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Topic review - Calling all Borodino (Бородино) class (Tsushima 1905) fans
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  Post subject:  Re: Calling all Borodino (Бородино) class (Tsushima 1905) fa  Reply with quote
is poor deck fitment the standard on these kits? I'm finding I have to shave quite a bit of material off to get the deck to sit flush. Currently working on an Eastern Express Borodino.
Post Posted: Thu Jan 17, 2019 2:34 pm
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thank you
Post Posted: Thu Mar 03, 2016 8:28 am
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You can see some of the work needed to make an accurate Orel here

http://karopka.ru/forum/forum263/topic6870/

and Borodino here

http://karopka.ru/forum/forum263/topic6699/
Post Posted: Mon Feb 29, 2016 9:18 am
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The kits is basically the same for Orel and Borodino, the only difference is the funnels used. But the funnels are wrong nyway and need to be replaced. There were many differences between Orel and Borodino which are not reflected in the kits. Actually, the kit that for the basis for these models is a bit of a mix of different ships from the class. It resembles Borodino most of all from the class, but has some elements wrong for that ship. I don't think it's worth buying both kits unless you want to do a lot of scratch building for Orel.

I've always hoped a more accurate plastic kit of either of these ships would become available, but sadly it hasn't happened.
Post Posted: Mon Feb 29, 2016 8:35 am
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Tell me please, guys, Borodino and Oriol was identical ships? Worth buying both Kits?
Post Posted: Sat Feb 27, 2016 5:13 pm
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I'm not sure what do you mean by "detail 3D info or drawings of the view under waterline"? Hull lines? Views of the hull bottom? If so, I haven't seen any 3D renderings of those ships. I do have hull lines of Orel and Borodino (their hull lines were identical) but I haven't seen hull lines of Suvorov or Alex III.
Post Posted: Sat Oct 03, 2015 2:31 am
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Hi this is Togo's men,

I wonder if someone in this forum could help and provide me the detailed visual information of Russian Borodino-class ships such as Borodino, Oryol, Knyaz Suvorov, and Imperator Aleksandr III. What I need is the detail 3D info or drawings of the view under waterline for the 4 ships. As you may know that these are sister ships but I heard that there are few different places found but need to know them visually in order to build these 4 full hull ships by myself. Does anybody could help me out on this subject? Your kind support and information will be greatly appreciated…

Regards,
Togo's men
Post Posted: Thu Oct 01, 2015 11:45 pm
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Yes, pure black will make details disappear and model will look pretty boring so experimenting with colors and highlights seems a way to go :)
Post Posted: Fri Apr 10, 2015 8:26 am
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Hi, I was also evaluating the question of the black color even if have no additional info about the original color. But let's say it was black... now I think that the weathering due to a long exposure at sea should be considered. Another aspect is the pure technical representation of a black object in scale and in a representative model. Just for a "joke" here is a picture B/W of my mobile which indeed is 100% black. But as you can see due to the lightning the object itself appears far from the pure black (I have drawn a black rectangle in the middle). Moreover there is the scale effect which was already discussed.

So considering all these aspects, my advice is to start with a grey color not extremely dark and than darken all the recesses and highlighting all the edges and horizontal parts (turret roofs, etc...) step by step. One can go on with these processes until a pleasant result is achieved.


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Post Posted: Wed Apr 08, 2015 10:39 am
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Lots of good info here. I think both are points are valid. Even if something was pure black like a pair of shoes an artist would never use black except as a shadow color. You must use a dark gray in order to have darker recesses. No different than using a pure white. One needs a drop of ...something in pure white to create a shadow color. A pure white should only be the brightest highlite color.

Thanks for the Retvizan/Sevastapol color inputs. Was hoping the Sevastapol was for a moment at least....the dark olive. Would have been far more fun to paint.
Post Posted: Thu Feb 28, 2013 12:13 am
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Ok .... thank you for that info Kromma.

