Hello all
Thank for your encouraging words--
The very warm summer and post -lock-down work stress has alas made some inroads on
my available model-building time, but there have been a few quantum leaps
The recent photos of the aft decks of my ship model have been conspicuous
by the swimming pool having still been incomplete
From the air--the pool looks neither very blue or the surround ever so very bright
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from different angles in different lighting
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closer up in black and white ....
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even in colour
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a few years back --having also bought the 1/350 version by OMK...
they had provided a pretty good decal for the pool surround
which I had scanned for future refs in case of damage etc so that I could reprint the decal .
That build never happened--domestic pressure-its a biiiiig model-- so I sold the kit to a friend.
I dug out the scan which pretty accurately captured the tile pattern-- BRAVO ! OMK
I had already measured my pool surround--in 1/700 its pretty small 10.1 millimeters loa = 0.34 inch
I reduced the size of my scan and softened the contrast and colour hue to give a less stark effect
and printed various versions with sizes =/- 0.1 mm at a time to get an exact fit
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version no 1 was unsatisfactory , I had simplified the surrounding railings, the contrast was too great , too much blue etc
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when trying to make things better they often get worse first
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to the extent that I also replaced the inboard timber pool surround with a thinner version
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after quite some jigging and poking about with very small railings and people it
looked a bit more like an overhead view photo
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a closer view
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Once that was done I avoided " the elephant in the room " ( the lifeboats.....!)
by diverting my attention to making the forward funnel siren platfrom
The original platform was cast on the funnel --- but was lost during the funnel reshaping and sanding
viewtopic.php?f=59&t=168156#p748736....==> way back in November 2018 (!! )
a new platform of CA infused paper, some GMM gold plus railing cut down and shape completed this task quite effectively
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