Thanks guys!
It is about time to add two boats to the skid beams of Victory. But I decided to also paint the other five remaining boats together.
I scratchbuilt them quite some time ago:
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Only the varnished wooden elements (twarts, benches, floorboards, …) needed to be picked out by hand. I used AK 3th gen acrylics for that.
I started with a light sand colour (only the British and French barges are shown here, so I we can zoom in a bit):
I painted over this with diluted brown, creating a light woodgrain effect by painting in the direction of the woodgrain. I started with a lighter brown and then added a darker one to emphasize the effect. When dry, I coated the ‘wood’ with acrylic satin varnish to get the varnished feel of the real thing:
The rest of the painting process was the same as for the ships.
First some filters with different tones oil paints to add some colour variation. I tried not to get these on the varnished wood parts.
Three of the boats have been damaged. I painted the base colour of the damage with Humbrol enamel (here only on the British barge):
Now I shaded all the details with very dark brown oil paint:
Next, I highlighted edges and details, and of course the damaged areas. I also used Humbrol enamels for that. Finally, I painted the small details (mast clamps, golden rim on the barge, rudder pins):
For most of the boats, that was it!
The French barge:
English 32ft barge:
French cutter:
British 34ft launch:
British 28ft pinnace:
The only clinker built boats were the smallest ones, the British 18ft cutter ('jollyboats'). I have two of them: the damaged one on Victory and the other one in the water.
Contrary of some of the more adventurous scratchbuilders here (I’m looking at you EJ and Eberhart!
), I decided to build the hulls smooth and suggest the overlapping planks with paint only.
Smooth hulls:
And the planks painted on with diluted oil paint:
Painting these lines is of course fine work, so it does take a bit of time: about 45 minutes to one hour for each boat. But I’m guessing that’s still a lot less than actually building the overlapping planks (which I would never be able to do this finely anyway…).
But of course, these boats will mostly be viewed like this:
Or even worse like this:
Anyway, it was a fun challenge to render the clinker planking effect!
And a small reminder of the scale/size of these. This also gives a better idea how the painting effects look in real life (because they do look overdone when enlarged as much as in all the photos above).
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