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Fellow Maritime Modelers and "Dreadnaught Dudes" (as it were)
After a long slog with COVID, job situations, and not making time for modeling, I can happily say for the last few months that I am back. It was a tough slog, but I found my mental (and physical) health have improved a ton from spending the time building the Missouri. We lost my father-in-law two years ago (he lived with us for 12 years and had the long slide into Alzheimer's), and we lost a few friends and relatives to COVID, same as many of you may have. To these we lost, we drink to their memory.In fact, I have two orders from two museums to finish the 1:200 kit for them (with all the Pontos stuff and brass).
I will take some picks of the "assembly line", now that I have three BB63's to build (I thought it would be easier to have an "assembly line" style, doing the same stage of development three times, then moving on). If you have a different view of this, I'd love to hear it. One of the BB63's (ash-colored deck) will be for our home, and the other two will be for the 80th anniversary of the surrender in Tokyo (COVID messed with the celebrations, so I have a bit more time, now September 2025) being celebrated at these two museums (they don't want me to name them).
Question/Guidance: The historians at one museum have insisted that the paint scheme for the Missouri will have the dark blue/green colors on the deck as were seen in September of 1945. No problem there, and I have the official US Naval color code, and use the Colourcoat paints to good effect and realism. I have two sets of the Pontos wooden decks (already know about the glue problem), but the color seems to not be a match for the 5-N Navy Blue US-08 from Colourcoats. Did anyone figure out what to do there? I have the right US-08 on the hull, but the deck color is more a dark green from Pontos. Afraid the historians may not like it if it's different.
So, light sanding to rough up the wooden deck, and then a few ultra light coats of the Colourcoats US-08 to match the hull color? Or no sanding at all--just painting the deck the US-08? I hate losing the etching marks form the wood, but I am not sure what to do? I think the sanding will cause the paint to "pool" at the corners of pieces, and so I am thinking about not sanding it that much.
Anyone facing this problem?
Anyway, still standing over the shoulders of the great model making craftsmen in this group, trying to learn, and always appreciating the help. It's good to be back.
Rick