Micronaut Only Thread

tstockton · Post by **tstockton** » Tue May 08, 2007 2:46 pm

raffrafff,

Those are some mighty good looking models! How did you do the aerial recognition striping so cleanly? I've seen lots of guys try to paint them in the scale I prefer (1:1200 / 1:1250) with much poorer results... and haven't tried myself (yet), because I don't feel I have the skill levels to do so.

I've asked the same question on other modeling boards, and gotten varying answers -- some use decals, some use decals for just the edges of the colors, some mask and paint, some just paint free-hand.. and am very curious about how you modeled them so well!

Regards,
Tom Stockton

Donald M. Scheef · Post by **Donald M. Scheef** » Tue May 08, 2007 7:16 pm

I recently received a shipment from GHQ that included their usual coupon with description of recent releases and upcoming releases. It appears that USS Delaware (BB-28) may be the first Micronaut release of the 2007-2008 season.

Don Scheef

raffraff · Post by **raffraff** » Tue May 08, 2007 8:23 pm

tstockton wrote:raffrafff,

Those are some mighty good looking models! How did you do the aerial recognition striping so cleanly? I've seen lots of guys try to paint them in the scale I prefer (1:1200 / 1:1250) with much poorer results... and haven't tried myself (yet), because I don't feel I have the skill levels to do so.

I've asked the same question on other modeling boards, and gotten varying answers -- some use decals, some use decals for just the edges of the colors, some mask and paint, some just paint free-hand.. and am very curious about how you modeled them so well!

My answer is ... carefuly freehand paint ... on the model are moulded aerial recognition strips . Patience and a little prectice : )

cbovill · Post by **cbovill** » Wed May 09, 2007 1:26 am

raffraff,

Wow! Those are beautiful! It is always a pleasure to see finely crafted miniatures such as these finished so well. The weathering you applied to your ships came out very nicely and adds so much to the realism of the ships. I have made a few attempts to weather mine with poor results, but I need to master this aspect to get my work to the next level.

Would you care to describe how you went about weathering your ships and what materials you used, as I am very interested in your technique.

Again, beautiful work on beautiful ships!

Chris

jb · Post by jb » Wed May 09, 2007 1:54 am

I'm with cbovill,Excellent work! How'd you do it?

regia-marina · Post by **regia-marina** » Sat May 12, 2007 8:16 pm

Beautiful work raffraff! Excellent detail. For Piotr Neuff, your work on the Kaga is also excellent. Thank you both for posting. Seeing the work of others helps me improve the quality of my work.

Mickel · Post by **Mickel** » Sun May 27, 2007 1:21 pm

For you more learned folk than me; is the KGV model as depicted suitable for PoW as at Denmark Strait and Singapore? (or at least close enough...)

Anyone got any suggestions for hypothetical WWII French ship colouring if they were to be fighting the Italians in the Med? I've got Dunkerque here and Algerie on the way. If their tanks are anything to go by, I'm sure it would be something frustratingly artistic.

Mike

Hauptmann6 · Post by **Hauptmann6** » Mon May 28, 2007 3:43 am

cbovill wrote: If you're looking for advice on paint to use, don't ask me, I'm fully committed to Tamaya simply due to it being what is available where I live.

If you don't mind ordering over the net, Model Master is available here http://www.testors.com/catalog_browse.asp?ictNbr=45 it's the water clean up type as well. I got mine in around 4-5 days after ordering. A little more expensive than at the local shop, but the local shop doesn't carry the naval colors.

Donald M. Scheef · Post by **Donald M. Scheef** » Mon May 28, 2007 4:07 am

For anyone who has these models, could you tell me the types and numbers of aircraft included with the following GHQ Micronauts:

IJN14 Shokaku
IJN25 Junyo
IJN30 Ryujo
IJN37 Akagi
IJN39 Hiryu
IJN41 Soryu
IJN42 Kaga
IJN44 Taiho
IJN46 Zuiho
USN18 CV-2 Lexington
USN31 CV-8 Hornet
USN52 CVL-22 Independence
USN53 CV-14 Ticonderoga
USN62 CVE-73 Gambier Bay
USN63 CV-7 Wasp
USN66 CV-16 Lexington
USN74 CV-6 Enterprise
USN80 CV-4 Ranger
USN82 CV-3 Saratoga

Also, from the photos in the catalog, it appears that the only type of aircraft provided with British aircraft carriers is Swordfish. Is this correct?

Thank you for your assistance.

Don Scheef

cbovill · Post by **cbovill** » Mon May 28, 2007 7:48 am

For you more learned folk than me; is the KGV model as depicted suitable for PoW as at Denmark Strait and Singapore? (or at least close enough...)

