1/35th FSBR - Fire Support Boat, Riverine

[Old Wombat]

Thanks, gents!

[Old Wombat]

I'm having to repaint the turrets & their weapons as I tried to cheat & used Tamiya rattle-can OD. After shaking the can for over 5 minutes the initial spray had some red-brown colour sitting on the surface (can was over 3 years old). As it was, not too bad, I could use it as weathering/dust but after I sprayed Tamiya Flat Clear over it almost the whole thing went red-brown!

So, I've sprayed a thin coat of Tamiya White Primer over everything & will be getting out the airbrush next weekend & spraying them with Mig acrylic US Olive Drab Post WW2 (FS24087), as was my original plan.

In case you haven't figure it, it's at about this stage that I have to start fighting my impatience to get the job done (which is why my finishes suffer). Not because I don't like painting & weathering, I actually do, but because I get impatient to see the finished product sitting in front of me.

[Captain Canada]

Kinda like a golfer watching the ball hit the green halfway through his swing ?

[Old Wombat]

Progress has all but stopped on this due to cold, wet weather not being conducive to painting.

However, I'm about to do some more over the next couple of days.

A quick question for ideas ... or, more accurately, the final decision between ideas.

I am tossing up between 3 options for the waterline & below;

Opt. 1 - all Black.

Opt. 2 - all Hull Red

Opt. 3 - Hull Red with a Black plimsol line at the top (4" full-size = 3mm in scale)


Just call out your preferences, I wont do a poll, & I need them by tomorrow morning at the latest (it's 0845hrs, Tuesday 30 June, here, now).


Thanks guys!

[Captain Canada]

Option 3 for me. But I could be swayed to option 2. Red is a must for me, in that era.

[kerick]

Option 3 for me. But I could be swayed to option 2. Red is a must for me, in that era.

Ditto on option 3.

[Old Wombat]

Thanks, guys!

Still about 14 hours left but, so far, across 2 site we have 2 votes for Opt.3 ... ... That's it? 

Guess I'll have to wait & see what happens overnight.

[Old Wombat]

OK, decision made early - Opt. 3 it is!

Already masked up to begin this tomorrow morning, so I'm not changing my mind.

[Old Wombat]

Primary hull colour down. Didn't go with pure Hull Red, went a 1:1 mix of XF-9 Hull Red & XF-7 Flat Red (Tamiya colours).

Looks good, even if I do say so myself.

[zenrat]

FWIW I would have voted 3.

[Old Wombat]

OK, here are a few quick pic's of what happened today.

Red hull, black plimsol line, paint came away, I liked the look & I worked with it.

I'll paint over some of the stripped areas but some will get rust streaks 1st, while other bits will stay as is & get less developed rusting. This way I end up with old scrapes painted over & new scrapes not yet dealt with. Makes it look like a working boat.

There are, also, some faults with my painting (unpainted bits between the red & the black) which I'll fix up one way or another.

I'll try to take better pic's later.


Enjoy!










Hand-painted dials, controls & radar screen.

[zenrat]

Very good.  The flakey paint looks great.

[Old Wombat]

Thanks, mate!

[DogfighterZen]

Very good.  The flakey paint looks great.

Second that! 

[Old Wombat]

Thanks, DfZ!




PS: Jon CF brought to my attention that my term "Plimsoll" line is incorrect & the black line is, in fact, the "boot" line, thereby correcting a mis-undertanding I've had for many, many years.