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Looks good Jean-Bernard!

I am very happy that you managed to solve the bubble issue with some luck in the middle!
The ensemble looks very convincing, and even with some parts missing it has already a good atmosphere!

(is the figurine an old captain or something similar???)

You're almost there (vacations)
Keep safe with your family!!!

Rui

Thanks Rui, almost there, I suppose you know it, but painting a kitchen with 32�C + on daytime is
the atmosphere is really something that just work as a whole of course, this why i will start small colour corrections on the whole of diorama so that it just clicks! Only at this time will i be able to see whether it's a good one or a bad one.
Not a captain as i am not into officers, and i didn't set up for an uniform yet, but i know where it will be and what will be his shape. Actually, It will be quite an out there diorama if i manage to do what I want

a bit of extra work yesterday night:
First the wood

the partially painted underside

then the rust

Here it is fixed at its definitive place.

Of course the 37mm gun will be placed on the round base. There is a lot of color correction to do at this stage, this is why I prefer doing those while the thing is fixed already, even of I will have to take care that no paint actually fall on the sea!

Only one hour of work yesterday, just enough to paint the ladder and the wheel


.. and yet I seem to have forgotten to put a bit of rust on the wheel..

Hi Jean-Bernard

Don't put rust on the wheel - they should be made of brass
Keep on painting (kitchen & model) and enjoy your vacations

Rui

Incredible work...

Brass? well Rui I'm glad I checked the answers today so it will be greenish with a bit of white and black, thanks for this!

Thanks Martin!

but well that's it, the kitchen is finished and I will go! Galil�e will return at the end of the first week of September

ENJOY THE VACATIONS!


Rui

Thanks Rui I did

Time to resurrect the Galill�e.
When I got back last Thursday, some spider already began its nest in the cabin, so I thought it wouldn't be too good if I lingered doing nothing on evenings.

Now well, time to get back to the wheel, "oxidized green powder" like I was told for the wheel's corrosion. yeah right, some sicko-greeny pigments more or less diluted with both white and black diluted paints and here it is.

I finally got round to finish the "white parts", which means the railings on the top of the cabin and the gun. i still have the wooden and oxidized parts of the gun + some rust here and there..

SUPERB and very instructional!

The green verdigris on the wheel looks most convincing- I can confirm-I had a brass bell outside my house--and it had not been polished for 30 plus years-- and looks just like your wheel--perhaps a teeny bit less bright!

Glad you had a nice hioliday- check your inbox-

JIM B

Your work is very inspiring indeed. Gives me some ideas but to smaller "ant scale" dioramas!!! I have not forgot going to the Navy Museum to take photos to the old guns either!

Thanks Jim as always and yes "versdigris" was the word i was searching for yesterday..
thanks Filipe! happy my dio give you some ideas! oh and you have some time for the pictures as I won't be needing them before ooerr at least 7 or 8 months probably as this small diorama is the rubber boat that hides the dreadnought (at least!)

hmm well, time to think time to think.. i feel troubled and yet i think i got past the point where the diorama just falls together and clicks alright.. look at those 2 pics, it's not finished of course, but i am at the point where it begins to look like I wanted it to look..




i completed the gun yesterday night, so of course it does help -guns are a great way to point the view in one direction in dioramas.. they help to set the direction lines which is why i am pretty fond of using them in my dios..



But then have a look at this.. i feel like any modeller that does a bit of ruin and ask himself if he must add some wallpaper on the inside of the wall.
maybe I should add some wallpaper..
Actually i realized yesterday that i forgot one major element to the build : the acoustic devices that help the command team to communicate with every part of the boat. It should really help to put a bit of detail on the cabin.
Of course I will add a few broken planks here and there so that it might look like the boat is really breaking right now..
well plenty of directions in the details, and decisions to make. And then those acoustic devices (10 at least!!) will be very hard to create probably.
oh dear.

All� Jean-Bernard!

It's good to see that you have loaded your batteries during vacation!
All looks VERY GOOD (as usual)

To the communication pipes, I would advice some aluminum tube, and with a small round file you can make the "acoustic speaker/mouth piece", since the aluminum tube is very forgiving... than just add covers here and there

Keep up


Rui

hey Rui thanks for your tip! (and for your comments ) i wouldn't have think of using aluminium indeed, and sadly i didn't have any aluminium tubing of the right diameter to try -but i am sure to memorize the trick!
So i had to work with the good old vacuform method..

first burning the fingers trying to vacuform the right shapes with the help of the wooden tip of a brush! And then cutting those at the right angle.


here's the result

Then piercing the right tip of the cones and enlarging with a blade

sticking some metal tubing...

And here are the 9!

this week-end, i will trim them and add various attachs.. and then finally painting and fixing them inside the cabin

here you can see the "earings" on the Galili�e plans, I don't kniow if the weird disposition is true, or just an artist view to be able to show all of them on the tiny plans, but i thought I would go for it and twist them like a bunch of tulips, I think it looks pretty good this way



phew.. 10mn + time to paint one, and there were 9 of them!

They look good Jean-Bernard
The "tulip flowers" should be brass

Keep up


Rui

Brass?!!! oh dear.. ,
I guess they were repainted
Ah thanks for telling Rui, this innacuracy shall stay uncorrected though

The voice pipes on my current project- HMS Scylla appear to be all painted- so relax!
doing them in 1/700 is less relaxing!- ( stretched sprue on a hot knife blade=flare and cut!)

encs:

JIM B

Without being tooooo picky Jean-Bernard and Jim, those were the days where anything in brass onboard ships would be polished every time the ship wasn't sailing (to keep "moral" and the crew busy).
Nothing against if you're going to keep it other way, though!

I am really enjoying this built, Jean-Bernard, seeing it grow and taking shape, with all the care you're taking to make it full of details... makes me say my word, but I don't want to start an




Rui

HMS Scylla? as an artificial reef I hope I would like to see you vacuform those pipes in 1/700, i'm sure you of all people could do it
Great picture thanks for sending Jim!
I sense you are right there Rui.. Stupid me I should have guess, thanks for telling still! When my stuff is inaccurate I prefer knowing it is so!. So well, I did something that looked satisfactory to me by "rusting" the pipes with verdigris -as the attaches would have been in steel (probably!) , the rust and the green verdigris look great together!
First a mix between paint pigments, white and black colours and here we go..