HMS VICTORY PART FINISHED

[Guest]

Great news jim, tip, use a cocktail stick for fine detail, I use them all the time, it's what I'm using on the Wasa, I guarantee the detail on the Wasa is finer than anything on the victory, dip the cocktail stick in the very edge of the paint on the tin lid (after you've given the tin a good shake ) don't dip it in the paint tin its self as you can't control how much paint you can get on the stick, the idea is to get a small amount of paint on the tip then apply to where you want it, it takes a bit of practice but once you've mastered it you won't use any other method. I am so pleased you are starting this one again.

[james pithouse]

here is the new part sorry but this is as good as i could get it in focus on the detail[ATTACH]121805.IPB[/ATTACH]

[Guest]

Paint the whole thing yellow, then pick out the detail in black (always do the lightest colour first you will never cover black with yellow it is the weakest pigment) incidentally I think you would get a better impression of glass using gloss black rather than blue for the windows if you look into a unlighted house window the window looks black the only colour is the reflection from outside which the gloss black will give you.

[james pithouse]

thanks ken will do that

[james pithouse]

ps ken mums birthday soon coming down she's now a focal almost HA! HA!

[Guest]

I think, jim you meant fossil not focal, trouble is we're going through a very busy patch.

[james pithouse]

Hi Ken. Cocktail sticks do not work for me but doing in between the windows it's fine as the gap is wider, but to do between the bottom off the windows it's not small enough the detail is so fine it blobs out over every thing else, and not where i want it to go when i only touch the black paint with the point of the cocktail stick and paint the part i want to paint. :P

[james pithouse]

just gluing the back on to the rest off the ship can not be bothered to paint the details to fine should of not got mum to buy this size ship about 3-4 years ago as a early Christmas / birthday present being 1/225 scale it's a joke to paint that small hurts my eyes to concentrate on it