Building the 1/350 Battleship Queen Elizabeth for Drachinifel - Part Three, Paint
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- Опубликовано: 8 сен 2024
- Today at Badgerworks, we continue building the absolutely monstrous HMS Queen Elizabeth battleship in 1/350 scale for fellow youtuber, @Drachinifel. Make sure you check out his channel dedicated to naval history here:
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In this video, we make a start on painting this behemoth.
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You're a better man than I am, Steam. The last ship I did was an old Dragon kit of the Bismarck about 20 years ago. Had the black and white zig zags in the camo scheme all the way up the superstructure. Nearly lost my mind. I will say this, both of those RAF Tamiya colors; the XF-82 & XF-83, are two of the most versatile "grays" in the Tamiya range. I use the 83 quite frequently for many non-RAF applications. Good job on the QE!
Thanks. I use those Tamiya RAF colours a lot too. As you say, they're extremely versatile :-)
Nice job masking and applying the paint.
Thanks :-)
I've got to admit that masking, painting and small parts do make me quiver with fear. You've done an excellent job on the paint work and getting those tiny parts in, no carpet monster victims im impressed mate. 1 thing i adore about your vids are you learn me so much.
Thanks. Sometimes you just have to say "sod it" and go for it :-)
@@SteamGeezerUK yeah when you first opened kit i was thinking exact same thing, then you started with masking and painting and those tiny bits and im thinking out of my skill level 😂
Feeling down and hopeless. But what's that? A new SteamGeezer video, here to save the day! Huzzah!
Glad to have you with us, old chap :-)
Good Morning. Scale Ships are among the hardest things ever to paint. Great Job! Stay Safe!
Thanks, you too!
It’s looking fantastic. Love the humour and well done for sorting the knobbly bits😂😂😂
Cheers :-)
"Weapon grade Chinesium."
A quip worthy of Drach, which like so many of his, required the removal of coffee from my screen and keyboard.
You're welcome ;-)
Want to say your doing a fantastic job.
You've certainly shown me what I'm in for, if I hope to achieve half the quality you have, on my planned QE build.
Watching you , I decided to purchase the cheap Lindbergh 350 HMS Hood as I dry run.
I picked the Hood , since if, as I Probally will screw it up, I can always diorama it covering all my mistakes in flame and smoke even cutting out the entire midsection if I have to.
Have been a fan and subscriber for a while now, please keep them coming.
Like how use the masking tape for the camouflage look. Will be very helpful on POW.
Well-done! Patience is a virtue and you have exemplified it so far in this series. Looking good!
Thanks!
Cracking paint job. For some of the more awkward paint jobs I've had in the past I've used masking fluid around the tricky details and filled in the bigger areas with masking tape.
Yes, masking fluid can be very useful, as can blu-tack, masking putty and various others. On reflection, doing this all with tape was probably a bit daft :-)
Not that my opinion counts for anything, but I think you've done a cracking job of that paint. Well done fella.
Thanks, I appreciate it :-)
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Complimenti , SteamGeezer 👍🏆🤝
...and I thought masking aircraft was a pain in the A....Cracking job there fella!
I think this build has made me appreciate aircraft and tanks even more lol...thoroughly cured of my desire to build a "Boat"
Thanks for sharing Steve, I am enjoying this tremendously. 👍
Glad to help :-)
Those rods you were asking about at the 51 minute mark. They are actually hinged at one end, and open out over the side of the ship to allow resupply and such when the ship was somewhere it could not physically dock
Ah, thanks for that - I knew someone would know what they were. As I said, I know very little about ships :-)
It's looking great!
Thanks :-)
Masking around those deck details was the bane of my life with my HMS Dreadnought.
For the life of me, I couldn't understand why they weren't separate parts to be painted, clipped off a sprue, and glued in place later.
Also, I got a good weathered deck effect with Humbrol enamel: a solid coat of 71 and a streaky wash of 29.
Your dazzle camouflage came out very nicely.
Thanks. I would have preferred those parts be separate too. It seems they have some funny ideas when it comes to designing these models - making some parts needlessly complicated and other parts not complicated enough :-)
@@SteamGeezerUK Thats why wooden decks are great!
33:16 "The bent bits" that had me howling, I was looking for the dented tins in Morrison's bent bargains. Joking apart, well done as I know from experience with masking, the devil is in the detail.
Masking masterclass. Love hearing the 3D printer chugging away in the background. Great to see the patroen list growing. Deservedly. Others viewers, throw Steamgeezer a quid if you enjoy his work. It supports the content and I reckon most of us want it to continue.
Thanks for your ongoing support, it's greatly appreciated :-)
Looking really good, love it!😊
Thank you! 😊
Looking good....
Thanks 👍
Great job mate, been watching these vids for a while, and you are brilliant at this model stuff
Thank you very much!
Hope you had the optivisor on for all that small stuff!🤣🤣👍😎 Great to see
I generally use a pair of cheap reading glasses from the Pound Shop. I find they're more practical than magnifiers and way cheaper :-)
I find it interesting that the camo painting does not extend across the deck, I guess the ships in the Atlantic fleet were more worried about submarines then aircraft. You are doing a heck of a great job on that ship
I recall reading somewhere the camo was partly designed to confuse the eye as to the speed and direction the ship was travelling in, rather than to hide it.
This is coming along smashing 😁👌
Looking excellent so far. I admire your diligence with the masking, I resorted to the hairy stick on my HMS Rodney build to pick out all of the deck fittings! Top build sir, looking forward to the next episode.
Jason Pierce very sensible!
