is absolutely waterproof. Resin manages to find the smallest hole or crack by capillarity. It is worse than water.

 

Yves

[king derelict]

7 hours ago, yvesvidal said:

Make sure that the "bucket" is absolutely waterproof. Resin manages to find the smallest hole or crack by capillarity. It is worse than water.

 

Yves

It does do that. One of my early efforts resulted in half the poured resin leaking out onto the top of the clothes dryer. 

[Jim Lad]

Greg, I've been silently admiring your work for some time and thought I should apologise for not posting to comment on your beautiful models. I'll try and do better in future.

 

John

[RGL]

Luckily my youngest is an apprentice plumber so knows how to seal stuff up! 

[RGL]

And it starts, Dead Sea base 

[RGL]

Next, the radioactive drums m, now to wait 3 days for it to set 

[RGL]

And here is the corner piece which is important to the story 

[RGL]

Sludge on top

[Old Collingwood]

Excellent Greg.

 

OC.

[Jim Lad]

Looks just like the banks of some rivers I know, Greg (minus the radioactive warning signs on the drums)!

 

John

[Javelin]

Looks great indeed. What did you make the sludge from? Acrylic? or sand mixed with epoxy? 

The effect is in any case convincing! 👍

[RGL]

So to answer your question, this stuff! I don’t prime the resin which causes it to split but that was perfect for what comes next 

[RGL]

So next is the radioactive bit. I used AK radioactive water but in the black surface it does not show at all.
So a few drops of a vivid green acrylic in the mix works well.

Remember there will be a coat on top on this and it will all be under water 

[Nirvana]

Greg, I am at loss of words of how good this looks.
Are you to add some radio-active oozing on top of the water?
Have a nice holiday.

[RGL]

So the 4 litre pour, looks ok so far, it will take a week to set 

[Jim Lad]

Greg, do you get much heat from that much curing resin?

 

John

[RGL]

So overnight we developed a massive list to port side! It’s stuck solid. So, no change in plan, it will just be a more dramatic rescue scene. I could t figure out why until I looked inside the hull and the seam has leaked letting in resin which as set hard as ballast.

 

annoying but it will work