The model car is on hiatus until the weather turns to Spring. I have to spray the lacquers outside. The carrier is all being done in acrylics so I can airbrush it in the workshop. Still on my wish list is an outside vented spray booth so I can spray anything indoors.
The ship is going to be a doozy. Here's just a taste of what's going on. The kit's guns were too fat and breaking so I made my own out of 0.032" brass tapered with a file and sanding stick.
The fantail had to be painted early since it was inaccessible when the over head stuff went in.
My order of hi-def photo-etched came today so the real work begins in earnest. The island looks like this now.
It's going to look like this when I done (or at least that's the plan). The PE should reproduce most of these details if I can pull it off.
If you're interested in following along with this, you can see it here:
http://cs.finescale.com/fsm/mo...ts/f/7/t/177660.aspx
I'm doing a build thread on it on three different forums, Fine Scale Modeler's one seems like the easier to navigate.
