Message from @Goodwood of Dank™
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It goes a long way to make the surfaces look like metal and not plastic
Currently working on this problem child, background toaster for scale
Can't worry about weathering if the model is too small to weather <:mmh:539854862746255395>
Dry brush it?
I might, but effort/skill
if done correctly you can raise details out from the ship
Yeah
I need to make some black enamel wash as well
buy some liquid skill from GW [Agrax Earthshade]
Y'all virgins tbh
Nice Kongo-class BB, @Mu . Which one is it?
Derp, that's a Nagato-class. Probably Nagato herself from early in the war.
I've seen folks do really well at weathering ships at that scale. It really does come down to time and patience, both to learn the skills and apply them. In the end, they're not that much different from 1/35 scale armor, just far more tetchy.
Yee, post refit, pre AA barge conversion Nagato
_nods._
Oh I've seen some extremely skilled people weather 1:700 models down to absolute perfection but it's far beyond my skill level
Two words: photo etch.
Yes, photo etch <:monkaS:430210831750529044>
_hates having to use photo etch, btw._
I've done 1:700 PE parts before and it's an absolute nightmare
Yeah they're so finnicky and hard to get right
I have the Trumpeter 1/200 HMS Nelson.
Ah lucky bastard
That thing is huge.
My experience with Trumpeter is that they make really good kits but they take a bit of skill to put together. I have their 1942 1/700 HMS Warspite and I made quite the mess of the PE parts
Their Missouri in that same scale is fucking massive, and the upcoming Yorktown is even more so.
Yeah 1:200 is huuge
Trumpeter is...interesting. They seem to have an A-team and a B-team, with certain subjects being relegated to their second-stringers. It's annoying, because the difference in quality is visible even to the average kit assembler.
I've experienced that with some Tamiya kits
Some of them have great details, other seem slapped together
Yeah, but they're much better overall.
Usually Tamiya's non-Japanese ships are the slapped together ones, hmm
Keep in mind the less steller Tamiya kits are from the '70s.
That's true
Most of their non-Japanese ships are from that older era.
I did notice a lot of older-looking sprues in their KGV kit
Indeed.
Anyways do keep posting models in here, always happy to see it <:sargonfingerguns:568463117856669696>
I should post my own more, too
Thanks.