The Ship Model Forum

Thanks, Eberhard; I agree the bronze color is a tad light, later weathering maybe will improve the appearance.

A small update, borrowed daughter's Legos to make a jig for marking the flotation line; this step was significant for me because I consider it something archetypal of ship modeling; sorry for being so dramatic, but it's my first ship and I'm very excited.

That's brilliant. I've used stacked playing cards and Post-It notes before to get a custom height gauge result like that, but never thought of LEGO.

Glad to see you making progress on this. I printed the same model out in 1/96th scale and have all of the parts on my bench at work, but got distracted and haven't touched it. Your posts are inspiring me to maybe glue some things together.

Thank you, Devin; hopefully, we can enjoy seeing your build soon.

The painting phase is complete; the ribbing effect looks nice under the satin black, but the overall texture wasn't what I intended in the beginning; the color is a mix of black and a dash of desert yellow from Tamiya.





Taking pictures of this high-contrast subject isn't easy for me; I had to read the camera's manual to make the best of it.

I normally post-process such subjects in Adobe Photoshop LE by lighting up the shadows, dimming the highlights and then increasing the contrast. That flattens the overall contrast between shadows and highlights. It also helps to photograph the object in front of a medium-grey background and use a more diffuse illumination.

Thanks for the advice, Eberhard; I will try that when I get my hands at picture editing software, for the moment the gray background seems to work much better as you said.

I started the weathering process based on ship pictures as a reference; I'm not familiar with the techniques of rust and chipping in ships, so I tried to use common sense to determine where to apply the effects, the area where the chain would cuff against the side of the deck for example.



Chips and rust made with Vallejo acrylics.

well done--that is looking very good !

and the height gauge is very smart--I shall go and raid my daughters lego-boxes
Jim Baumann

Superb!

I've missed this topic since 2024, I can't explain why...

Thank you, Jim, Pascal

These past days, I have rushed to finish this model for a local contest, so I didn't have the chance to take pics of the progress; anyway, here are some pictures of the somewhat finished Holland.





The rest of the weathering was done using Panel Liner and Oilbrushers from AMMO before sealing it with Tamiya matt varnish.







A light and shiny propeller doesn't match the overall look of the ship, so I tried and failed to add some weathering using oils and acrylic paint; finally, I added a light misty coat of Tamiya brown to try to emulate worn bronze.





I was unable to print the chain included with the model successfully, so I designed my own and printed it; the resin I used was translucent at this scale, so it was darkened slightly with a panel liner wash. I realized later that I had inserted the chain backward through the ring.





The model was mounted on a piece of wood, a leftover from another project; I got another nice piece of wood intended for this model, but didn't have the time to prepare it. I'll do it in the near future, along with a properly installed chain.

I liked this project a lot and plan to make more ship models, so I'll appreciate any comments, critiques, and advice that help me get better at this.

Thank you to all who followed and helped me during this project.

Carlos

Nice and somewhat unusal project indeed - and nice rendering

That turned out wonderful. I really like the paint and weathering. Nice work!

Very nice weathering indeed!

Very nice model

Thank you, Eberhard, Devin, Marijn and Pascal, for your nice and encouraging words.

Regards

Carlos