Airfix 1/600 Mauretania

[Dave Ward]

HI Dave well looking fairly good :thinking:but my heart sunk to see the hull cut down like 570 did on his bismark OH DEAR :thinking:im sure he did that to wind me up LOL:crying: but at least this ship is gettin built oh it hurts me to see that done :sick: :anguished: but i know you have your reasons for doin it but couldunt you have made a bit deeper seascape to allow the hull to sit in full hull :crying: ? AN yes i know the bottom part of the hull wont be seen as its underwater but with a full hull at least we know its there lol
Chrisb

Chris,
when you look at a ship in it's natural environment, you don't see the hull! The only time you would see the full hull of a completed ship is when it's in dry dock, or has run aground! I agree the massive full hull models seen at the Science & the National Maritime Museums are stunning, but at the scale of 1/700, I prefer waterline. Deepening the base to enclose the hull would be a lot of work for little purpose, except to increase the weight & use a lot of material.
I'm going to continue my surgery - I have several 1/350 models ready for the saw - including SMS Emden, HMS Dreadnought & HMS Agamemnon. I do have a couple of models that will be done full hull - the 1/144 Fairplay tug & the 1/72 Viking ship - mainly because of the extreme difficulty you'd have cutting the hulls!
Dave

[boatman]

OK Dave many thanks for your reply an exsplanation but next time i'll look through slitted fingers lol
chrisb

[Dave Ward]

Some of the smaller ventilators had flat faces...................

Exactly the small job that I got my rotary tool for - a few minutes work with a burr...............

It would have been better to do his before painting - hence the rather fuzzy edges!
I'd filled the lifeboats with putty, then used the drum sander bit to smooth them out

Getting there.............
Dave

[Dave Ward]

That's it for the weekend................

The fragile masts and decals to add & the never-ending round of touch ups, but the end is in sight
Dave

[Dave Ward]

How to go from reasonably happy to p****d off in a few minutes!!!!!!!!!!!! :sad:
Just putting the finishing touches to this - these are the Airfix Instructions for painting:

I'd just accepted that these were correct - I must have looked at a lot of pictures of the Mauretania & never taken notice.
The hull black is virtually a straight line from the foredeck aft - no step up and down, as the Airfix drawings have. The Airfix drawings say '1909', so conceivably she had this scheme that year, but haven't found any pictures that show this. Very annoying - so do I correct it as per photographs, or leave it as the Airfix drawings?
Just goes to show that you can do research, but not see what is really obvious.............
Dave

[spanner570]

That's annoying Peter.
I've not looked, but are there any 1909 images knocking about?

If it was my model, I would take it as read that she had the paint job as stated by Airfix. Apart from your good self, who would have known of your perceived error had you not posted the above?

Apart from that, it will be difficult to paint over the black with white, without a 'Slight' difference in shade being apparent....

I would leave the black on this very nice model as it is. But as the old saying goes 'Your model, your choice.'

Ron

[Dave Ward]

That's annoying Peter.
I've not looked, but are there any 1909 images knocking about?

If it was my model, I would take it as read that she had the paint job as stated by Airfix. Apart from your good self, who would have known of your perceived error had you not posted the above?

Apart from that, it will be difficult to paint over the black with white, without a 'Slight' difference in shade being apparent....

I would leave the black on this very nice model as it is. But as the old saying goes 'Your model, your choice.'

Ron

Peter?
Dave

[spanner570]

Sorry Chris. Senior Moment.....

[Tim Marlow]

Sorry Chris. Senior Moment.....

Happens to me all the time Ron…..

Looks very good to me Dave. I would guess that the Airfix scheme is as built, and the later black was added to imitate newer ships like the Titanic? Either way it looks excellent from here :thumb2:

[Dave Ward]

I couldn't leave it like that, so I've got the white paint out.................. It will probably need another coat, but then that will be it - I'll be posting pictures of the finished thing in the completed section tomorrow
Dave

[rtfoe]

Good job so far Dave, funny is that even the box top shows the color line difference from the instruction sheet. The second coat should cover that up.

Cheers,
Richard

[Dave Ward]

Good job so far Dave, funny is that even the box top shows the color line difference from the instruction sheet. The second coat should cover that up.

Cheers,
Richard

Richard,
yes, it was staring me n the face every time I looked at the box & my first post in this tread as well!
Dave