1930's Aberdeen Steam Trawler - Modified 1/48 Calder Craft Milford Star

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Hi All, Started the big painting job on the Trawler. Started by giving the rivets a coat to help hide the black rivet heads. This was followed by a further two overall coats of the base clour. This was hand painted with Lifecolor UA 097 Sand.

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I should add that before I applied the overall coats I used a small piece of rough foam about 6mm square, lghtly coated it with PVA glue and dabbed this onto the model at random locations to try to duplicate the blistering effect of rust under the paint. See below for the finished effect.

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As mentioned earlier the Caldercraft kit does not come with any decals, so I drew what I wanted up and had 'Barry's Model Lettering' make up vinyl letters, see below for what was delivered.

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The first photo below shows the Funnel colour of my Trawlers Sister Ship the 'Star of the East', and the finished Funnel for the model - I still have to weather it.

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The Funnel top is gloss black, and the other colour is 90% Lifecolor UA 247 Blue Grey with 10% UA 303 Green.

Now for the hard bit, going to start post shading the superstructure with the base colour dluted with 30% white to give it a heavy weathered look, then I will attemp to rust it up - wish me luck never done it before. Cheers Derek

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[Guest]

hi derek

doing a grand job their mate looking really good and gl with the weathering be interesting to see how that turns out never tried anything like that myself before.

steve

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Thanks Steve, I am taking the weathering nice and slow. I have now gone over the model with an airbrush free hand and added faded patches with the mix I mentioned in my last posting to represent fading by the sun and salt build up. I still have lots to do but I will be switching to artists oils for the rest, including the blistering paint on the plating. Have painted the portholes with Brass, the stove pipes black/grey 50/50 mix, and have roughly gone over all of the handrailes with Lifecolor UA 701 'Rust Dark Shadow'. Studying photos etc I note that the darkest shade of rust is the rusted bare metal which usually has a crearly defined outline. So I have roughly hand painted the rust on and will then add an off white, at which time I will try to make the rusted areas more realisting. Plan to then mark the white with a lighter rust colour to indicate small chips beginning to rust and do an oil wash to represent the white paint turning orange in the chipped area as you see on steel.

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Will post more photos when the superstructure is all rusted up. Cheers Derek

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[Guest]

Stunning progress. Keep up the good work.

Andy

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Stunning progress. Keep up the good work.Andy

I agree top notch stuff Derek

[Ian M]

Looking very nice Derek. Are you going to dot all those rivets?!?!

When I did my mini sub, "Seehunden" I mixed up a very thin wash of turps and oils paints. Burnt sienna and Burnt Umbra. A fine pointed brush then just dot it on top of the detail. It will self find the edges and be darker in the edges. Places where there is lots of water run off there will also be rust stains.

Ian M

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Andy/Trey, thanks for the encouragement.

Ian, Life's too short for that method I think, besides the trawlers were not painted very often and in those days they had no shot blasting and spraying; in Aberdeen at least, and used chipping hammers (latterly pneumatic) and wire brushes, so the rivet heads tended to be caked in paint. I am going for the blistered paint look see photos below. I am still tweeking the look, I get up each morning get out the brush and paints and do an treek. As you can see I am just starting the planking outside the wheelhouse. Cheers Derek

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Hi All, Have finished the planking around the wheelhouse and dirtied it up with Micro-Mart's Weathering Powder.

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I used Micro-Mart's 'Window Glazing for Models' on the Portholes and Engine Room Skylights

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Now have the Wheelhouse, Funnel and Engine Room vents added to the superstructure; still have a lot of small detail to add i.e. lifebelts, spot lights, ships bell etc etc. The more observant of you may notice that I have removed the Stove Pipe from the Wheelhouse roof, didn't look right, and a photo search shows that they were not fitted. I used Tamiya 'Smoke' to dirty the Funnel.

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The Engine Room Hatch was covered with a chocolate foil wrapper and painted green. On the Trawlers of this era all the hatches were fitted with wooden planks and covered with a tarpaulin - no fancy steel watertight hatches in those days.

I just realised that the Wheelhouse roof is missing a compass housing, not supplied with the kit, so will scratch build something for this.

Cheers Derek

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[Ian M]

Great work Derek. It is really starting to look old and used. That stuff you used for the port hole windows, any chance of a photo when it is cured. I use Micro-scales, Kristal Klear for the same job and am interested in how the stuff you use looks when dried.

You have really started some thing with this build. I have been looking at boats again, Andy (skyraider) has bought one, Ron is thinking about it and there are a couple of newer members that are building boats as well. I would like to say thank you for kicking some life into this section.

Ian M

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fantastic mate looks like its been out at sea a while,love it

mobear

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Great work Derek. It is really starting to look old and used. That stuff you used for the port hole windows, any chance of a photo when it is cured. I use Micro-scales, Kristal Klear for the same job and am interested in how the stuff you use looks when dried.]Hi Ian, Here are a few shots of the 1/4" dia Portholes, I've used the Kristal Klear, but personally prefer the Micro-Glaze, see link below. I think it dries uicker also.

Search Results - Micro-Mark

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Ian/Ole thanks for your kind comments.

Cheers Derek

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Have been 'out of service' for part of last week as I was ordered to decorate the kitchen. Anyway the superstructure is about 95% complete have added the flood lights, lifebelts, ships bell, scuffed up the timber handrail at the wheelhouse and added some more dirt.

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Have started painting the hull exterior, will paint it initially as it left the shipyard, then rust-it-up. Cheers Derek

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[Guest]

magnificent work there,love the rust spots really effective

mobear

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Thanks Ole, I'm quite pleased with how its turned out so far.

Have now painted the base coat for the Hull. The Main Deck is as the Superstructure i.e. Lifecolor UA 097 'Sand'. The Forecastle Deck is Lifecolor LC 01 'Matt White'. The Hull above the waterline is Lifecolor UA 617 'Green', and the Hull below the waterline is Lifecolor UA 616 'Red'. I hand painted the Decks and above waterline, but airbrushed below the waterline to get some colour modulation. I varnished the Decks and above waterline with Lifecolor LC 77 'Satin Clear'.

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Now for the hard bit, the weathering. Colour photos of Trawlers in the 1940 -60s are very rare,but to give people who are following this build some idea, I have attached a link below of a Berwick built Trawler the 'Bervie Braes' A414, registered in Aberdeen; scroll down the link a little and you will find her and understand why the Trawlers of that era and earlier had the other nick name of 'Rust Bucket'.

Now whilst I want to try to give my Trawler reasonably heavy weathering, I think the Ref Photo would not be very attractive as a model, so will tone it down a bit.

Fishing Vessels

Not looking forward to this bit.

Will post some photos when the weathering is finished. Cheers Derek

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[Guest]

Just catching up on this Derek,the rust is really spot on. The link is really cool, see what ya mean about rust buckets WOW! Looking forward to seeing the next update!