Neil's Italeri 1/35 LCVP Landing Craft

[scottie3158]

Well patience isn’t my strong suit but I had other things to do so the glue had plenty of time to dry, and it seems to have worked.

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I thought about trying to fabricate 4 identical bolts and then I thought ‘sod it , I’ll print them’- that way they will definitely be identical, even when they are handed.

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Printing them also meant that I could rescale them when they proved to be too big... :rolling:
And the carpet monster claimed one of the eyes for the drawbridge cable, so I created one of those too and printed a pair of them.

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So back to the front, as it were,

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Inspired by scottie3158 I added extra bolt heads (which I 3D printed, of course) and weld seams- I reckon my guy would be kicked out of welding school, but hey ,there's a war on you know. And I bent the angle irons as per the image as well.
There’s also bling along the bottom , but whether that will be seen under the water in the diorama is a moot point ( especially as it's a bit higgledy piggledy).
So that’s all for now, thanks for following
Neil

Neil, this is really looking the part. I will have to look into this printing malarkey.

[Stefee]

Not in my wheelhouse but looking very detailed and professional. The ability to print various bits and bobs when needed is certainly a big advantage for you.

[Neil Merryweather]

I have now built all the sub-assemblies and primed them with Halfords rattle can grey . I then pre-painted them in the colours I believe to be the raw materials i.e. plywood , timber, steel, rusty steel and bronze(rudder and propeller and wheel)





The next job is to hairspray the life out of it all!
AND I forgot to mask that dial again! I don’t know why I am worried-it’s going to be hidden by the coxswain figure anyway.
that’s all for now
Cheers
Neil

[scottie3158]

Looking really good mate, this will look a treat when finished.

[Andy T]

Looking fantastic so far Neil.

[JR]

Nice .

[Waspie]

What they all said Neil. Looking good buddy. :thumb2:

[vizenz]

Interesting painting technique. I'm excited to see what it looks like when it's finished.

[Geoffers]

Great stuff Neil, very interesting to watch you build this :thumb2:

Geoff.

[Neil Merryweather]

Interesting painting technique. I'm excited to see what it looks like when it's finished.

Thanks Andreas-me too....... :tongue-out3:

[Neil Merryweather]

Afternoon all.
I am relieved to be able to announce that my first ever foray into the hairspray technique has not crashed and burned!
I wanted to do the hull before it was attached to anything so that by turning it upside down I could get straight horizontal scrape lines.




I used a number of processes, from a wet regular cotton bud, wet pointy cotton bud(Tamiya) to a plastic pointy thing, a cocktail stick and a couple of coloured pencils, black & brown.
I may yet add some washes, but the next step is to airbrush the tide mark, as below


that will be a new experience as well.....
cheers for now
Neil

[scottie3158]

Neil, that is really effective looks just right.

[Neil Merryweather]

Neil, that is really effective looks just right.

Thanks Paul. Yes I am quite pumped about it!

[Andy T]

Very nicely done!

[Neil Merryweather]

My apologies; I got rather carried away with this chipping lark, concentrating on areas that might be hard to reach after assembly, and I ended up putting quite a bit of it together without taking any pics on the way.




I’m not sure why but the top coat on the inside came off in massive chunks rather than actual chipping .



I’m pleased with the Klear treatment on the cable thread- no hairs are visible. And I’m very pleased with my ladder too.
I did spray the ‘tide mark’ as promised. My airbrushing skills are very rudimentary so I had to figure out a way of spraying a straight line with a ‘feathered edge’ without the hard edge of masking tape.
I made a ‘fence’ from foamboard to rest the airbrush on and positioned the hull on the supplied stand with a stern-heavy attitude as that’s how it appears on refences I have (presumably because of the position of the engine).



Looking at the the picture again, maybe I should have gone for masking tape on the lower edge... I wonder what the dirt is- oil maybe?



Anyway that’s where we are today.
Thanks for looking
Neil