Whassup Young Gun! Looks like you’re ‘sub’-mmersed in your build again, like your base board, wax on wax off rite. I found out what “oil canning” is, go figure, never knew there was a name for it. Well goes to show an old f . . um fella can learn something new. 
Cajun
I definitely am 'sub’mmersed in this build Terry! I just finished the Base and Im very happy with it and I think the sub will look great on it!
And a close up of the decal.
I’ve finished 20 rows of vertical rivets so far, and be warned I’ve only done about 1/6 of the ship and just 20 rows took 1 hour 15 min… so if anyone decides to not buy the Eduard set and rivet it this way you will be here for a while. Im fairly happy with how they look though. I just keep telling myself im one step closer to paint! 
I just finished the rivets today, it took about 9 hours total for this one side… I’m planning on finishing all the details in the next few days and start paint in a couple days! I probably wont post much after Christmas for a week or two, as I will be working on my 1/72 HMCS Snowberry.
Some progress! I’ve painted about 75% of the Cobia. It still needs some touch ups but I think it generally looks good, except for the black which will be post shaded over with a very dark gray, but that will have to wait because my airbrush broke and I’m waiting for a replacement. Hopefully next update I will have some pics.
I have a cheaper model of a Master airbrush. It works just fined still after 8 years of use.
Mark 
The hull is painted! Im fairly happy with the finish and cant wait to start weathering once I paint some small deck parts. on the dark gray on the back I made some streaks and splotches in the gray with a paintbrush to show that the boat has been fairly well maintained as the crew are repainting some areas. I’m currently on winter holiday from school so I have 2 more weeks of bench time!
Hi Ezra, That is really looking good!
Cheers,
Thanks Joe! No pics but Ive made progress spraying the black with dark grays to get a faded effect. Now I just need to paint some details and then on to my favorite part of any build… weathering! 
A little progress. Ive done about 40% of the weathering on the left side, and Im very happy with the results!
The white dot filter need a little more blending then I will be done with the black color modulation. the rust you can see on the panels is rust colored water colors, I still need to do a bit more blending of it on the deck. The wood part of the deck was dry brushed with multiple wood colored paints to give it a worn, chipped look. I also started the chipping on the grey parts. Overall Im happy with the results but remember there’s still a lot more work to be done.
And here shows you what a couple oil paints and acrylics can do
Panzer,
Nice effect. I would believe the hull would look faded due to the salt water.
Mark
Masterful work
Thanks Fred!
After a couple months of looking at the Cobia on display case I decided to (Temporarily) revoke my evil armor ways and work on something salty. Here are some photos of where the Cobia is at currently.
And here is a picture of it on my bench ready for more weathering.
Im about to use another white and brown dot filter.
The 1/72 Tornado gives a sense of scale to how big Gatos were.
Finish weathering
Add rigging
Buy, build and paint a 1/72 Mk.40 wet mount 5" deck gun and two 40mm Bofors
Add clear parts
Add flags
Hopefully I will have another update soon!
Well done! Looks great.
You’ll need an angled flight deck though if you plan on using jet aircraft …
She looks great, Ezra! Looking forward to your next update. And yes, she’s a big ship - both in scale, and in reality.
Ezra,
fine work and you’re almost there!
Very nice weathering - you ‘armor guys’ are typically better at this than most of us ‘ship guys’. I tried my hands a little bit at it, but most of my ships look like directly from the shipyard… I know you can achieve really nice effects, even in 1/350 or even smaller, but with my last models it was that I simply was afraid to apply some dirt and rust on my almost finished model for fear to mess it up…
Cheers
Jan
Thanks guys!
but with my last models it was that I simply was afraid to apply some dirt and rust on my almost finished model for fear to mess it up…
Jan, that’s why I use almost exclusively oil paints. They are super forgiving so if your unhappy with the results you can simply just wipe them off.
Todays update is fairly small… on a large ship!
I worked a little on the weathering applying some oil paints to get a rusty chipped appearance.(This is only the first application.)
(sorry for the blurry photo.)
I then added some larger chips to the sail in preparation for some rust streaks coming down from them.
I also tried something new, using different grey oil paints for speckling to break up the monotonous black hull.(To give the look of fading and small chips.) Later I will add rust colored specks as well as some green ones.
I also ordered a 5" Mk.40 deck gun from shapeways.
I can see the Cobia sailing from drydock in the near future! (3-4 months… 
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Very nice job on that weathering!..she is looking GREAT!
Cheers,
