RUSSIAN PRE-DREADNOUGHT TSESAREVICH 1917

[zak]

Your test seems to have worked.

[Haddock]

      Not much progress since Sword and Lance I'm ashamed to say, however, here's some brass bashing. This could take some time!
Haddock.

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[zak]

Get bashing Tony, I know how you feel, we have had visitors satying.

[Kiteman]

....and I know how you feel after my experience on the Focke Achgelis

[Haddock]

Progress is very slow at the moment for all sorts of reasons but here's a mast with some brass stuck on it.
Haddock

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[zak]

Is the sign behind so that you remember what to model and then do it upside down?

[Kiteman]

i think that that is simply evidence that he has been practicing his spelling before he makes any more mistakes on this website!

[zak]

oooooooooooooooooooh!

[Bigkev]

Nice work Haddock,

Look forward to seeing this come along.
Bigkev

[Haddock]

Funny that the hairspray method has just been mentioned. I'm just about to try it on this little beast. I'm hoping to represent chips, rust and grime with hairspray and washes although I'm using an AK Interactive product that I've used before. If it works, I'll post some pics and describe how I did it, if it don't, I've got a new tin of Mr Muscle!!
This is the picture that gave me the inspiration.
Haddock.

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[zak]

Will Mrs haddock be missing her hair products?

[Bigkev]

If its not the Hairspray she misses, it will be the Mr Muscle when she wants to clean the oven!!
Look on with interest. Hairspray for me?...........................need some hair first!
Bigkev
 

[Kiteman]

All this talk of hairspray and salt makes me think that we have a fetish thing going on at the mo...

[Haddock]

            Well I've tried the hairspray method and although it works I wasn't happy with the result, it looked too "in yer face " for my liking, maybe I used too dark a base colour or it could be just a question of scale, at 1:350, 1mm is about 14 inches so the chips need to be small, almost to the point where you can't see 'em.
            I've settled for " dirty " including the wooden decks. It's difficult to know when to stop, when you can see it clearly, it looks too much. At least with the enamel washes, you can get rid of almost all of it with white spirit.Things seem to look better when you go away and come back in an hour, you seem to get a better idea of what it really looks like,and I can keep adding bits over time till I'm happy with the result.
         If anybody would like to try this stuff, just sing out, your quite welcome.
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[Kiteman]

Looking good Tony, I have often found that with effects and paint jobs it is always better to go away for a while, look at something else that has nowt to do with modelling (perhaps the wife) and then come back, things look different them. Often, if I am not sure I take a photo and look at it that way, things do look different on photos and one gets a fresh perspective.