Thanks guys!
And please 'steal' away!
It's just a technique...
EJFoeth wrote:
I also noticed the pure black you applied blends in nicely... I just added some black spots and they are so... black! Filters to the rescue
I rarely use pure black for weathering (only for smoke-effects), but I always 'warm it up' a bit with some raw umber oil paint. So in fact it is a very dark brown I use for shadows, stains etc., but it looks black.
GewoonWouter wrote:
Rigging is still one of the more scary bits for me as well I guess. I always wonder how people get a nice firm bond on such a small surface. I have besides my Yamato a 1/350 U-Boot in the pipeline (Werner De Keersmaekers' amazing work really made me decide to try it) but attaching the rigging is something which gives me headaches (and I never ever have headaches
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I'm also still a novice at it. I'm use Jim Baumann's stretched sprue techniques, as they are described in detail somewhere on this forum. They work very good indeed!
Since the forces are very small, the bond doesn't need to be especially firm. Gell type superglue usually does the trick, sometimes reinforced with a tiny droplet of liquid superglue (and hidden afterwards with some matt varnish). Only for attaching a length of stretched sprue to another piece of rigging, I use Revell glue (like Jim).
For longer rigging in 1/350 scale, I might prefer Ushi's stuff. I have used it a little before, and it glues very easily and strongly with superglue too.
GewoonWouter wrote:
you're on a roll it seems ^^
The end of the project is near, so a lot of stuff that took a lot of preparation time is now finally coming together. But that is certainly a lot of fun indeed!
Cheers,
Marijn