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Hi all well here's one I shelved back in 2015 (can't remember why) Airfix goth the colour totally wrong they would have you paint it blue and gold (other than the transom theres very little gold on her, although she is very colourful mainly red though and vert little blue) ( actually i love the airfix colour scheme but that was not right) other than a few few small things it's a great little kit. it's been resurrected I've redone the woodwork, I figure if the Hermann Marwede is going to be in a seascape i may as well tag this one in with it.

The transom paintwork looks very impressive.

These big sailing ship models always impress but intimidate me.

David

For those who don't know the history of this ship she sank on her maiden voyage king Louis insisted on a public display of his new ship of the line before it had been tested the death toll was said to be 350 souls but was in fact much higher as all the carpenters and sail makers families were invited for it's maiden voyage (children included) and of course they all died too the cause of it's sinking was the lower gun ports were open (in order to do a salute to the king on it's passing of the port) unfortunately the sea flooded in through the open ports and the ship sank.
That is what I am trying to depict here.

I have visited the Vasa it’s an experience well worth doing, I have taken some images that might be useful to you here is the link http://cluster8.secure-staging.uk/ashdown.org.uk/Vasa/

Regards Splash

Thanks for that

Hi all here is the next update

One day I need to tackle something like this! I have the 1/180 (?) Airfix Victory in the stash but my eyes seem to skim over it whenever I'm stash-surfing looking for a next build!
Looking really good KP

The victory is a difficult build (I found it the most difficult and I've built all of them) that said it is a good looking completed kit

Hi all here's the next bit



As an aside look what I won on eBay (last one went for 163 quid I got this for 40 quid)







And my ten min wood effect

I like your wood

Nigel

Very effective wood effective how did you do it please tell.

splash wrote:Very effective wood effective how did you do it please tell.

Yep, 'fess up! How's it done?!!

Hi all well all the detail painting on the hull is done.

I've glued the cannons on the sinking side as when it's attached to the base I think it would be very difficult.





Added to the base, need to get some more Poundland bathroom sealant now for the sea




I did a how to a while ago I thought I had posted it on here will find a copy and post it. It's dead easy.

Hi all, I was asked by a few people how I did this wood effect so thought maybe some of you would be interested.
First of all I apologise my the first pics of the procedure are missing as the pics on my phone we're corrupted for some reason, it dosn't really matter as the process it the same throughout I will explain as we go.
First here is the huge list of things required

this is where my phone let me down I have no pics if this part as they were corrupted(sorry)
the pastels wont stick to plastic so you have to use matt paint (I've no idea if this will work with acrylics as I use enamels but I think it would)
I picked the lightest colour of the wood I'm trying to replicate for the base colour (in this case Humbrol m 63)
paint the wood with a thin coat in the direction of the grain if it looks patchy that is good (helps with the effect)as long as it all has some paint on it (look at the pictures of the hull you can see its very patchy)
once that is dry take the darkest wood colour pastel you are using and lightly drag it over the grain in a random manner not everywhere so it all looks the same , then with the brush, again in the direction of the grain brush it in




then with the highlight colour (we have pictures of the rest of the process from now on) do exactly the same



again brush in the direction of the grain





next get some black pastel and dab on details (anywhere that may get stained from water or nooks an crannys where swilling the deck wouldn't get plus a few random areas



now brush across the gain (only very lightly and only a couple of passes)





now brush with the grain as much as you like till you get the desired effect





now comes the important bit (DO NOT VARNISH THIS YET) the varnish stays wet too long and the pastels merge and you just end up with brown blotches. spray with your missus hair spray at a distance of at least 12 inches ( you don't want it to look wet when that is dry then you can spray your varnish.









Just to show the versitility of this here is some wood from my Mefistofeles which I wanted a mahogany effect (its 1/12 so the wood grain effect is much couser)

red base coat



first pastel colour




the genius of this method is if you make a mistake or don't like the effect (untill you varnish it) wash it under the tap dry with a cloth and your missus hair dryer, ten mins and you're ready to go again, you tell me any other method that's that easy to redo.
Hope this is of some help to some one

Hi all made a start on the sea around her.