Dear all,
thank you for following and comments! And here is another quick update.
Filling and sanding the hull, especially the seams between the upper und lower hull halves, has come to an end. I masked the boot stripe around the hull.
Of course there will be some re-work to be done, especially around the stern section, but that’s ok.
And the hull red color is on.
18 mm Tamiya tape fixed along the original 5.9 mm boot stripe masking downwards covers most of the lower hull sufficiently for the grey upper hull painting. As for Gneisenau, the early German war scheme 50/51 (darker hull, lighter upper structure) is used, with XF 66 for the darker and XF 19 for the lighter parts. From all references I could get those colors are a good match. I did the research for Gneisenau several years ago and am now simply sticking to it.
And here’s the hull.
There will be several touch ups necessary, as expected. I’ll have to do some more masking around the stern as I’m not happy with the position of the boot stripe, then there is some bleeding - which reminds me, the last time I painted a hull is some five years ago…I probably should have discarded the masking tape sitting in my drawer and started a new roll of tape that I bought in between… But really nothing to be concerned about, all those fixes will be easily done, some with a normal fine brush, some with the airbrush.
Apart from those required touch ups - I am really happy about the result of my lengthy work on the upper/lower hull seam, that’s essentially invisible.
The little rough surface is hardly visible to the naked eye, as those pictures are showing it way bigger that it is…
And here one last picture of where Blücher stands for now, already much more looking like a warship’s hull. I hope to find some time next weekend, but that will mainly be all the required tech ups and fixes.
For now, als always, that you so much for following, looking in and alle comments,
and for now
Cheers
Jan
Si