Advice ref painting a plastic ship deck

[BattleshipBob]

Ordered!

[BattleshipBob]

And on Ron's advice, ash grey paint ordered

[boatman]

HI Bob matey as 570 says below
(Some folks can get bogged down in 'Technicalities' Keep it simple.)
(570 QOUTE)
An yes he's right Bob an all the other guys as well just keep it simple an enjoy the build as if you keep worryin about these deck colours you wont enjoy the build as you have enough worries now so enjoy life an your modelin
chrisb

[stillp]

I just searched for "HMS Belfast London" on Google earth and zoomed in on the image. Some interesting colour variations.
Pete

[Gern]

I saw a build of a 1/350 ship (maybe the Graf Spee?) by a guy called Guido Hopp. He started with one colour then masked about 10% individual planks at random and sprayed them a slightly different colour - and mask another 10% then repeat until the last lot of masking.

The result was truly amazing but that's a LOT of work!

PS He had a major disaster with his build when a shelf collapsed on it just before it was finished. He must have been totally gutted!

[BattleshipBob]

I just searched for "HMS Belfast London" on Google earth and zoomed in on the image. Some interesting colour variations.
Pete

There's also a picture of Nelson or Rodney looking forward at the three triple turrets. The variation in the planking is very interesting.

[BattleshipBob]

I saw a build of a 1/350 ship (maybe the Graf Spee?) by a guy called Guido Hopp. He started with one colour then masked about 10% individual planks at random and sprayed them a slightly different colour - and mask another 10% then repeat until the last lot of masking.

The result was truly amazing but that's a LOT of work!

PS He had a major disaster with his build when a shelf collapsed on it just before it was finished. He must have been totally gutted!

Saw that myself on YouTube, it was Graf Spee and a lot of work and after that the shelf!!

[spanner570]

I saw a build of a 1/350 ship (maybe the Graf Spee?) by a guy called Guido Hopp. He started with one colour then masked about 10% individual planks at random and sprayed them a slightly different colour - and mask another 10% then repeat until the last lot of masking.

Not single planks, but that is more or less wot I do. But the easy way....With a brush! Wink, wink! :upside:

Ivor Caulkin Gunn