Hey fellas,
Well, figured I'd start a thread for my 1:350 USS Nimitz build as I hope to gain some knowledge, tips and tricks, and any help from everyone here.
This is my first 1:350 ship build. While a teenager in the early 90's, I built both the 1/700 Enterprise and Forrestal. After many years of wanting to build a large ship, I bit the bullet and bought the Trumpy Nimitz since I have a lot of time on my hands now.
As of today, I'm on step five in the build with some minimal PE attached. But...I started on an A-6 as a test-bed for the carrier wing.
After construction, she was painted with Model Master Flat Gull Gray and hand-painted in Acrylic white. What I learned from modeling Armor was the use of water color filters that were used on my 1/16 Tiger I build. Using a pea-size drop of water color, mixed with a drop of dish soap and some water, mixed in shot glass, the mixture was applied across the model. After drying, I dipped my small flat brush into water and wiped off the excess and began to wipe away the areas outside of the panel lines. Although the photos show the uncomplete filter wiping, the effect is beautiful, giving depth to the model and that nice-dirty-carrier-ops-plane-look
I ordered the WEM CVN-68 aircraft wing PE set today, so CVW-8 will get the full compliment of PE goodies. After finishing up this A-6, which includes gloss coat, Starfighter decals, PE set, she'll sit in the hangar deck. I learned a lot with just this one model and am going to try some other techniques with the rest of the aircraft.
Man, my eyeballs are going to explode....
Thanks for looking guys,
V/R
Blake
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