GHQ's King George V model differs from Prince of Wales in the following respects (as quoted from Roger Chesneau's King George V Class Battleships:
1. Only KGV had the external degaussing cable running round the ship's hull, all others mounted this internally.
2. Quaterdeck UP mounting on KGV replaced by single 40mm Bofors gun on POW
3. In May 1941 four Type 282 and four Type 285 radars added
4. In June/July 1941 all UP mountings removed, one octuple and one quad 2 pdr AA added; UP directors replaced by pom-pom directors; Type 271 radar added.

As you can see there are not that many differences, and at this scale the most significant would be the degausing cable, which with great precision and effort could be removed from the KGV model, but I chose not to attempt that conversion and simply put her in service as is. At GHQ's current rate of 1 or 2 new models for the RN each year, I think it would be a very long while before a true POW is built.

Chris

cbovill · Post by **cbovill** » Mon May 28, 2007 7:52 am

Don,

I haven't started building the USN or IJN yet but the RN carriers all come with Swordfish, and the Illustrious class also come with a couple of sprues of what I think are Seafires. I've actually taken a few of these Seafires and filed their wings down to make Bf-109T's for the Graf Zeppelin because she only comes with Ju-87C Stukas. I'm sure someone will be able to answer for the US and Japanese ships.

Chris

cbovill · Post by **cbovill** » Sun Jun 17, 2007 9:37 am

Well it's been a loooong time since I've posted any new ships out here. This latest group is my attempt to start doing the Royal Navy justice and start painting up some of those wild camo schemes they used in WWII. Since my fleet is top heavy, I concentrated on building a group of 4 cruisers and 15 destroyers. Now if I were just going to paint them up as usual this would have been an easy task, but no, I decided I wanted each ship to have an actual paint scheme it would have worn in the first half of the war. The flagship of this group, HMS Belfast was the most difficult, and as you will notice, is not present - because I decided to strip her down after I finished her, unsatisfied with the colors as compared to resource materials of her. BTW, Easy Off oven cleaner took that paint off beautifully, right down to the bare metal.

The three cruisers HMS Gloucester, HMS Dunedin, and HMS Despatch are wearing an assortment of Admiralty disruptive patterns.

HMS Gloucester as she appeared in May 1941 at the time of her loss during the Battle for Crete

HMS Dunedin wearing the pattern she went down in during November of 1941

HMS Despatch in a cool looking wavy pattern from July 1942

The destroyers is where it really got exciting. I'd always wanted to paint up the destroyers in the Western Approaches schemes with the white/blue/green pattern. I painted a flotilla of six G/H/I class destroers in this scheme from 1941/42 time frame. Unfortunately, this pattern is highly reflective despite the matt finish and I had too much light. I tried doctoring the photos to tone down the brightness, but they are still washed out. The photos just don't do justice to how magnificently these ships actually came out:

British destroyer in Polish service as ORP Garland

HMS Intrepid

HMS Icarus

HMS Hero

HMS Griffin

HMS Gallant

Next are H class destroyers in a variety of gray patterns (507C and 507A):

HMS Hasty

HMS Havock

HMS Hotspur

I also painted up some Tribal class destroyers in a variety of Western Approaches and Admiralty disruptive schemes:

HMS Gurkha

HMS Mohawk

HMS Matabele

Enjoy the pictures, I'll try to get better at taking these darn pictures, camera just wouldn't get in closer and it supposedly has a macro lense.

Chris

jb · Post by jb » Sun Jun 17, 2007 9:46 am

Jolly Good Show, Chris. (I like the tags,they look familiar)

SeaHarrier2006 · Post by **SeaHarrier2006** » Mon Jun 18, 2007 7:56 am

Hi Guys,

I just have to say theose RN ships look top class Chris

, it's always good to see such work don so well

As for me, I have been busy adding to my Modern fleet, with 6 more Knox class, a 2nd Iowa Class and 2 Russion udloys. I have also been having a go at converting a Ticonderoga Class to a Flight IIA, as well as starting a new project of making my own Leander Class Frigate.

Since GHQ dropped the ball, I thought I would have a go and see what I can come up with. I will post some pics as soon as I get near to finishing it, and maybe even have a go at Making a metal Casting if it looks good enough.

Anyway on with the work... keep up the great paint jobs, and look forward to seeing more soon.

SeaHarrier2006

Hugewally · Post by **Hugewally** » Mon Jun 18, 2007 8:43 am

Do any of you guys black wash your ship to bring out the detail?

What about weathering/ rust streaks, etc?