tudor ship painting

[oldmodeller]

Came up with this way of painting the triangular decoration on tudor period ships.

I have just completed the Airfix Revenge

Firstly I painted the hull white then painted the areas where the triangular decoration is with the lighter of the two colours

I then painted the darker colour onto clear decal.

This was then cut into strips, then the strips were cut into squares and finally triangles.

These were then placed in position to form the final design

[Ratch]

Mine was painted freehand

[oldmodeller]

Very nice Ratch. I still have the Golden Hind to do in my stash. Does the kt have the engraved/raised lines to follow for the decoration as on the Revenge kit they were nearly non existant and disappeared completely under a coat of primer

[Ratch]

Thanks, I don't recall raised demarkation lines. I seem to have lost the pictures of my Revenge, which is a bit worse for wear cry

[John Symmons]

Hi Old Modeler

Well done, I like your thinking. I used something similar for doing the lozenge pattern on WW1 German aircraft, by first drawing it in a drawing program the, laser printing it out. cutting it to the approximate size and finally trimming it when dry. The only thing being don't use over dark colours and always print at the greatest colour saturation.

Your Revenge has turned out great, I'm always surprised at how well many of these old kits turn out. Keep up the good work and looking forward to seeing more.

Remember wew do this for fun. JtP

[oldmodeller]

Thanks John,

I think quite a few modellers take themselves too seriously. I remember one comment I saw regarding a moan about Airfix moulding the glass and frame of a 1/72 scale jeep as one piece in clear plastic and how difficult it was going to be to mask and airbrush. Had this guy not heard of a paint brush?

[Simon OGorman]

That's beautiful! Excellent job thumbsup