HMS Hood by Paul Jarman - Trumpeter - 1/200 Scale - PLASTIC

[Paul Jarman]

10 hours ago, Nirvana said:

Paul, I like the priming you have done. Looks very good. 
What color are you going to give the prop shafts.
Seems like you did your homework regarding the paint. 
The combination of Tamiya and Vallejo seems like a good combination.
What color code are you using for the underwater painting? 

Thanks,I will paint the shafts the same color as the bottom as recommended on the web site. Which will be dark grey. 

The color scheme is also based on information from the web site,whitch is the best available at this time.

[Paul Jarman]

To say I am a tadge miffed is an understatement. I have the hull almost complete. I was tidying up the boot line and knocked the paint jar over. Very lucky that most of the paint that went on the model is on the bottom of the hull. But because I made a mix of two different greys and added some blue to get the colour right, I don't know what the mix was. And there won't be enough to paint for all the deck structures and fittings. If it was a smaller model I would just start again from scratch and buy some more paint and make up another mix. Just hope I can get the mix right when I can afford to buy some more paint. 

[Paul Jarman]

This is how the model looks at present. I have lost around half of the approximately 200 mls I had mixed.I have a number of grey paints. So I may redo the upper hull and mix another batch and share it between some 50mls pots I have. 

[king derelict]

Horribly annoying and sorry to hear it. After spending the morning adding PErailings to the Derfflinger I managed to drop a pair of tweezers which landed…..right on the new railings. There’s something going around today.

alan

[AlanDavison]

Sounds like you need to take more water with it 🥳

[king derelict]

1 hour ago, AlanDavison said:

Sounds like you need to take more water with it 🥳

Today I would probably spill that too

alan 

[Paul Jarman]

2 hours ago, king derelict said:

Horribly annoying and sorry to hear it. After spending the morning adding PErailings to the Derfflinger I managed to drop a pair of tweezers which landed…..right on the new railings. There’s something going around today.

alan

I did the same working on Titanic.Only I managed to drop a pair of pliers on the stern railings. 

[vossiewulf]

 

9 minutes ago, Paul Jarman said:

I did the same working on Titanic.Only I managed to drop a pair of pliers on the stern railings. 

That's it, everyone stops work on their ships for today!

[Paul Jarman]

The hull repainted. I did not have enough of the Tamiya neutral grey to make a good mix. But I did have a number of different Vallejo greys from previous models. They where far to light to really look authentic. But I mixed them with some black and a candy racing blue also from Vallejo. I have manage to mix just over 200mls and that has been decanted into 50mls jars. So if I have another accident which I almost certainly will I won't loose most of the paint. I think I have come up with a better colour than the neutral grey I was originally painting the hull. Not quite as dark as I would have liked but looks good with the dark grey bottom. I also remembered why I prefer The Vallejo colours the are so good. Excellent coverage and all round better paints to work with. The black boot line is Tamiya lacquer paint. This is very good paint and covers well. It dries very fast. But looks good. It looks lighter than it is in the photo because of the flash on the camera. 

Edited 4 hours ago by Paul Jarman