Thanks guys!
I will try to post small updates a bit more regularly from now on.
dafi wrote:Anyway do not bother too much for the correct color of the patches. My estimation - seen by the missing industrial standards - is, that the outside of the ships must have been a patchwork of different colors, as I suppose that each barrel had a different shade ...
Indeed! And ochre being a natural earth pigment, there could be a lot of variation...
For Victory, I tried to aim for her current colour, but a bit on the yellow cream side. It is easier to make it a bit more pinkish later on, more so than get it more yellowish from a pinkish base. Anyway, there will still be quite some variation in her colours added later...
wefalck wrote:IThat's why life of those people, who build heavivly 'weathered' models is so much easier, they can hide all these mistakes.
Haha! Well, weathering does provide some opportunities for hiding imperfections indeed, and I will most certainly make full use of that here too!
But those opportunities are still pretty limited if the weathering is to be done to scale (regardless of how heavy) and with finesse. And of course well-done weathering also is a challenge in itself, with many possible variations...
wefalck wrote:I would indeed work from light to dark colours and found that on a coat of light coloured acrylic the black usually covers well, when brush-painted.
Yes, Dark colours cover lighter ones much more easily indeed.
But I also don't do the black in one coat. Instead, I use at least two and often 3 thin layers to get a smooth and even covering coat. It adds to the time spent on base-coating of course, but the result is much better than one thick layer. Light over dark is also possible, it just takes more layers...
The colour is coming on... 
