I have all the rigging complete. One of the guys in our local club gave me some good instructions to help improve what I was doing with rigging. I had a lot of glue bombs on King George V And trouble just getting the rigging line to stick to the masts. turns out new superglue is really important. And then I was using a needle to apply the superglue so that it wasn’t just the exact location that the line connected to the mast. Thrilled there are no glue bombs on this one. I have all the paint on the easy line and I am ready to add insulators and then do some flat tire work.
Finished up a bunch of the little guns and targeting radar’s. I’ve got a flory wash on the superstructure now so that I can get everything to match in tone. Painting and detailing the aircraft is next. I’ll do that while I’m working on the water base
Just a quick liberty in port here, heard there was a Japanese Task Force in the area…
A true teaser shot. It’s not set all the way in the base or mounted or anything I just wanted to see what the water looked like versus the camouflage scheme.
Tonight i worked on the water. I laid out all the tissue with a bottle of realistic water that i bought some time ago. Filled in all the gaps along the hull. Then started adding some white caps to the waves and some texture in between waves. Once this dries I’ll add a little more color, whites and teal greens and some sea green near the hull to add some depth. I tried out my sons wide angle lens for the iphone but need some practice aigning it. Pics seem to be a tad blurry.
This one’s a good comparison to the prior one with no tissue and water effects…
And a side note, the water effect isn’t dry yet. I do like taking the pocs when it’s wet tho because it gives a good idea of what it will look like after painting the white caps and adding some cotton.
Small detail–the main battery director ought to be pointed where the main battery is pointing.
Royal Navy practice about the secondary battery pointed in a main batery engagement varied per ship. Typically, they’s track to the main director, unless the secondary directors had some other target to monitor.
thanks Cap’n!
Tamiya apparently doesn’t have this part to scale haha as it wouldn’t rotate any further…it hits the top of the bridge structure(not sure what area that is in front of it). I pulled it off and made a new mounting rod for it. The next pics will have it positioned to match the main battery.
I finished up Tamiya’s 1/350 Prince of Wales today. Built right out of the box because I wanted to practice matching up deck pieces and eliminating the seams they poorly engineered into these kits
I mixed up Vallejo paints to do the camo and cleared everything with MCW 65% flat. Since they included the Japanese bombers I did those up in camo as well to make up this little vingette. The base in pink foam from Home Depot covered with dryer sheets. They make waves super easy to form. The rest is standard water base techniques with acrylic craft paints, cotton and gel medium.
