USS Buchanan completion work
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Aghis BarberopoulosI think the water effect looks very cool! In fact I like your entire composition and especially the figures. The pier looks very good and don't be afraid, I think you can make it a lot more dirty 😉
Frank SpahrIn fact I just did 😉)) I applied some dirty washes to the pier, and am right now waiting for that to dry before I blend things in with a flat coat.
I´ll keep you posted says
Frank
Frank SpahrWell, folks, I called it quits now after adding a mooring line and some figs, plus some lengths of rope on deck. Surely not correct, and probably too strong a line, but the best I was able to do with my supplies, and looking through my reference images I don´t find it too much out of place. Anyway - another project completed and some new lessons learned and hopefully remembered for the next project.
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I built this smart and cutting edge kit about a year ago, but only put it on a generic and rather bland harbour water surface for the time being. I had intended to present the ship as per the historical photographs when she transported Gen. MacArthur to the USS Missouri for the Japanese surrender on 2 September, 1945.
Well, I didn?t find the right figures for a fully manned and paraded vessel, so I just added some people fore and aft and on the bridge, and am trying to depict the ship as she leaves a pier, with some disturbed water showing.
In the beginning I only added the disturbed water using acrylic gel and some drybrushing with white. That turned out too bright and not yucky enough (harbour water - need I say more?) So I added a greenish sickly wash which improved things a lot.
Yet still things looked incomplete and incomprehensible - until my friend Dirk Mennigke suggested adding a sliver of pier. I had originally tried to avoid that, fearing it would be too small and look bad.
But now I?m glad I did