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Some excellent masking and really fine results, my friend @gblair! You are right, some intentional extra contrast might not be too wrong in modeling.
Those tone differences do look good to me, George @gblair Nice painting.
Thanks, John (@johnb) and Spiros (@fiveten). Not a lot of model to judge colors yet, but experiments with colors will continue.
I didn't get much done today. I wanted to get the foundation for the forward enclosed 5" turret which was added to the APD. As I was working on that and comparing things to the plans I had, I noticed that they slightly changed the arrangement of the shielding on the lower part of the bridge structure. It would have been a lot easier to have taken care of this before I glued things together and painted things, but it will get done. Cheers everyone.
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Good that you corrected the shielding, my friend @gblair!
A good start made with the 5" turret base, George @gblair
Thanks, Spiros (@fiveten) and John (@johnb). It seems like I find the stuff I need to change after I have already committed to glue.
I noticed a few things that needed to be changed on the lower bridge assembly, so I decided to strip the paint and take care of the problems. A quick dunk in some alcohol removed the paint. I discovered that the large gun tub has a slightly different configuration than the model. I checked some of the photos I had and I found a couple of different configurations on the real ships, including the one I currently had. Cool. That's done. I added floater nets to the forward part of the gun tub, and then started building the small platform for the 20mm gun director.
There is a derrick on the rear part of the troop compartment used to move equipment and supplies into the LCVPs for transfer ashore. I designed a simple derrick in Tinkercad to see if it might work. They printed fine, so I will clean up the design and add all the need structure. The cool thing is that the 3D printer is capable of printing a part in much finer detail than I could manage.
To be continued tomorrow. Cheers.
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This is really super job, my friend @gblair! Nice corrections and add-ons. Must be really satisfying to add all these details!
Thanks, Spiros (@fiveten). I always like photos of detailed ships that others have made. All I need to do is figure out how to do it.
Nicely performed corrections, George @gblair Everything looks exactly as the drawings.
All of these recent changes look excellent George (@gblair). So many small details to watch out for. Those 3D printed Bofors look extremely delicate and detailed. I believe I have something similar with my Flyhawk detail set, but if not, I may invest in a set of what you found. However, I am a long ways away from adding any of that detail.
Hi Carl (@clipper): I am in awe of the fineness of the detail in the Twin 40s. I also got their single 20mm and enclosed 5" gun. I opened their container to plan their painting, but after I soaked in how finely printed they are, it turned into trying to figure out how to remove their supports without damaging the parts. It is sort of scary. I think a layer of paint will probably double their thickness.
Hi John (@johnb). Lots of detail to soak in. Easy to miss stuff.
No work on the APD today. I reached a milestone on my other project, so I was dealing with that. I have been printing the hull sections for a 1/48 scale radio control Flower Class corvette. My wife got me the printer files for Christmas, and I have been printing the hull sections slowly since then. The hull will be over 1.5 meters in length, and each of the hull sections take between 30 and 48 hours to print, not to mention a bunch of resin filament. Today was a big milestone because I got the last hull section printed. Now it is on to the deck and superstructure.
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