Post by Gordon Ferguson on Dec 27, 2012 3:08:11 GMT -5
As I have to do another piece on "grass" decided I would do a salt marsh .......... but rather than just an experimental piece decided I would try a make a model out of it.
So dug out an old resin lifeboat I had and thought we will go for the long abandoned boat semi submerged in the marsh mud & grass .
Not going to bore you with the rebuild process, lets say the origonal resin casting took a lot of sanding and refining !
As you may notice from the above the resin casting was fairly typical of these "home produced" things variable wall thickness, shell distorted etc, etc ... but hopefully most could either be corrected, covered in rust or justified by it being an old boat.
One of my hopes for this piece was that it would give a me a chance to continue to practice paint techniques ........... so the following is not meant as an SBS but more to show the steps I took and hope that the more experienced painters out there might take the time to suggest alternatives or a different order to do things
Primed and the base coat of various Tamiya colours put on to prove a tough base coat which was finished of with a spray of dull-coat
Because my reference pictures showed that boats in these situations showed serious rusting, delamination and bubbling of the metal I thought I would add to the texture by applying some fine sand around the main rust area which was fixed in place with AK Sand & gravel fixer ...... in retrospect was my usual heavy handed way in doing this and had to after it was all dry adjust the edges to soften the transition edges
As you can see did the same inside the boat as I intended the bottom of it to be silted up. At this tage I also used rust pigments to further soften the edges between the heavy rust and the rest or remaing part of the hull
I then sprayed various shades of AK rust colours over the textured hull , trying to keep the darker shades towards the bottom of the hull on the out side and using lighter colours to produce a tidemark inside the hull slighter above where I hoped to silt it up ... and where possibly we will have some grass growing
At this stage I sealed all of this with dull-coat and the lightly misted 2 or 3 coats of hairspray ........ I have tried the AK chipping fluids but I seem to on my own here as I have struggled with these products hence reverting to hairspray
This was then followed by a light grey undercoat , another coat of hairspray and then a topcoat of off white .
This was then chipped/rubbed off via usual route of water and brushes etc. All of the above steps from starting with the hairspray were done in small separate sections
Then some MIG rust pigments were blended in around main areas of rust .
Have to say at this stage I felt the thing was getting away from me so in an effort to try and bring it back I added toned in some areas with rust oil washes and added some Life-colour white Oxide as a mapping(?) shade on top of the off white top coat
So thats about as far as I got, one side of the hull sort of done and the inside started. I do feel the thing is still slightly out of control and I need to add some definition and a degree of refinement to it but not sure how. was thinking of some pin washes for the definition but not sure I do those on a matt/pigment surface.... and if I seal it I know from previous experience i will loose whatever it is I have achieved so far ?
The thing will get more colour and texture from various weather wood pieces I have to add as well a rudder and probably a wood or rope fender.
So any thought,ideas or pointers to get me back on track from you paint experts out there would be appreciated
So dug out an old resin lifeboat I had and thought we will go for the long abandoned boat semi submerged in the marsh mud & grass .
Not going to bore you with the rebuild process, lets say the origonal resin casting took a lot of sanding and refining !
As you may notice from the above the resin casting was fairly typical of these "home produced" things variable wall thickness, shell distorted etc, etc ... but hopefully most could either be corrected, covered in rust or justified by it being an old boat.
One of my hopes for this piece was that it would give a me a chance to continue to practice paint techniques ........... so the following is not meant as an SBS but more to show the steps I took and hope that the more experienced painters out there might take the time to suggest alternatives or a different order to do things
Primed and the base coat of various Tamiya colours put on to prove a tough base coat which was finished of with a spray of dull-coat
Because my reference pictures showed that boats in these situations showed serious rusting, delamination and bubbling of the metal I thought I would add to the texture by applying some fine sand around the main rust area which was fixed in place with AK Sand & gravel fixer ...... in retrospect was my usual heavy handed way in doing this and had to after it was all dry adjust the edges to soften the transition edges
As you can see did the same inside the boat as I intended the bottom of it to be silted up. At this tage I also used rust pigments to further soften the edges between the heavy rust and the rest or remaing part of the hull
I then sprayed various shades of AK rust colours over the textured hull , trying to keep the darker shades towards the bottom of the hull on the out side and using lighter colours to produce a tidemark inside the hull slighter above where I hoped to silt it up ... and where possibly we will have some grass growing
At this stage I sealed all of this with dull-coat and the lightly misted 2 or 3 coats of hairspray ........ I have tried the AK chipping fluids but I seem to on my own here as I have struggled with these products hence reverting to hairspray
This was then followed by a light grey undercoat , another coat of hairspray and then a topcoat of off white .
This was then chipped/rubbed off via usual route of water and brushes etc. All of the above steps from starting with the hairspray were done in small separate sections
Then some MIG rust pigments were blended in around main areas of rust .
Have to say at this stage I felt the thing was getting away from me so in an effort to try and bring it back I added toned in some areas with rust oil washes and added some Life-colour white Oxide as a mapping(?) shade on top of the off white top coat
So thats about as far as I got, one side of the hull sort of done and the inside started. I do feel the thing is still slightly out of control and I need to add some definition and a degree of refinement to it but not sure how. was thinking of some pin washes for the definition but not sure I do those on a matt/pigment surface.... and if I seal it I know from previous experience i will loose whatever it is I have achieved so far ?
The thing will get more colour and texture from various weather wood pieces I have to add as well a rudder and probably a wood or rope fender.
So any thought,ideas or pointers to get me back on track from you paint experts out there would be appreciated
