pascalemod wrote:
Crisp looking Tsesarevich!
You could try to use a brownish wash few times on those decks that supposed to be linoleum. Wipe off exess with white spriti and you got your nice linoleum decks. .. You glued everything too fast, didnt you ?
Thanks!
I only glues the railing, ammo lockers and those barrel shaped things next to them but that proved to be a problem indeed.
I actually tried that using rust wash from mig. On the rear superstructure it turned out great but the front one was problematic. The forward superstructure deck part has moulded strips that hold down the linoleum and some other small round and square portrusions.
All that combined with the small parts i glued on created surface tension around those parts drawing wash in their direction leaving gaps inbetween. I tried a bit thicker layer of wash to overcome it but to my suprise it started melting the plastic around the details
I managed to salvage it before it was too late, cleaned it up, sanded a bit and repainted without visibale damage.
At that point i was just happy to have avoided a distaster and that i even managed to put on the that crazy railing on the forward superstructure which has more complex shape than it may appear.