"Painting Russo-Japanese in 1/6000" Topic
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alan L | 03 Feb 2016 11:55 a.m. PST |
I would welcome tips on painting the Hallmark models in this scale. I am not into super-detailing and just want models that look good on the table. Alan |
Bozkashi Jones | 03 Feb 2016 12:57 p.m. PST |
Alan I'm a convert to 1:6k – they are such lovely castings that they pretty much paint themselves. Here's a link to my latest batch: TMP link
There's certainly nothing clever in what I do – the steps I take are: 1) Remove the bases on DDs/TBDs 2) Using a fine needle file clean off any flash 3) Wash castings in warm soapy water 4) Fix to bases – I use 3mm thick bases from Warbases which are very cleanly cut. This makes the tiny models a heck of a lot easier to handle 5) Spray the models with Halford's grey spray primer 6) When dry, apply a wash of darker grey 7) When dry, dry-brush with a paler grey 8) Paint decks a suitable pale wood colour 9) Paint base blue (I use dark Prussian blue) 10) Paint the wake area in pale blue 11) Add the wake in white (and pick out the ship's boats at the same time) – I use one stroke down each side of the ship with a fine brush and then dry-brush the wake behind the ship 12) Varnish – gloss for the sea Hallmark ships come with bases – either separate for cruisers or larger or cast on for DDs/TBDs. I always use my own bases as they are just easier to handle, but that's just my preference. Best wishes, Nick |
McKinstry | 03 Feb 2016 1:11 p.m. PST |
Funny thing. I just finished a month long project to paint both fleets in 1/6000. PM me an email address and I send some pictures and you can decide if you like them I can certainly tell you what paints I used and basing materials. |
ColCampbell | 03 Feb 2016 1:13 p.m. PST |
Here is a very good painting guide for the Japanese and Russian fleets. link The Japanese are fairly easy to do. The Russians are little more difficult because each of the three forces – Port Arthur, Vladivostok, and Baltic Fleet had different pain schemes. The WTJ link lays all of that out. My fleets are 1:2400: link Jim |
Yellow Admiral | 03 Feb 2016 2:36 p.m. PST |
Nick's painting technique is pretty much what I do too, except I paint the large ships and their bases separately before gluing them together. The castings are tiny but have nicely raised details, so a mid- to high-contrast drybrushing technique makes them look really nice in a hurry. I found I could paint an entire national navy in about a week of crafting time. Like others I was never too keen on the standard Figurehead bases they're too small to be useful and not magnetic. However, rather than painfully remove the DDs and TBDs from the cast-on bases, I mount the Figurehead bases on pre-cut 1/2" wide steel bases (like these currently sold by Monday Knight Productions), then build up around them with acrylic gel medium and blend in the surface with wave texture. This gives me a magnetic base I can write the ship name on and avoids the whole problem of trying to cut and grind a tiny ship off of a tiny base. Before applying the gel medium, I glue down a strip of 1/8" x .010 styrene along left side of the base to give me a wave-free flat surface to write on. Here are a couple temporary links to photos of the finished product: The WWI Austro-Hungarian fleet steaming to battle:
A way-too-closeup view of the finished HMS Dreadnought:
You can see how the textured gel medium blends seamlessly with the stock Figurehead base – the cast base isn't even visible anymore, but it's in there. The main reason to keep it is to provide a flat mating surface to glue the ship model onto that is just the right size and shape for each particular vessel. This also helps me figure out where to paint the wakes before the vessel is glued down. These photo links will break soon (Amazon doesn't provide permanent links for embedding photos in web pages, the bastards), but once I find a photo service that doesn't totally suck I'll have these and other photos of my 1:6000 scale ships on the Internet in the GQ2 section of the Yellow Admiralty web site. - Ix |
Father Grigori | 10 Feb 2016 1:06 a.m. PST |
You can get good results with just a light to medium grey undercoat, and a thin black wash over the top. It picks out the detail nicely, and you just drybrush and paint those points. I'm no painter, but it works fine for me. |
Wilf12358 | 10 Feb 2016 6:19 a.m. PST |
I'm painting up the WW1 Royal Navy Jutland pack at the moment. I'm using the moulded bases as the sea texture appeals but removed the end tabs. So far I've followed Thomo's advice: link Used a PVA wood glue to attach ship & base to a lollipop stick. Then prepare, wash, and prime with Vallejo surface primer. Base coat the ship & base, then apply a wash, dry brush then detailing. So far, so good! Join together with superglue then a matt spray varnish. Haven't finalised on bases yet (to accomodate thick fingers!) but likely one per capital or escort ship and base DDs & TBDs by flotilla. Cheers, Wilf |
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