I am currentley working on Trumpeter's Nimitz 1:350 scale
My flight deck is currently painted gunship gray and I have used tempera water base black paint for wheathering my carrier deck.
It looks good, but It could be better. Any great ideas for weathering?
Hey Mr.Pekka Rautajoki great work on your carrier. Any tips you could help me with?
PLEASE HELP!
Last edited by THE GREAT ZUES on Thu Feb 24, 2005 9:46 am, edited 8 times in total.
Once ive painted the deck and added the smaller decals (electrical hatches etc). I will give the deck a light going over with MIG black pigment. Then add some more in the more worn areas. This will firstly give the deck a used look as opposed to my Big E's showroom finish. Then it will weather the actual markings somewhat.
Ive been checking out some pics of the current carriers and some of the ones involved in constant deployments have very little in the way of colour left in the markings due to wear and tear.
Here are some pics of the Nimitz flight deck after her deployment to Iraq. I was fortunate to join my son (Lt. Josh Wenker) for a Tiger Cruise from Hawaii to San Diego in Nov. 2003. He is a EWO/Mission Commander on the Hawkeye (58 combat missions in Irag). I have lots more if anyone has an interest.
Kevin
I used a dark gray chalk,and applied it directley. Heavy on area that are mostley worn and faded on
the carrier, and then carfully wiping it off with a dry cloth (any cloth) till you like the results you are looking for.
I found the chalk at a local MICHAEL'S hobby store.
They carry a pack that hold 10 chalks from white,light grey's,dark grey's to black in that pack, its great for military
models.
I am 100% satisfied with realistic results it gives and I'm sure with time and patiance you will be too!
Mr. Zues, please do refain from making a jab (however tempting it may be) at another member of this board. Especially a moderator. It can prove rather....ah...unhealthy to your time here. In regards of Abe's work, his works can be found in the Main Forum under the thread entitled something similar to "what's everyone building now".
Timmy C wrote:Mr. Zues, please do refain from making a jab (however tempting it may be) at another member of this board. Especially a moderator. It can prove rather....ah...unhealthy to your time here. In regards of Abe's work, his works can be found in the Main Forum under the thread entitled something similar to "what's everyone building now".
I "fixed" it. Zues, I trust that won't happen again, thank you. And for what it's worth, he was right - please do not type in all caps.
I don't know if it's already been said, but for any size of ship, the best results I ever get alwayse come from droping a dab of smoke black acrylic model paint in to a teacup of water, mixing it and LIGHTLEY brushing layors on to every part of the model. How weathered you make what size model look depends on the nomber of layors.
This works for just about anything that floats, including old sail ship models and wooden ship models.
If you want it to look old and like it's been sitting unused for a while, then simpley glob layors on followed by a layor or 2 of white acrylic paint mixed and applied the same way.
great pictures of her deck...I seem to recall that we must of been using a darker nonskid back in the late 70s when I worked that deck... I remember when we deployed how great the deck looked with its white stripes and foul lines ect...It didnt take long to get really,really grubby up there.. Those picture really show the ware around the arresting wires to good effect with the nonskid chipped off the worst around the no2 and 3 wires.. also notice the non skid worn off the weld seams .. I would go with a darker deck than the pictures if you are doing an early Nimitz ..but they really show the grime and rubber left from all those tires...I also plan to use some pastels on my Nimitz .. When we came home you could bearly see the 68 on her bow form all the rubber laid down.. Whatever system you use grubby her up...nasty place that deck.. cheers Bill Code
HEY GUYS.
Hey Mr.Pekka Rautajoki great work on your carrier. Any tips you could help me with?
Hey thank for the tip on using chalk for wheathering my carrirer flightdeck, It worked out