Every time I think of the navy I also think of that song by George formby 'it serves you right (shouldn't have joined)'
My old sergeant major used to say "If you can't take a joke, you shouldn't have f**king joined", usually when bad things were happening :-)
@@SteamGeezerUK haha! That is true. Were you part of the military or cadets?
Sieht jetzt schon nen hammer aus🤤🤤
Danke :-)
Nice! I highly recommend the wood set for this kit, there are a number of inexpensive choices also...
We decided to go for an "out of the box" build with this one, no aftermarket parts, and the deck is actually pretty good.
That really looks wonderful. I was wondering, that now you've done what is basically a maritime version of the 'Caunter' paint scheme, as used by the British Army for a while in the desert war, how about a proper 'Dazzle Ship' scheme on a warship? Some of those are wildly imaginative.
I might do another ship in the future, but not until I've recovered from this one at least :-)
Look at the Rpulse and Prince of Wales. They couldn't depress their guns and didn't have enough to fend off the enemy.
The rear flagpole? I believe that is yer actual Jackstaff. Flying the Union Flag off it, turns the Union Flag into the Union Jack. Normally, there would be a White Ensign flying from it.
Love the details. At 51:00, that's a Paravane - a device used to cut mines from their mooring lines, when towed from a ship.
And the one on the bow is known as the Jackstaf
You often hear people say you shouldn't call the Union Jack the Union Jack unless it's being flown on a ship, but the Royal Navy stated some years ago that it's quite acceptable to refer to it as such no matter where it is.
As for the Paravane, I had no clue what that was, so thanks for that. It's kind of funny sticking bits on and having no clue what they are :-)
Sorry my mistake Stem Jack to the Bow 😮 great build by the way 👍👍
@@SteamGeezerUK - I always thought that was the case with the flag. My dad's older brother was in the Merchant Navy all his working life (he retired, and got a pub in Worcestershire), and used to go ballistic if someone said the words 'Union Jack'. But I always called it that.
for the last 30 years or so people have thought the british warships of WW2 was painted in yellowish-gray colours. Never research have shown that was wrong. They based the yellow bit from period paint samples that had yellowed over the years. In reality the ships were a whole lot more blue than the models in your reference books shows. If you do an online search for 'royal navy ww2 camouflage colours' there is a lot of interesting info on eg. britmodellers.
Sorry to be the bearer of sad news. Your ship still looks cool. Think of the yellowish colours as a historical monument over how a whole lot of people can get something very wrong for a very long time. it's going to be a fun "warstory" to tell some day.
In all fairness, the only grey I've ever seen from that period was when my dad, many years ago, came home with the van absolutely stuffed floor to ceiling, bulkhead to rear doors, with gallon cans of Royal Navy surplus "battleship grey" paint. It didn't even have a colour code - it was just labelled "Grey"
We never had to buy grey primer again after that :-)
Wouldn’t it have been easier to get a paintbrush out rather than all that intricate masking on the decks?
Probably :-)
Cracking build so far. All that masking though... how much tape did you get through?
Looks really good - looking forward to seeing it complete. Great vid thanks for sharing.
Not as much as you might think, funnily enough. The tape roll looked barely different when I was done.
'That's not the right hole' that's what she said 😂 sorry I couldn't resist 😂
'Where is it, couldn't find the hole,' yes that was me laughing at the back 😂
@@kaneworsnop1007 Glad to hear it. Thanks for watching :-)
Wow, that is looking great. I had to buy a second kit when I built the airfix belfast, so fiddly, kept breaking bits.
There have been a few bits on this that were the same :-)
I think that the long bits are pipe, not cleaning rods. I think that they cleaned the guns with a bundle of rag attached to a chain and pulled it from breach to muzzle.
if you watch documantries you will see the crew cleaning barrels of battleship calibre with rods with sponge and rags on the end. i beleive it was done this way so as not to damage the rifling in the barrels.
Nice work, this is going to prove to be a super useful resource when it comes to building my HMS Belfast in the same scale. I'm going to be getting the FlyHawk Super Detail set for it so many many hours of PE heaven, or hell, not sure which it will be yet, LOL. I know you said this 'boat' is for a friend, did you, or he, consider a wooden deck? If so what made you decide not to go with one, other than extra cost? They're not all that expensive (around £20 for a Hunter wood deck). Any reason why you didn't use some liquid mask and or the masking putty, which I also love by the way.
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We decided from the outset to go for an "out of the box" build. In all fairness, the deck on this is actually very nice with lots of detail. As for the masking, I just got carried away with the tape :-)
Super work - though it's only a tiddler ;)
Oh shush :-)
I have build some plastic models in 1:350 . I think this is is not model building. I have made some hulls from scratch in 1.135 scale and they are superb.
The better way to handle removing all those bits is to use liquid mask instead of cutting them all off. Man you're making more work for yourself than needed. I realize this is long done but in the future keep that in mind. Don't make the job harder on yourself.
You paint the barbet BEFORE you paint the deck and then just wrap a piece of tape around the barbet. Easy Peasy
Thanks, I appreciate it :-)
You should name it warspike instead. Because he love HMS Warspike.
I think you mean "Warspite" and, if you're referring to Drachinifel, he chose the model, not me. Thanks for watching though, I appreciate it :-)
That is the hawse pipe
any particular reason why you spent so much time masking stuff like the turret rings instead of just brush painting them?
I generally find if you have brush painted and airbrushed things next to each other, the difference in finish is very noticeable. Also, for me personally, getting a decent finish with a brush on such a large area would take as long as masking it, but obviously it's down to each individual to do things the way they want to. I never tell people "this is how you should do it" but more "this is how I do it" :-)
My husband uses these plans from Woodprix and is very happy with them. However. I love yours!
losing parts is like losing your sock in the laundry