viewfinder32 wrote:
Just started on Military Ships as i normally on 1/35 Armour. Normally how do you guys paint the decks of model ships? As in 1/350 scale? Assemble onto the hull first or paint the decks first?
My last model ship is the 1/350 IJN Yamato, I first assemble all the decks using cement to the hull first, nearly finish assembling all the structures on the decks, before airbrushing the decks, i masked all the anti aircraft gun positions, superstructures, etc which i had finished.
The problem is : "It was really a hell time masking", REALLY difficult to reach some areas with my masking tape. I even had to skip some steps in the manual due to painting problems after my ship is completed assembling. Now i am building the Tamiya's King George V, any good ways for painting the decks to avoid difficulty again? I still had tons of ships to go.
If you got the money then you can buy this:
http://www.hlj.com/product/SSGMCP017 . If you like to go for the cheap or original way then paint it with a good deck color. I recommend just prime the deck. Then spray it. And I do not know what this product is but I have seen someone getting like a Mr. Surfacer product and it was a green latex liquid gel and he wiped the deck areas he painted and tried not to get the metal parts on the decks only the wood and sprayed the whole thing with the ships default paint. Then he got a knife and scraped the latex liquid which dried up. I'll look for the link if you want it. I recall he was making a Yamato.