Landlubber Mike Posted July 8, 2014 #31 Posted July 8, 2014 I'll echo what others said and say it's Captain's choice Paint is great in that it can help cover up mistakes. Some people on here do an amazing job with paint. I don't know that I have the patience to thin paint down and paint 10-30 coats though to really do it right like some people do. I also find some paint a little too garish for me on a model, like white paint (even when using a dull white). I know for me, I really like the natural wood effect, particularly when the wood is oiled. That being said, since some wood is difficult to work with like ebony, to add some color to the model, I'm looking into using dyes and stains instead. There are a lot of black/ebony dyes and stains out there, and I think I found a couple of red stains from General Finishes that could work nicely if I decided to go with red bulwarks and gun carriages. Quote Mike Current Wooden builds: Amati/Victory Pegasus MS Charles W. Morgan Euromodel La Renommèe Plastic builds: Hs129B-2 1/48 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 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 Eduard Sikorsky JRS-1 1/72 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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