VicCina  | 18 Aug 2015 11:28 a.m. PST |
A blog post on my attempts to put this particular model together.
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| DinOfBattle2 | 18 Aug 2015 12:31 p.m. PST |
Nice work, especially with the lack of instructions in the kit. Can't believe a company would sell you something like that without instructions. May I suggest a light wash to pull out the details? I bet that would really make the model pop! Good job Vic.
Eric |
 Yellow Admiral | 18 Aug 2015 2:00 p.m. PST |
Excellent post! I've been wanting to see one of these done up. It's a nicer model than the Houston's 1/1000 version, though at just over 8" long, I don't know how to game with it… She needs a national flag. :-) - Ix |
| VicCina | 18 Aug 2015 3:19 p.m. PST |
Just haven't gotten around to putting the flag on it. |
| Rogues1 | 18 Aug 2015 3:19 p.m. PST |
I feel your pain but on a larger scale. Our gaming group is in the Philadelphia area and we had the tremendous honor/pleasure of hosting a gaming day (now an Annual event) on the USS Olympia. So we decided to of course do the Battle of Manila Bay using these same ships (though they don't have all of the ships that were there and we had to use proxies in some cases). I had to put together and paint 20 of these ships with no directions (and in some cases no pictures) for both sides in something like 4 weeks. I asked Joel G. from OG Shipyard for help, but he was out of pocket (BTW he is generally really helpful with this stuff but admitted he didn't have directions for any of the ships). I finally gave up on trying to figure out how to mount the davits for the lifeboats for most of the ships (there were no holes to drill out – nothing marked) and it was getting in the way of most of the masts and upper deck guns and structures. On the Olympia there are about 20 small guns around the main deck that were just thin metal pieces that I had to drill out and glue in place – a lot of guessing there but at least the ship is still around. Overall they turned out ok and it was great to see them being used on the Olympia on the anniversary of the battle with the re-enactors standing over a chart from the time period, but I will not volunteer for that task again. Nice scale for these class of ships for the types of engagements they did, but I am not sure I would recommend them for the faint of heart (super glue and a small drill bit with a lot of patience is required). I will see if I can post a picture of the final ships. I think you did an excellent job with your ship. |
| VicCina | 18 Aug 2015 6:11 p.m. PST |
Thank you! I would love to see pictures of that event and of the models. I think I would have given up considering the frustration this one gave me. |
MrsMiniatureships  | 19 Aug 2015 10:46 a.m. PST |
We are hoping to start getting instruction sheets done for the ships. We have a very kind customer who has been taking pictures of the kits all laid out and then pictures of them put together and sending them to me. I had hoped to start getting these sheets done but life challenges have interrupted my good intentions. There are only so many hours in a day. I will make sure to make announcements as I start getting these done. MrsMiniatureships |
| VicCina | 19 Aug 2015 1:28 p.m. PST |
Thank you for responding. It's nice to hear that instructions will be placed with the models in the future. It will help a lot. They are nice models once they are built and painted. |
| Yellow Admiral | 21 Aug 2015 10:24 a.m. PST |
May I suggest a light wash to pull out the details? I bet that would really make the model pop! I think you're right – check out the photos in this blog post (just posted on TMP today). These models really come alive with shading, rigging, and smoke. The photos on the Old Glory web site of bare lead and resin don't do them any justice. They look amazing when fully finished. So…. hard… to…. resist…! Having said that, I shudder to think how much work is behind those photos. Oof. - Ix |
| VicCina | 22 Aug 2015 9:56 p.m. PST |
They look amazing! Interestingly enough I tried to do a wash on the deck but it ended up looking like crap, so I painted over it. |
| Yellow Admiral | 23 Aug 2015 2:01 p.m. PST |
LOL! Been there, done that… :-) I've never found any particular wash color to be universally , I typically spend one or more entire painting sessions just to find the right combination of base color and wash color to make something come out right. I have a great wash technique for warship decks, but I have to start the research project over every time I paint a new color of vertical ships' surfaces, so most of the time, I do vertical surfaces with drybrushing instead. - Ix |
