by aleccap » Sun Feb 12, 2012 2:56 pm
You are doing a really, really good job. If I may poke a slight finger towards the paint work, its powdered in places, now I know nothing about spray-guns etc etc, but a good old rattle tin does a fantastic job, I feel it would such a shame to do a 1st rate job with the etch, scratch, extras here and there and have a blanket of paint mucking up the overall effect because its powdered and thickly placed.
pic 5,6 and 9 above this remark is what I am talking about.
Please understand I am not ripping this apart but trying to offer a constructive view, and the only reason I have bothered to write is to help. How you build is up to you, that's never in despute, your model your build. I keep thinking after poring all that effort into a build, to be told my radar is upsidedown, is great, I don't mind someone telling me, pointing me in the right direction (I refer to my Russian missile cruiser, finished it, felt quite pleased with it, then got a mail telling me the radar was around the wrong way, so off it come, and now waiting to see it in my gallery).
I have a bit of a weakness for IJN heavy cruisers, all great looking ships, only wish I had the room for the big blokes in 1-350.
You are doing a really, really good job. If I may poke a slight finger towards the paint work, its powdered in places, now I know nothing about spray-guns etc etc, but a good old rattle tin does a fantastic job, I feel it would such a shame to do a 1st rate job with the etch, scratch, extras here and there and have a blanket of paint mucking up the overall effect because its powdered and thickly placed.
pic 5,6 and 9 above this remark is what I am talking about.
Please understand I am not ripping this apart but trying to offer a constructive view, and the only reason I have bothered to write is to help. How you build is up to you, that's never in despute, your model your build. I keep thinking after poring all that effort into a build, to be told my radar is upsidedown, is great, I don't mind someone telling me, pointing me in the right direction (I refer to my Russian missile cruiser, finished it, felt quite pleased with it, then got a mail telling me the radar was around the wrong way, so off it come, and now waiting to see it in my gallery).
I have a bit of a weakness for IJN heavy cruisers, all great looking ships, only wish I had the room for the big blokes in 1-350.