bwross11 wrote:Well, all of Carl's updates on his projects gave me a little incentive to do some more work on my Cook Inlet. I'm torn between between detailing and painting; so I'm doing a little of both.
The ship will be depicted in a Ms. 33 paint and I started at the bow as this is the easier part of the scheme.
On the detail side; I have added the 20mm and sky lookouts aft, and started detailing the crane, and lately a kerosene tank that was located on the aft end of the main deck house. Also, the deck edge on the 01 level had a unique double rounded feature that I found to be intriguing; so I went after it, I'll leave it for you to decide how well I pulled it off.
Hope you enjoy; there will be more to come, hopefully sooner rather than later,
Although probably difficult to see, here, I have added a black wash to highlight the details and to create more depth to the details and applied a rusty weathered look to the decks.
I have added a torpedo trolley and figures and rails to the starboard main deck.......
I've been working on the weapons, lately. I assembled two of four Twin 40mm Bofors (L'Arsenal), black washed the fore and aft 5" guns (Corsair Armada and L'Arsenal)and installed canvas covers over the 40mm ammo racks.
bwross11 wrote:Well, all of Carl's updates on his projects gave me a little incentive to do some more work on my Cook Inlet. I'm torn between between detailing and painting; so I'm doing a little of both.
The ship will be depicted in a Ms. 33 paint and I started at the bow as this is the easier part of the scheme.
On the detail side; I have added the 20mm and sky lookouts aft, and started detailing the crane, and lately a kerosene tank that was located on the aft end of the main deck house. Also, the deck edge on the 01 level had a unique double rounded feature that I found to be intriguing; so I went after it, I'll leave it for you to decide how well I pulled it off.
Hope you enjoy; there will be more to come, hopefully sooner rather than later,
Good modeling all,
Bruce
Beautiful work Bruce, really first class. Great detail, really sharp! Were you not working on a USS Stevens with a catapult some time ago? Is that what I spy in the background of the first pic?
"It is best to remain silent and let others assume you are dumb than to speak up and remove all doubt"
Avery Boyer wrote:Beautiful work Bruce, really first class. Great detail, really sharp! Were you not working on a USS Stevens with a catapult some time ago? Is that what I spy in the background of the first pic?
Hi Avery,
Thanks for the comments on the Cook Inlet. I am still working on the USS Stevens, just not nearly as fast! I got to the point that I really needed to model the crane and associated machinary and there just wasn't any info to be had; being a detail fanatic I just couldn't bring myself to "fake" the assemblies so work stopped and I took up the Cook Inlet while I researched the aircraft equipment. Well a few months ago an internet friend found some information and I've been building CAD models of the crane to build from. Actually have already started the turntable of the kingpost.
thanks for noticing.
Bruce
Bruce
OSC USN-Ret
Currently on the building ways:
1/144 USS Stevens DD-479
1/144 USS Cook Inlet AVP-36
1/144 USS Walke DD-416
1/144 USS Blue DD-387
1/144 USS Preble DDG-46
This was my first plan for my diorama water base, Tamiya Ocean Effect Plate (11.5" x 16.5"), but I think that I might use the base that I had planned for a harbor diorama and the Plastruct "agitated water" sheet (13" x 23").
The wood base is already prepared and I have a plexiglass already custom made to slide into the routered groove.
I like the look of the safety net railings. This is my first time with these. The hard part is keeping the nets from filling up with paint. I airbrushed them with Navy Gloss Gray and after the bending and cutting process some brass showed through, so I had to apply a thinned coat of the paint to them, as well as a little dry brushing. The top rails are Grimey Black.
They seem to bend differently between the stanchions than the regular PE railings, but maybe that's just the fineness of the L'arsenal rails. I like them, none-the-less. I still have to insert a couple of stanchions at a couple of the bends.
Timmy,
I have re-painted the Plastruct "agitated water" base. I've gotten rid of most of the green and applied more Future to it.
I've come to the conclusion that I don't like working with safety net railings, but here they are along with a couple of inclined ladders aft of the 5" gun.
These canvas covered railings were more troublesome than others that I have done.
