The Ship Model Forum

Posted: **Sun Mar 31, 2019 3:58 am**

Great job on the funnel!

The deck looks good too! I wonder though, what are the advantages of pencil over a classic enamel or oil paint wash?

Posted: **Sun Mar 31, 2019 7:13 am**

Thank you guys! The pencil lets me get a more defined outline of each plank.

Posted: **Sun Mar 31, 2019 8:18 am**

Beautiful funnel work.

Posted: **Sun Jun 30, 2019 8:13 pm**

This deck took much longer than I had expected due to the great difficulty of hiding the seams. Making the planking look uninterrupted and rescribing areas that had to be sanded down were the biggest challenges:

IMG_5551 by Joseph Simon, on Flickr

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Posted: **Thu Jul 11, 2019 8:53 pm**

Joe, did you time how long it took you to trace the whole deck? As simple as it looks i'm sure it was time consuming.

Jose

Posted: **Thu Jul 11, 2019 9:29 pm**

Filling the seam, priming, sanding and rescribing not to mention tearing the paint up due to poor adhesion totaled 120 hours, much more than I had anticipated.

Posted: **Fri Jul 12, 2019 4:54 am**

Joe Simon wrote:Filling the seam, priming, sanding and rescribing not to mention tearing the paint up due to poor adhesion totaled 120 hours, much more than I had anticipated.

120 hours for the deck alone? Wow, so glad I'll be using the Pontos deck then...respect though!

Posted: **Sun Jul 14, 2019 7:59 pm**

Thank you guys. I think I finally got the 'look' of the lower hull right. I wanted to bring out the plating detail without overdoing it. Vallejo paint, some pencil and covering it again with the base coat of IJN Hull Red from WEM seemed to do the trick:

IMG_5567 by Joseph Simon, on Flickr

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Posted: **Sun Jul 14, 2019 9:32 pm**

It's beautiful!!!!!!!

Posted: **Mon Jul 15, 2019 12:20 am**

The hull plating is great, I wish I had something like that on Princeton.

Posted: **Mon Jul 15, 2019 1:03 am**

That turned out well mate, looks good!

Posted: **Mon Jul 15, 2019 10:31 am**

Very nice. And sounds fairly fast and easy way to do it.

Posted: **Mon Jul 15, 2019 11:43 am**

The plating looks great, Joe.

120 hrs on the deck??? Insane.

Using a light wash..........................

Posted: **Mon Jul 15, 2019 12:26 pm**

That hull looks fantastic. Well done, Joe.

Posted: **Wed Jul 17, 2019 6:53 pm**

Thank you guys for all the kind words!

Posted: **Wed Jul 17, 2019 9:22 pm**

Brilliant.

Posted: **Thu Jul 18, 2019 12:13 pm**

Beautiful work!

Posted: **Sun Jul 28, 2019 10:37 am**

All those unique touches is what makes a model... well, unique. At the end it will be time well spent Joe!

Jose

Posted: **Wed Jul 31, 2019 5:19 pm**

Thank you guys! Very kind of you all.

Posted: **Sun Aug 25, 2019 10:38 pm**

Still touching up here and there but the gray is on the hull now also. The seam filling on this hull has been more difficult than any I have previously built:

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