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Airfix Golden Hind 1/96 - First REAL ship build

Hi
I am just about to start the Airfix golden hind myself! I'm still reading about stuff and deciding on paint schemes etc. However I'm a bit confused. You say yours is 1/96 scale and it looks the same as mine which claims to be 1/72 scale. I know they may not be accurate and maybe 96 is closer to the truth? Where did you get your figure from?
Thanks!
 
Your model looks great so far. A very good job of painting. I find many of the colours on GH models to be too bright for my liking but from what I have read, bright colours and geometric patterns were common. Nevertheless, I might do mine in more subdued colours.

Did you do anything to the hull and deck to get nice wooden effects?

Also, I was just reading in Battson's book on "Modelling Tudor Ships". It is definitely a book of its time! e.g. when discussing sails he says to go to all your female friends and talk pretty to them to try to persuade them to stitch your sails for you! I also liked his advice on painting sails:
"To begin with, resist any temptation to decorate the sails with elaborate designs sometimes proffered, whether of lions, Royal initials, Tudor roses, or an other improbabilities. By the sixteenth century, such lower school vulgarities had disappeared from English ships, though occasionally affected by aliens, who would naturally know no better."

Well I say phooey! I bought the beautiful GH sails form HisModel and I am gonna use them because I think they look spectacular :-)
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johnlattanzio said:
Your model looks great so far. A very good job of painting. I find many of the colours on GH models to be too bright for my liking but from what I have read, bright colours and geometric patterns were common. Nevertheless, I might do mine in more subdued colours.

Did you do anything to the hull and deck to get nice wooden effects?

Also, I was just reading in Battson's book on "Modelling Tudor Ships". It is definitely a book of its time! e.g. when discussing sails he says to go to all your female friends and talk pretty to them to try to persuade them to stitch your sails for you! I also liked his advice on painting sails:
"To begin with, resist any temptation to decorate the sails with elaborate designs sometimes proffered, whether of lions, Royal initials, Tudor roses, or an other improbabilities. By the sixteenth century, such lower school vulgarities had disappeared from English ships, though occasionally affected by aliens, who would naturally know no better."

Well I say phooey! I bought the beautiful GH sails form HisModel and I am gonna use them because I think they look spectacular :-)
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I’m still on the fence on the sails. May even leave them off all together. The wood effects were pretty simple. I airbrushed everything with a base coat of golden brown acrylic, then went over it with AK interactive wash for wood. The wash does a good job of highlighting the seams. After the wash dried, I rubbed the hull with a dry cloth to remove some of the wash, which gave some nice variations in color. This made a great satin wood appearance. Pretty much did the same thing with the deck, but with a slightly thinner wash. The important part is to make sure you’re using an acrylic base if you’re going to use the AK wash because it’s enamel based. You can also add just a bit more detail by going back over the sections that you’ve rubbed, using a dry brush of the wood wash, which will go on just a touch darker. Just very sparse to indicate some woodgrain. I didn’t really do this as much on the hall as I did on the doors and stern.
 
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My favorite ship design of all Ships is the Golden Hind. Looks like we're all at the same place in building! With the same sails! These sails are not bent on yet, I just placed them where they wont fall for the photo.

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swlusk said:
Thanks! As far as paint, I have been using a combination of cheap Craftsmart acrylic and Vallejo acrylics thinned with a few drops of acrylic paint retarder. I actually used a pen and nibs. It takes a bit of work to get the paint to flow, but it gives me great control over those tight corners and lines. The stern work was a challenge for sure. As for the stern plate wood effects, I brushed on acrylic, went back over it with a dry brush just as it began to dry to give it a bit of grain, then AK wash for wood. Kinda borrowed several ideas from others techniques and ran with it
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Great work with the painting and the staining! I have used color marker pens on sailing ships for years for the same reason that you mentioned. I have had great success with them.

Bill
 
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