Argh!! I need a good stiff drink I think. Might have to open my 21 year old Scotch and have a wee dram or 20..
If I paint the Rodney in her 'Sink The Bismarck' scheme it is going to look alot like the 1/200 HMS Nelson I have sitting in the stash which is going to be in her late war Haze Grey scheme.
But stuffing around trying to get the right colours and the actual scheme correct seems like a very large PIA and waste of time. As I can't seem to find decent sized diagrams of both sides of the ship in her camo scheme it is going to be very difficult to make my masks up for spraying the scheme as I usually do. And brush painting the huge hull etc is just not really feasible.
Where's that Scotch....
Argh!! I need a good stiff drink I think. Might have to open my 21 year old Scotch and have a wee dram or 20..
If I paint the Rodney in her 'Sink The Bismarck' scheme it is going to look alot like the 1/200 HMS Nelson I have sitting in the stash which is going to be in her late war Haze Grey scheme.
But stuffing around trying to get the right colours and the actual scheme correct seems like a very large PIA and waste of time. As I can't seem to find decent sized diagrams of both sides of the ship in her camo scheme it is going to be very difficult to make my masks up for spraying the scheme as I usually do. And brush painting the huge hull etc is just not really feasible.
Where's that Scotch....
Hi Warren,
Your model mate. At the time of the Bismarck chase I think the hull was AP507B and the superstructure was 505C.
Not sure when she was repainted, sometime in 1942, the shields weren't added to the 4.7 until august '43 - give or take the kit fit will be close for mid / late 42, at which tme she could have still been in grey.
But as I said it is your model.
If I get the puppy I will be backdating to the Bismarck chase fit.
Cheers
Si
Nice work Warren.
I blag my way around RN camo with Tamiya acrylics, I am not totally precious about the exact shade, it looks about right, I'll take it.
I would use:-
AP505C - XF80 RN light grey.
MS1 - XF69 Nato Black
MS2 -XF58 olive green, toned down with some XF80, or white.
B5 - XF18 Medium blue mixed with a little XF20 medium grey.
I can't give you exact proportions because I just stir it till I am happy.
Frankly I do it the hard way because I have never got the hang of airbrushing enamels.
Hope that helps Mate.
Cheers
Si
Nice work Warren.
I blag my way around RN camo with Tamiya acrylics, I am not totally precious about the exact shade, it looks about right, I'll take it.
I would use:-
AP505C - XF80 RN light grey.
MS1 - XF69 Nato Black
MS2 -XF58 olive green, toned down with some XF80, or white.
B5 - XF18 Medium blue mixed with a little XF20 medium grey.
I can't give you exact proportions because I just stir it till I am happy.
Frankly I do it the hard way because I have never got the hang of airbrushing enamels.
Hope that helps Mate.
Cheers
Si
Warren,
Nice progress. Like how the ladders are off-set from the walls. A lot of modelers will just lay the ladder on the wall removing the 3D effect.
Sorry I can't help you with your paint question. Sounds like to don't like enamel paints. I prefer enamels over acrylics on ship models.
Mark
Am building the 1/200 Nelson also with Pontos set and after i installed the metal barrels i noticed that the last turret (closest to the bridge) cannot rotate freely anymore as the barrels are touching the middle barbette, they are either too long or something else in wrong with the dimensions of the parts.Have you noticed that yet?
Great progress, Warren, and that etch looks fantastic!
A small suggestion; the three pronged device with the spoon-like ends appears to be an anemometer; should the ends be rotated 90 degrees?
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