I'm gonna need a bigger boat,ORCA
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Lightning
Master Member
which one has the best close up shot?
Yeah, I vote to use the one in the close-up shot.
Lt Washburn
Sr Member
But if he's not wearing it, it still needs to be stowed on the boat somewhere.
I love seeing projects put together but I usually can grasp where and how the materials came together. This 1/6 world of handmade at this 1:1 level of detail is frying my expectations. I simply cannot quantify "how good" or "how close" when I can't tell which one of the propane stoves was 1/6 and which was 1/1 (fully agree with joberg on this). I actually did the full double take when I scrolled far enough to see the little one sitting in the full size. And it took me a decent amount of time to see the percolator crown was different. Do you wear jeweler's glasses while doing this work?
DCN
Sr Member
God, I love all the details you've put together! The weathering job really shows up in this pic! I was playing around last night on a scrap piece of wood, I had the idea of using Cigarette ash dry brushed on the whole boat with a flat clear coat. kind of surprised me the way the ground in ash looked. The Sea Sick green darkened up with a nice dirty look. I'll just have to add the salt spray.
Bones_68
Sr Member
I did the same thing as Greenmachines when looking at those stove images. For some reason the miniature looked more “real” to me than the full size version, like it’s a better and more solid build.
It’s all the thought that goes into those little details that I love the most. Like the worn-out finish on the bench in the cabin, showing that butts have been sliding in and out for decades.
Or the food on the plates that still looks wet and might actually be edible (reminds me of pulled pork).
Or all the little labels, charts, and books you would mostly ignore in real life, but it would feel weird if they were missing. Booze bottles that look like they rolled right off the assembly line. The weather-beaten surface of the transom.
Sorry to ramble but I’m the sort who doesn’t have the patience or talent required to make something like this. So it’s been a real joy to watch the process and see how it’s done, to see it come to life day by day.
It’s all the thought that goes into those little details that I love the most. Like the worn-out finish on the bench in the cabin, showing that butts have been sliding in and out for decades.
Or the food on the plates that still looks wet and might actually be edible (reminds me of pulled pork).
Or all the little labels, charts, and books you would mostly ignore in real life, but it would feel weird if they were missing. Booze bottles that look like they rolled right off the assembly line. The weather-beaten surface of the transom.
Sorry to ramble but I’m the sort who doesn’t have the patience or talent required to make something like this. So it’s been a real joy to watch the process and see how it’s done, to see it come to life day by day.
This isn’t a rule but this kind of model is a totally different thing to the spinner, hard edged models need a clean methodical working brain, this is way more freeing I don’t wash my hands letting the grim add to everything, I don’t sand the timber flat so it has texture for the paint, I haven’t actually started aging yet, then I’ll bring out the wire wool, washes and the rust,
The sigarette ash is a great idea, don’t be scared of trying anything, on full size sets we go to town with aging wax’s powders. Cleaning of aging is as good as putting it on, wax on wax off.
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