Rui Matos wrote:Hi Carl
Looking good, looking very good
Overall, I like the copy of image/composition you have created here.
Also like very much the ability you had in making the area dusty and dirty... not easily achieved in this small scale without overdoing it!
Still, there are three things that I would like to point out:
1 - Panelling on the roofs(*1): very good detail that breaks a big surface, making the dio (even) more interesting;
2 - Edge of shore, if possible make it a little less steep and more rugged;
3 - Sandpaper joint area... if the paint and weathering powders aren't sticking to it, you should re-prime that area and repeat the process. This will work.
Hope this helps
Rui
(*1): in the same way you managed to master the LCS-2 vertical surfaces! Top Notch job!!!!!
Rui,
Thanks for you comments. You know I always welcome them. In fact, I had you in mind when I drilled out the stacks on the Ajax. You recommended that on my USCGC Bering Strait model. I'm sure that's what sold the judges at the Nationals in order to have it place second instead of third, or not at all.
The shoreline, in the photo, actually looks rather steep to me. And I'm not done touching up that area. In fact the landscape piece isn't attached to the water, nor do I have a permanent base made for it, yet. I plan to put some small stones at that beachline. The water is a section of Plastruct "agitated water".
I used the same stencil for the building roofs that I used on the Independence LCS. Good eye!
With the pigment chalks that I'm using, it rests in the texture of the sandpaper. When I smoothed the joint in the sandpaer, that texture was lost, there. There's a coat of paint, there, already and the chalk has no texture to cling to. I'm thinking about applying another piece of 320 grit sandpaper over it in a pattern to simulate a divider between parking lots / work areas / open ground.
The overall color / hue of the landscape is almost matching that of the photo's. It looks a little different in real life than in the pics, online.
Right now, I'm prepping the 3 Knox FF hulls. The problem with these AFV Club kits is the dimple in the hull on the port bow and one on the starboard stern. I also like to sand off the molded-in helo deck markings and those for the warning circles on the forecastle and fantail. I've successfully removed the bulwark from the USS Brewton's bow and replicated the hauser for the anchor.
I might try scratch building the barge next to the 1077, this afternoon or tonight.
Anybody have an idea as to the purpose of this barge?
