OutcastJoel Posted September 22, 2020 Share Posted September 22, 2020 I was lucky enough to get this from my parents for my birthday. It is a stunning new kit from Atlantic Models (they are really on a roll at the minute), it is seriously tiny and my first ever waterline kit. This meant it was also my first ever attempt at a sea base. I wasn't especially ambitious with it but I am really happy with how it came out. 20200922_200034_Film2 by OutcastJoel, on Flickr 20200922_200137_Film2 by OutcastJoel, on Flickr 20200922_200201_Film2 by OutcastJoel, on Flickr 20200922_200355_Film2 by OutcastJoel, on Flickr 20200922_201119_Film2 by OutcastJoel, on Flickr 24 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alpha Juliet Posted September 22, 2020 Share Posted September 22, 2020 Excellent - you must either have very good eyesight or use a microscope! Well done! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
beefy66 Posted September 22, 2020 Share Posted September 22, 2020 You did the 700 scale I have the 350 one and that is tiny cracking job beefy 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OutcastJoel Posted September 22, 2020 Author Share Posted September 22, 2020 It is on the limit of what I can cope with! Luckily I also got a magnifier lamp, I do not know how I managed before! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Putty Animal Posted September 24, 2020 Share Posted September 24, 2020 Great job! I love the brush strokes to create the wake. You make it look so easy. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OutcastJoel Posted September 28, 2020 Author Share Posted September 28, 2020 On 24/09/2020 at 10:29, Putty Animal said: Great job! I love the brush strokes to create the wake. You make it look so easy. Thank you, to be honest I don't like the bit behind the hull, I think it is too flat to look right. The front bit was easier than expected, I simply stippled on layers of acrylic putty mixed with clear gloss gel which gave a decent result pretty easily. The front spray at the bow could do with more work, I saw a pretty cool technique involving toilet paper (of all things) soaked in gloss gel which I might try. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John_W Posted September 28, 2020 Share Posted September 28, 2020 That's got to be a giant lighter, no one has eyesight that good. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bugle07 Posted September 30, 2020 Share Posted September 30, 2020 That's a brilliant build, well done! Cotton wool for the bow wave is a possibility as well, toilet paper works well at this scale tho, just build it up as much as you like! Geoff 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chewbacca Posted October 4, 2020 Share Posted October 4, 2020 On 28/09/2020 at 11:03, OutcastJoel said: Thank you, to be honest I don't like the bit behind the hull, I think it is too flat to look right. The front bit was easier than expected, I simply stippled on layers of acrylic putty mixed with clear gloss gel which gave a decent result pretty easily. The front spray at the bow could do with more work, I saw a pretty cool technique involving toilet paper (of all things) soaked in gloss gel which I might try. Wakes and bow waves are so difficult to get right - I would argue that it is one of the hardest aspects of maritime modelling and if that's your first sea scape you've done a great job. Looking at the way GREY GOOSE is sitting in the water, it is representative of her moving at relatively slow speed (<10 kts or so). If she were going faster, as seen in this photo: you can see that the bow lifts up, the stern squats down and you start to get a "rooster tail" forming just behind the transom. These can get quite large - I've seen them rising to 20-odd feet high behind a Type 21 running at 28-30 kts. So noting that your model is moving slowly, I would say that your wake is about the right height - you certainly wouldn't want it any higher at that speed. I would observe, however, that it probably wouldn't spread out quite so much. This photo of GREY GOOSE in her later gas turbine powered configuration still shows quite a tight wake: But please don't take that as criticism. It's a great model of an under-represented class of ships which did sterling work. BZ. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OutcastJoel Posted October 7, 2020 Author Share Posted October 7, 2020 On 04/10/2020 at 08:54, Chewbacca said: Wakes and bow waves are so difficult to get right - I would argue that it is one of the hardest aspects of maritime modelling and if that's your first sea scape you've done a great job. Looking at the way GREY GOOSE is sitting in the water, it is representative of her moving at relatively slow speed (<10 kts or so). If she were going faster, as seen in this photo: you can see that the bow lifts up, the stern squats down and you start to get a "rooster tail" forming just behind the transom. These can get quite large - I've seen them rising to 20-odd feet high behind a Type 21 running at 28-30 kts. So noting that your model is moving slowly, I would say that your wake is about the right height - you certainly wouldn't want it any higher at that speed. I would observe, however, that it probably wouldn't spread out quite so much. This photo of GREY GOOSE in her later gas turbine powered configuration still shows quite a tight wake: But please don't take that as criticism. It's a great model of an under-represented class of ships which did sterling work. BZ. I must admit, in my head it was going >20kts, I hadn't appreciated how much the stern squats down in the water when it is going at high speed (despite having spent more time than I would like to admit looking at copies of that first photo). The lower photo of it in gas turbine trim is great, I don't think I had seen that before at all, it really does show how the wake sticks to the hull at lower speed (which I now appreciate the hull attitude and the back bit of the wake tie in with). I couldn't quite work out what was bugging me about the look and I think it is that the bow wave and (stern wave?) don't really look to be coming from the same vessel. Please always feel free to send comments my way, I learned much faster by reexamining the model having read your comments than I would otherwise have done, so hopefully that will help with the next one! I can't really take that much credit for the model, it is a simply stunning kit. As long as you have access to an airbrush and are comfortable with tweezers, there isn't a whole lot of scope to make a bad model! With the models coming out of Atlantic Models, Combrig, Flyhawk and others at the moment I can't help feeling like we are in a golden age of modelling. Those photos are excellent, thank you for sharing them 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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