Brokeneagle
Master at Arms
Can we have a close up of the water running off the hull? And how did you do this effect?
Cheers!
Hi John,
here are some shots and explanations.
Here are the paints I used and the specific brush.
The brush is a 1/4 Takion Rake.
The white pigment was mixed with Tamiya thinner, and other effects with fixative, and others with Tamiya gloss white acrylic.
The oils were thinned and painted straight on for the more defined, larger trails over the ballast tanks, making sure that I went over these a number of times but left some quite translucent.
Once these were dry I coated the whole model with TAMIYA clear and added a gloss finish.
I also made a number of mixes with Tamiya acrylic white + pigment, as well as thinned Tamiya white plus Tamiya clear gloss.
All of the detailed effects requiring very fine detail /lines were done with the white artist oils and a very fine small pointed brush..
I will also add a section of staged photos over the whole build shortly, after this detailed section is complete.
Photo's
I always hate taking these close Macro shots of paint because this is closer than even your natural eye can see so the effects look really awful.
The water run over the ballast is shown in close-up with these 2 shots. As explained above they were done with a number of layers with some left very translucent while others were highlighted with a fine brush and very strong white oil paint.
The wide areas are done with the rake and the pooled white is done through building up a mix of Tamiya gloss + Tamiya clear Acrylics.
Some parts have a slight brown tinge over the whole area of the uboat. This was to give the impression of the hul color through the finer water.
This was done with very thick Tamiya white gloss mixed with Tamiya clear and applied like a wash - 2-3 coats.
Water drips with oils on a very fine brush.
Here you can see a close up of the Takion Rake brush - notice that it is missing over half the bristles at full length. This is what allows you to get the streaming effect , combined with very thick but fluid suspended white medium.
The blown, streaming water under the effect of the ocean wind was done with a fine brush and diluted oils - just takes a steady hand knowing the effect you want before hand in your minds eye.
Wave splash over the life boat containers was done in the same way as the pooling around the conning tower - just make sure that you don't apply it over everything - less is more in this case. Plenty of gloss applied as well afterwards.
Front deck - pooling done as stated. Water 'crazing over the wooden planks and falling in between done with the takion rake and highly diluted white oils - dilution was done with artists linseed oil. The white water in the snorkel cavity was done the same as the pooling effect , just using a thicker mix and applying the effect about 10 times.
Regards
Ian.
Hope you got some good bits from the explanation.
