a thinned wash of light brown over the wooden deck
then I painted the inside of the gunwales and the cannon carriages red
then I picked out the cannon barrels on the inside
and painted the muzzles and gunports black on the outside
the gratings were painted dark brown and the details picked out in white
they were coming along nicely so far,
the somewhat exaggerated details make painting all that much easier
then the upper outside hull got a stripe of yellow
while the lower half of the hull got charcoal grey
the hammocks along the railing got a shade of grungy brown-gray
at first I thought about leaving them at this stage,
but I decided that they needed more color
so one got an upper stripe of black while the remaining unit got a blue stripe
the masts were done up in yellow and black
but they look terribly naked without sails and at least some sort of rigging
one final bit was a wash of burnt umber over the inside
to make the deck planking pop and the pull everything together
I have to say that the models paint as easily as they assemble and look quite nice even given my limited skills. The lack of standing rigging in this scale will have to remedied as will the absence of sails, but that is work for another day.
Looks great! I like the looks of BS but the models look too fiddly for my skill levels.
ReplyDeleteHaving built both plastic and metal kits I would say that they are a bit easier due to the precise fit of the parts and the quickness of the plastic cement as opposed to superglue. The main problem to my mind is the odd scale......
DeleteLooking good...I've picked up some Brigs and a Frigate from the magazinea and am about to have a go...the rigging scares me a bit!!
ReplyDeleteFor rigging I think that I'm going to use stretched sprue; none of the fuzziness of thread and you can glue it with superglue so there is no knot tying either
ReplyDeleteNicely painted. I think these that came with the mag are without sails but if you bought a box sails are included?
ReplyDeleteI like the cotton thread stiffened with glue method for rigging. The threads don’t fray.