New Bedford Whaler...circa 1875. *The Harbour*

[Ian M]

The alterations you have made are brilliant.


Watching n waiting.

[spanner570]

Thanks Ian, I managed to get over my cock up. so not so bad and I'm glad you approve.


I've painted some of the figures using a cocktail stick. This is probably all I'm doing for this. I'll be on it for ever otherwise.....






I've also done some more general bits and bobs to fill the spaces - more later.


Cheers,


Ron

[takeslousyphotos]

This is looking really good Ron. I like it............

[Guest]

Should look good with the figure's dotted about.

[spanner570]

Thanks Peter San and Ralph for your positive comments.


I've finished the quayside, so now I'm concentrating on the water. The previous coats of acrylic served as bit of a sealer for the polystyrene 'water'. Then, after coating the painted polystyrene with diluted PVA, I spread a slurry of polyfilla all over and moulded small waves, made the sea a bit more lively by the stone breakwater and generally messed about with the surface.


A second coat of diluted PVA was applied. Now that's dry, I am building up the colours using cheap acrylics in various shades of blue and green -wet on wet.


Once I'm happy with the sea colours, I will get out the silicone gun and add some detail.


Here are the first stage pictures. The colours are a bit loud, sorry.


See the quayside ground? Due to the very small scale, I wanted a very fine something to sprinkle on the base.....We have a dog and she is fed that dry mix pellet stuff you get in a big bag. We came to the end of the bag the other day and as I tipped the dross out, I noticed this very fine beige/brown 'dust' at the bottom of the bag....Bingo, this is what you see here...perfect scale!


The filla wavelets ready for further treatment and the blues....






A couple of general views.










Next up, more work on the sea colours and adding the silicone.


Cheers,


Ron

[Guest]

I'm really enjoying this build Ron.


It's looking good the water.

[Guest]

Looking good Mr Moderator Sir. Those painted figures are first class. Derek

[spanner570]

Thanks chaps...nearly finished.


'Bout time, I hear the cry!


I've made some small waves and splashes using silicone. I kept adding coats of paint to the sea until I got it something like, then gave the whole thing a coat of varnish to shine it up a bit...With using different shades of blue, a sort of different depth to the sea is achieved.


I wanted the sea smooth in the actual harbour area, so I angled the waves to hit the breakwater and not wash in to where the ship lay, which would have made me have to do ripples and the like........Cunning move what?


Here are a couple of pictures of the finished breakwater.










Once all this is dry, I can finally plonk the whaler into it's hole and make up some mooring lines and odds and sods - then that's it.


Cheers,


Ron

[Guest]

Now the water looks alive.

[Guest]

This is superb work young Ron.


Scott

[spanner570]

Thanks again boys.


I've finally finished this, so I'll post it up in 'Completed' asap..


Thanks to everyone who helped me along the way. I don't think I've hacked and messed about with a model as much as this one!


I hope you like the end result....


Ron