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

I have trouble with 1/200 PE ship parts.

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.

I'd already posted these to my Twitter when they were done earlier this year. Next time I finish a kit and photograph it, I'll share the results here as well.

_wishes he could find his damn tripod._

I also need to get a much better lighting solution.

Lighting is important I've found

Learned the hard way to never paint details like deck weathering under poor lighting 🙃

yeah

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jRyN-dGDz6c

https://twitter.com/Abeseesall/status/1137752194130669568?s=19

If this isn't art I don't know what is.

It's food

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