Many thanks everyone!
pascalemod wrote:
Will you mount it on water? Kinda feel like it deserves some perfect water base...
Yes!!! Unfortunately most of this thread fell victim to Photobuckets' decision to stop third-party hosting, otherwise you could see in the earlier pages that the ship is the centerpiece of a diorama.
Construction of all elements is finished, and I'm already looking forward to painting the other parts of the diorama when Amagi is finished.
This is the unpainted layout:
EJFoeth wrote:
Is the dust applied per brush and left there? Does it need fixation?
I guess you mean the pigment powders I used on the stacks?
I applied it dry with a fine brush, without fixation. This means I shouldn't touch it anymore or get it wet, but I don't plan on doing that anyway. For soft borders like this, the only way to fix it would be to very gently mist fixating fluid (thinner) over it with an airbrush.
I did first apply the soot stains with Humbrol enamels though. The pigments are only added over the top of those to get that really extra-mat dusty feel. The Humbrols under it assure me that the effect will not fade over time should the pigments partly deteriorate.
I usually avoid pigment powders, so I don't have too much experience with them.
EJFoeth wrote:
And 25 hours on the lines?
JIM BAUMANN wrote:
I think he wants to say..-- is that all...?!!!
I'm very sure that's what Evert-Jan wants to say!
Well, everything is relative of course...
Some people finish an entire 1/700 model in that amount of time...
And unless it is a complicated one, I can paint a 54mm figure in 25 hours to competition standard.
Together with an extra 5 hours or so for the dirt and flaked paint below the dark lines, for me that amounts to a full month of hobby time.
But I guess for scratchbuilding correct planking patterns on a 1/350 scale battlecruiser, 25 hours is nothing...
Ship modelling is so damned time-inefficient...
Koppalakki wrote:
Not many realize how long such small things take if you really want to pull them off!
Exactly! Compared to figure- and AFV-modelling, ship modelling generaly has a relatively strong bias towards construction. Many modellers spend about 90% of their time on construction and 10% on painting. With me (and I guess you too!) it is at least 50-50%.
Getting the most out of a paintjob does indeed take a lot of planning, method, technique, and therefore time, but the results are really worth it. Besides, I don't need to tell you it is really fun to do!
Many thanks again for the nice words everyone!
Marijn