Painting Deck Details
Finished putting on the PE wall pieces today and drilled all of the remaining portholes. Eduard pieces are very accurate. You'll note the piece in the very center of the frame has a gap at the bottom. At first, I thought this was a mistake, but then realized that a piece is glued in which includes part of the deck and the long 20 mm AA gun tub. Therefore, I made sure to glue the piece flush with the top edge. It really makes a difference to see all of this surface detail on a part that originally had plain sides. I have the old Missouri on the work bench as a reference (and source of emergency parts) so it's neat to compare the original model with the augmented one.
Since I'm still waiting on the decking, I have to be careful what gets glued and what doesn't. For example, all of the overhanging AA gun tubs have to wait since they would be in the way of installing the decking AND I'm going to add some brass wire posts that hold these things up on the real ship. They don't just hang out there. Each one has two or more poles that support the overhang. Those poles have to go in after the decking.
So I concentrated on hand painting all the deck blue features. Every horizontal surface is deck blue including floors of gun tubs. I paint the blue. Let it dry. Go hit it again where it's a little thin. Let it dry. Then using haze gray, back paint any sloppy parts. I used a little masking on the tops of the 5" gun houses to make a clean demarkation from deck blue to haze gray. This took the better part of 3 hours work.
This picture shows the blue before back painting the gray.
Here's a close up of the parts after the back painting. The bridge area shows up nicely and will look good when all the superstructure is assembled.
I'm off tomorrow and my wife's heading to Nordstroms in Cincinnati so I'll be able to get some more quality modeling time in. I will start applying the PE details to all these accessory parts. There are hundreds of them. The last stuff that goes on (before rigging) are the railings. I am not looking forward to that. The Eduard railings are amongst the finest etched in the business and are very, very easy to deform when handling. They do look good though...
Finished putting on the PE wall pieces today and drilled all of the remaining portholes. Eduard pieces are very accurate. You'll note the piece in the very center of the frame has a gap at the bottom. At first, I thought this was a mistake, but then realized that a piece is glued in which includes part of the deck and the long 20 mm AA gun tub. Therefore, I made sure to glue the piece flush with the top edge. It really makes a difference to see all of this surface detail on a part that originally had plain sides. I have the old Missouri on the work bench as a reference (and source of emergency parts) so it's neat to compare the original model with the augmented one.
Since I'm still waiting on the decking, I have to be careful what gets glued and what doesn't. For example, all of the overhanging AA gun tubs have to wait since they would be in the way of installing the decking AND I'm going to add some brass wire posts that hold these things up on the real ship. They don't just hang out there. Each one has two or more poles that support the overhang. Those poles have to go in after the decking.
So I concentrated on hand painting all the deck blue features. Every horizontal surface is deck blue including floors of gun tubs. I paint the blue. Let it dry. Go hit it again where it's a little thin. Let it dry. Then using haze gray, back paint any sloppy parts. I used a little masking on the tops of the 5" gun houses to make a clean demarkation from deck blue to haze gray. This took the better part of 3 hours work.
This picture shows the blue before back painting the gray.
Here's a close up of the parts after the back painting. The bridge area shows up nicely and will look good when all the superstructure is assembled.
I'm off tomorrow and my wife's heading to Nordstroms in Cincinnati so I'll be able to get some more quality modeling time in. I will start applying the PE details to all these accessory parts. There are hundreds of them. The last stuff that goes on (before rigging) are the railings. I am not looking forward to that. The Eduard railings are amongst the finest etched in the business and are very, very easy to deform when handling. They do look good though...
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