this is the beginning of the port side weathering ,this is my first attempt at weathering a ship,so i’m sure i did it wrong[banghead] ,so if yall could take a look and let me know what you think,what i did to much of,not enough ,etc.
and this is a photo(blurry)of the lights in the hanger bay,it’s not a good pic but it does show the lights and their working[swg]
thanks for looking and all comments are welcome and as always thanks for the advice
I’d say you are definitely getting a good “mid deployment” look with the weathering you have done so far. Take a look at the Big E’s photos on the Navy News website as she starts her last deployment, alllllllllllllll pretty and shiny after that lengthy overhaul … and 3 months later, looking like she got rode hard and put away wet! Rust coming out of almost every hawse hole or discharge port … patches of “newer” gray slapped over the older stuff on the hull … patches and pockmarks along the boot topping … you get the idea.
It’s very, very easy to go overboard with the weathering. I think you’re striking the right balance.
I am as we speak weathering the heck out of my Liberty ship model for my North Atlantic convoy scene, and have found that drybrushing with several shades of Testors brown (rust, flat brown, light brown) out of the little bottles gives acceptable results.
great minds think alike,those are the exact colors i’m using to rust my ship,i just put about 4-5 ml’s of thinner and 2 drops of paint each in and shook the heck out of it,but thanks for the comment,i looked at thos epics of her on the navy newstand site and went from there,she does get dirty alful fast,have you poste dpics of your vessel,i’d like to see them
One thing that puzzled me during a deployment was where all the dirt was coming from! You are 2000 miles from the nearest beach but there is grimy, sandy dirt all over the decks and dirt/dust on all the horizontal surfaces. I suspected that the Navy took it on before we left port and spread it around at night so we squids would have something to occupy ourselves with when we weren’t on watch. I realize now that dust carries for long distances, there are particulates falling from the stacks and blown out of aircraft engines, but at the time it was a real mystery to me. We even had splattered bugs on the bridge windows at times. Once, when we were about 500 miles from the nearest land, we ran into a huge swarm of dragonflies. They flew around us for a couple of hours then disappeared. Weird.
[tup]Very nice keep up the good work.By the way what year are you doing her in. Here’s my nimitz 2005 90% done.
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prowannab - my model wouldn’t help you much from the weathering standpoint, as it was built as a “presentation” model more than anything else. I did do a few subtle things, like different patches of gray on the hull sides, and a little on the flight deck, but that was about it.
Let me tell you, though, by the time I got done assembling, painting and decaling the 37 aircraft on the flight deck, my Enterprise came very, very close to getting launched into low Earth orbit!
That said, PM heading your way.
thanks yall for the encouraging words,RAIDER-HALL your nimitz is looking pretty darn good,did you put tha hanger bay in it ? how did you weather your flight deck? i always use pencil lead on mine.mainly dio’s up to now.MFSOB thanks but i really just wanted to see your work of art.
I’ve used Pactra Acrylic Enamel water wash-up paint.It’s flat dark flyer gray(fs 36320) with just a touch of flat black.Just add black to the gray untill you get the right look.No i did not add a hanger deck,but I will add one on my vinson coming up.That’s the reason both elevators are at that level so you can’t see the hangerdeck.