It is hard to get any of the often named Russian books here in Germany with theme of Imperial Russian Navy, So I was lucky that a colleague had it and lent it me.

What is about this book, also mmore fairy tales including or ok? Anyone any experience?

"The Imperial Russian Navy" from Anthony J. Watts

I found it with different prices reaching from 42.00 GBP on amazon UK up to 420.00 USD on amazon US (ehm, some error at someone here I guess?). Before I buy this, I better ask now. :-)

About Black or not Black or "how black" in general:

As previously told, black in general becomes by weathering and fading always a more or less dark grey shade. How fast depends on several factors, for example type of color, used thinner and other things.
But in general no black stays really black after some time and this is proofed by countless examples. Only to name one: At most NATO members, military vehicles are painted in Forrest Green base, Leather Brown and Black on it. Even these 3 colors are CARC colors (Chemical Agent Resistant Color), the black is i.e. on German and US vehicles faded to dark grey after only some month.

Out of this and because I will not build a Borodino or other ship fresh painted from Yard, the fading and weathering effect will (and in my opinion must) be included in painting = there is no pitch black on any Russian ship. :-)
Post Posted: Wed Feb 20, 2013 5:54 am
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Christian M. wrote:
For example... Alexander Taras.

This is the author, who can not be trusted.
He never worked in the Navy Archives, so he writes absolutes stupidity.
The Imperial Russian Navy used the classic (standard) black paint (not the "dark-dark-dark-dark gray"), and don`t use any fantastic "anthracite.". :)
Post Posted: Tue Feb 19, 2013 11:22 pm
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For example in "Ships of the Imperial Russian Navy 1892–1917" from Alexander Taras :-)
Post Posted: Tue Feb 19, 2013 4:36 pm
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Christian M. wrote:
Yep, but this "soot" was explained / named to be in fact "un gris très foncé à l'anthracite" by the French Engineers in the Franco-Russian Yard on Galerniy Island who were inflicted in the battleship Oriol ... source are different, but one is also to be found in the French Yard who built Tsarevich.

Where did you read this?
Post Posted: Tue Feb 19, 2013 8:49 am
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Well, we will never know how black "soot" was but I will happily settle for "coal black". And I have never seen it described as anything other than "black".
Post Posted: Thu Feb 14, 2013 10:55 am
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Charlestonguy wrote:
They might have been black with a healthy coat of rust JMHO


No ... rusty for sure, but not still black or like black ... if not making a "fresh from the Yard version" of them as model.

Point is still the open question "how black" this color was, which is declared in different shades by different people in different sources. Out of this, the color will become much lighter (how much lighter depends again on "how black it was before"), being several month in sun and salty air on oceans.
:-)
Post Posted: Thu Feb 14, 2013 9:52 am
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They might have been black with a healthy coat of rust JMHO
Post Posted: Thu Feb 14, 2013 7:33 am
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A bit of misunderstanding Christian. I ment that those hulls were black when freshly painted. They certainly weren't black at the end of a journey :)
Post Posted: Wed Feb 13, 2013 10:47 pm
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Yep, but this "soot" was explained / named to be in fact "un gris très foncé à l'anthracite" by the French Engineers in the Franco-Russian Yard on Galerniy Island who were inflicted in the battleship Oriol ... source are different, but one is also to be found in the French Yard who built Tsarevich.

However ... After 14,000 km travel and several Month on sea, you can be sure that they were not black or like black when being in battle at Tsushima. A good example from other ground as comparsion is this German "Panzer Grey" early in WW-2. Looking pure on RAL chip for this color, you have anthracite and not grey. But in fact, they were dark grey ... why? Weathering effect. ;-)
Post Posted: Wed Feb 13, 2013 3:29 pm
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errrr... Borodinos' hulls weren't "very dark grey". They were black. Remember that Russian Imperial Navy did have base colour called "soot".
Post Posted: Wed Feb 13, 2013 10:19 am

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