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San Francisco by Amati

LisaDouglas

LisaDouglas

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Hello Everyone, Long time listener, first time caller…
Staring on this today, I’ve dabbled a bit here and there in modeling but mostly my hobbies have been Quilting, embroidery and needle felting, and portrait drawing, I’m excited to get started and see where this goes, Wish me good will Lisa

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LisaDouglas said:
Hello Everyone, Long time listener, first time caller…
Staring on this today, I’ve dabbled a bit here and there in modeling but mostly my hobbies have been Quilting, embroidery and needle felting, and portrait drawing, I’m excited to get started and see where this goes, Wish me good will Lisa

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Lisa,

Welcome! Good luck with the San Francisco. That is where I am from originally, but home is where the Navy leaves you . . . If you have any questions, just ask! This is a friendly forum.

Bill
 
I acquired two kits the complete older version and a newer incomplete different one that I believe is the second release both are the San Francisco, I’m incorporating things from both as the second kit has much nicer components and somewhat different instructions, I want this ship to look old and weathered, ultimately I want to build a ghostly Flying Dutchman and of course the Black Pearl, any suggestions as to how to achieve a weathered look would be appreciated, I have some ideas but not quite sure how to go about it
 
There are several Black Pearl build logs on the forum. Some with different degrees of weathering.
Check out the build logs and that should give you lots to think about.
You might also do search for weathering here on the forum.
 
rtibbs said:
There are several Black Pearl build logs on the forum. Some with different degrees of weathering.
Check out the build logs and that should give you lots to think about.
You might also do search for weathering here on the forum.
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That’s kind of what got me here, I looked at BP builds and fell in love with the ZHL sealed version, hopefully that will be my next, thank you for the advice, I ordered some grey and brown acrylic washes and paints for weathering, so I’m excited to experiment with those,
 
Hi Lisa,

The most extreme 'weathering' that I am aware of comes from our forum member Shelk. He makes videos so these might function as tutorials for you on your build. Best of luck!

Here is his Black Pearl - but there are others if you do a search using his name...

Black Pearl 1/48 Open hull

edit: My plans are finally available https://tinyurl.com/mpt5u435
shipsofscale.com
 
LisaDouglas said:
That’s kind of what got me here, I looked at BP builds and fell in love with the ZHL sealed version, hopefully that will be my next, thank you for the advice, I ordered some grey and brown acrylic washes and paints for weathering, so I’m excited to experiment with those,
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Welcome aboard! I’m a newbie, busy with my first log. So you’re not alone.

About weathering: I do have some experience, albeit with plastic kits. But what I learned is to try and test on a separate model. And as you have two, you could build the test ship to some extend and use that for all your testing. Once you know what’s what, you simply apply the best result to your ‘real’ model.

Whatever, have fun.
 
also from my side a warm welcome here on board of our forum
I will follow your log with big interest
BTW: is this a Chihuahua? I have also one at home, very clever, sometimes too clever .....
 
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