Columbus' ship Niña

Tim Reynaga · Post by **Tim Reynaga** » February 9th, 2015, 3:05 pm

Just finished this little model of Columbus' favorite ship, the caravel Niña.

It was built out of the box (except for the sewing thread rigging) from an old Pyro molding from 1966.

Cool kit - not entirely accurate, but lots of fun!

Ian · Post by **Ian** » February 9th, 2015, 3:22 pm

That's delightful. Great work on the wood.

fredk · Post by **fredk** » February 9th, 2015, 3:23 pm

Loverly job

iggie · Post by **iggie** » February 9th, 2015, 4:58 pm

Impressive!

Post by **splash** » February 9th, 2015, 5:12 pm

That wood effect looks brilliant on such a small scale how did you do it?

Regards Splash

ShaunW · Post by **ShaunW** » February 9th, 2015, 7:40 pm

Very nice and for such an oldie the detail doesn't look half bad at all. Great work.

Tim Reynaga · Post by **Tim Reynaga** » February 10th, 2015, 7:15 am

splash wrote:That wood effect looks brilliant on such a small scale how did you do it?
Regards Splash

Thanks guys for your comments!

As for the wood, I hadn’t tried this before, but a World War One aircraft builder in my model club told me he had achieved some great natural wood effects on plastic using artist’s oil colors over Tamiya acrylics; it seems that one of the advantages of these water based paints over my usual enamels is their resistance to oil based thinners... so I put his method it to the test by slathering Grumbacher Raw Umber all over the neatly painted hull.

...and it looked absolutely awful!

Just as advertised, though, the oil paint covered but didn’t attack the Tamiya Desert Yellow (XF-59) acrylic base color. When I took a thinner-dampened towel and wiped the oil paint away, it left dark brown shadows in the recessed areas and a nice brownish filter over the rest of the “wood” of both the hull sides and the lighter decks. I was delighted!

I did the same thing on the base, nameplate, masts, and yards. It was super easy! And even though my technique is still a little ham fisted, it worked well on the heavy-ish detail on the kit.

Post by **splash** » February 10th, 2015, 1:25 pm

Cheers Tim on a great demonstration on how to get a wood effect.

I will store that for future use.

Regards Splash

Dirkpitt289 · Post by **Dirkpitt289** » February 10th, 2015, 1:58 pm

Bravo, well done.

February 10th, 2015, 2:52 pm

Very good ! Your finish is great.

iggie · Post by **iggie** » February 10th, 2015, 6:46 pm

Very useful how-to, Thanks!

ShaunW · Post by **ShaunW** » February 10th, 2015, 7:28 pm

Excellent, that is a great how-to, thanks for posting.

Marek · Post by **Marek** » February 11th, 2015, 5:13 am

Very nice and thank you for the painting demo as well!

IvanV22 · Post by **IvanV22** » March 2nd, 2015, 10:53 pm

Great finish!!
Thank You for the info on the tree finish!!!

Post by **JamesPerrin** » March 2nd, 2015, 11:58 pm

Beautifully painted.

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