HMS Sovereign of the Seas - Bashing DeAgostini Beyond Believable Boundaries

NMBROOK said:
Only snag with Rub'n'Buff is it can rub off.I tried it years ago and found it too delicate a finish although looked fabulous after application. I remember a Guy scratch building Royal Louis and he used it, he had a lot of issues with the finish rubbing off when he touched the carvings whilst working on the ship.

It wouldn't matter if you only had say a figurehead that could go on last, but as we both know, you have one or two more carvings than that ROTF
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Rub'n Buff really grabs hold of the flat black paint, probably because the porous non-gloss surface grabs the pigments pretty well. It's not rubbing off without solvent. Skin oil from your fingers probably has the same result after repeated contact with the high spots on a model. You can touch it up seamlessly if you rube some off in a spot. You're probably right that I'm going to rub a lot off with my booger pickers from the hundreds of decorations on the Sovereign! :D
 
DARIVS ARCHITECTVS said:
Here is the result using Rub'n Buff gold next to the Alclad II Bronze accented with black panel liner. The gold is a bit more reflective than the photo shows. Which do you guys prefer?

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Good morning Kurt. Left- Bronze left no doubt. Awesome log and some brilliant advice from the guys. That cannon is first class Kurt! Cheers Grant
 
DARIVS ARCHITECTVS said:
Are you aware that the picture you showed was from a ship 200 years in the future from the one I'm building?
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I am. Unless the crew would have been polishing like mad, I think the canons could have been of a dark grey/anthracite color with a greenish sheen.
Since there's no reliable evidence of that time, it remains your choice.
 
RDN1954 said:
I am. Unless the crew would have been polishing like mad, I think the canons could have been of a dark grey/anthracite color with a greenish sheen.
Since there's no reliable evidence of that time, it remains your choice.
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This is the King's Ship. I assumed it was kept in better shape than to have guns corroded to green, especially since the model I'm building is the version of the ship as launched, not decades later. Were guns usually allowed to corrode that far?
 
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DARIVS ARCHITECTVS said:
This is the King's Ship. I assumed it was kept in better shape than to have guns corroded to green, especially since the model I'm building is the version of the ship as launched, not decades later. Were guns usually allowed to corrode that far?
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NMBROOK said:
Very nice indeed Kurt, I think the big thing is they blend with the cannons you have already fitted, if you had gone the verdigris route, then the would not have matched
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You could very well be right about keeping the ship in better shape than a merchant- or a fisherman.
What's on display nowadays is at best kept sheltered from the elements. And then it's also depending on how many people find it necessary to touch the canon.
If one would take the canons of the Batavia as an example; they're definitely not kept in pristine condition and have a rather dark grey to black appearance. But it's impossible to say for certain what colors canons would have had in those days, plus what @NMBROOK wrote, the preferred colors for your cannons better match the already fitted ones.
 
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