Reset on the Bismarck diorama - back to square 2

[White_Wolf]

The Bismarck diorama went from bad to worse, with me making the mistake of continuing along a path that I never really liked. After way too many months of contemplation and procrastination, hoping the issue would just go away by simply swearing at it, I decided to reset things and back to square 2. I want to strip the wooden deck (MK2 aftermarket), which I had stained before, but it went way too dark. That was one issue.
The second issue was the "water" and the whole thing just didn't work out. I tried a lot of spray over the bow, nah, it looked horrible.
These two things led to buy the wooden deck aftermarket only, comes in the right colour, but, of course, I have to remove the old one.

Some work in progress showing all the "water" removed, base covered with aluminium foil again and the bow section clean - all parts removed and cleaned up. Now slowly removing everything from the deck, repainting the black water line, some other minor parts on the hull too. Another mountain to climb, totally self inflicted.

Thanks for watching - btw ... I began building this model back in 2017 .....


Laurence

 

[moon puppy]

That's a bold move, good luck Laurence.

 

[Heavens Eagle]

It happens. Kudos to going through the "fix it" procedure. I know that is really going to be a pain, but as they say no pain, no gain. The good part is that the fixing process you will learn something impressive which will end up being a huge benefit.

 

[paddy]

Oh Wow.....I get where you are coming from, why do we put ourselves through this sort of thing ?