boatman's 1/72 HMS Tiger C20 build

[Jim R]

Hi Chris
Great to this this wonderful build at the painting stage. Masking is a necessary evil - takes so much time but has to be done carefully. With such a lot to paint do you use aerosols?

When I saw all the superstructure and fittings laid out it made it clear how much skill and time has gone into this superb build.

Totally agree.
Jim

[boatman]

Hi Chris
Great to this this wonderful build at the painting stage. Masking is a necessary evil - takes so much time but has to be done carefully. With such a lot to paint do you use aerosols?

Totally agree.
Jim

HI Jim yea maskin is a nessasary evil to do isnt it an yes does take a fair amount of time as with this build fitted with eletronics they dont go very well with paint all over them or come to that in them through a small hole or something an yes Jim i use the really big aerosols 500 ml for the primer

as all the bits have got to be sprayed twice in primer the first spray is to show any crack or holes that are too small to notice when its still in the plasti card state an then when most of them are filled over then its out to the shed to respray the item in a top coat of primer an then if it passes my expectations then all the items will be sprayed by 150 ml humbroll matt light grey no. 64 an im afraid there are goin to be some cracks that i cant fill

as these will be the parts that are just screwed down to be removeable so i can get inside to service the models two radar motors an all the shafts an gears or in the case of the big hangar bay the roof must come off in case of anything comin adrift in there as remember this will be in the car bumppin up an down on our very rough roads an there will be hopefully 3 x 1/72 seaking helo's in side the hangar but on this ship model there will be maybe up to 70% of the items that will all be able to be taken off in case of damage as this is a working model that will go in harms way on the pond hope that answers your questions Jim an cheers for takein an intrest in this model
ATB chris

[boatman]

HI Peeps well im now at the
painting stage of tiger S/S an its not very good a bit stripey the deck green is but i'll leave it an say its wheathering as the paint will go more uniform when its a few wks old an get some dust on it an i cant face givinen it all a second coat as it stinks to high heaven an gives me a head acke even with a mask an gogles on as the bits are pretty big an ive got to paint all the main deck yet so still loads to paint (urg) so all you exspert figer painters look away now lol
any way i started off with a small part of the s/s to see how i get on an that tamyia maskin tape is brilliant but there is still a lot of small touchin up to do on the green deck paint an grey with a small brush later

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an its bein painted with a hairy stick an looks a bit rough but hopefully it will look better later when all the stages of s/s have been put togeather

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an done an not brilliant but im a rotten painter as im no picaso lol

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an the paint im usein is mainly for R/C aircraft as its a very hard wearing paint to stick bein out in the wet wheather as if i sail in rough wheather the water somtimes splashes up onto the deck as the pond has i think got proper salty seawater in

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an here the hangar bay now masked up an ready to paint

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an done now just waiting for paint to dry so i can remove the maskin tape

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an tape removed like i said im no picaso lol an there are a more things got to be put on the top so will break up the painted surface

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an ive also painted the main S/S decks an it will look a lot better when its all put together

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an all main S/S now togeather but not the bridges as ive still got more work to do on them before i can spray them an paint them an to its just passable but only just

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starboard side

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flat edge on on shot