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Posted by airtrans Crash on Friday, September 26, 2008 8:31 PM
 silentmodeler wrote:

anyone know how to make a corals or stuffs that grew on the ships?  Im not sure what its called.  will putty do? or there other ways?  let me know  thanks

I'll dig through for pics of thicker coral growth, but if it is a deep wreck (past about 90 ft) your large coral growths will be hard to find because of the depth and light... with a ship model I would imagine you could probably recreate coral with light texturing, rather than trying to model actual individual coral growth.
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Posted by smokinguns3 on Friday, September 26, 2008 7:02 PM

This is how i did mine shot the model with future sprinkled sifted dirt onto model then used rustall until you get the look you want shoot it with future again and sprinkle with static gras of varius colors and then seal it.

 

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Posted by namrednef on Friday, September 26, 2008 4:08 PM
 silentmodeler wrote:

anyone know how to make a corals or stuffs that grew on the ships?  Im not sure what its called.  will putty do? or there other ways?  let me know  thanks

Maybe the stuff the Armor folks use for zimmerit?

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Posted by Bodge on Friday, September 26, 2008 2:35 PM
Putty seems a good idea i would mix in different colours and practice on some old plastic until your happy with the look.
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Posted by silentmodeler on Friday, September 26, 2008 2:29 PM

anyone know how to make a corals or stuffs that grew on the ships?  Im not sure what its called.  will putty do? or there other ways?  let me know  thanks

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Posted by silentmodeler on Wednesday, September 24, 2008 12:08 AM

HvH  Thanks for the answer smiles   

Crash   thanks for the pictures  its helped a lot.  It does give me some ideas  and looking forward for the fishing pictures. 

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Posted by airtrans Crash on Tuesday, September 23, 2008 4:35 PM
Just like HvH is saying, in tropical (or even sub tropical) areas where coral is abound, the ship is coated amazingly fast. I will dig up the pictures of a sunken fishing boat I dove and see if there was any paint visible on it.
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Posted by Hans von Hammer on Tuesday, September 23, 2008 10:59 AM
 silentmodeler wrote:
 Hans von Hammer wrote:

There won't be any paint after 50+ years, so why bother?

 

is Pearl Harbor water is freshwater or saltwater

Saltwater

Hammer~  thanks for feedback abt water   and ur right abt color   normally what color should it look like after its been sitting there for 50 or + years?  since i have some resources and pictures   they looks like rusty/brownish/blueish color so im not exactly sure.

 

Without all the stuff that lives on the wreckage, overall colors are rust... Saltwater corrodes steel quite rapidly, giving way to rust in a hurry... 

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Posted by airtrans Crash on Tuesday, September 23, 2008 7:35 AM
main guns

superstructer, it used to be attatched to the rest of the ship but fell off in recent years

.50 caliber machinegun mount 

 

 

all divers are either Active Duty military or retired military, I assure you no divers penetrate this wreck as the USS Emmons still contains the remains of both the crew members who went down with her, as well as the souls of the 5 kamakazi pilots who hit her. She was a gleaves class destroyer converted into a fast mine sweeper. She was sent to protect a struck sister ship off the north point of the island here on Okinawa when she was hit by five kamikazis during a battle. 

 please retain respect for the brave men who died fighting by keeping any political opinions of situations dealing with her sinking. 

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Posted by airtrans Crash on Tuesday, September 23, 2008 7:27 AM

 

 more to come.. these are depth charges, mine sweeping bouys and AA gear

 

 

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Posted by silentmodeler on Tuesday, September 23, 2008 3:57 AM
 Hans von Hammer wrote:

There won't be any paint after 50+ years, so why bother?

 

is Pearl Harbor water is freshwater or saltwater

Saltwater

Hammer~  thanks for feedback abt water   and ur right abt color   normally what color should it look like after its been sitting there for 50 or + years?  since i have some resources and pictures   they looks like rusty/brownish/blueish color so im not exactly sure.

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Posted by Hans von Hammer on Sunday, September 21, 2008 12:15 AM

There won't be any paint after 50+ years, so why bother?

 

is Pearl Harbor water is freshwater or saltwater

Saltwater

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Posted by silentmodeler on Saturday, September 20, 2008 5:13 PM

airtrans crash

it would be nice if u can send me the pictures of USS Emmons since im planning to do either USS Arizona or Yorktown or Bismark. 

I am wondering if i wanna to built sunken ships,  should i do the normal color before its sink then weather it to make it looks like its been sitting there for 50 or plus years? 

And also is Pearl Harbor water is freshwater or saltwater  let me know thanks.

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Posted by airtrans Crash on Tuesday, September 16, 2008 9:04 AM
i have pictures of the USS Emmons and how the environment 120ft below in a tropical environment has treated her if you are interested, also pictures of a flamethrower, BAR and .45 and what happened to them in shallow. let me know and I'll post
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Posted by Hans von Hammer on Tuesday, September 16, 2008 7:48 AM

THere's a thread here about it..

/forums/857219/ShowPost.aspx

I remember another thread not too long ago that showed other stuff underwater as well... try the search function using keywords like "underwater Dioramas", and "sunken aircraft"...

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sunk ship/aircraft
Posted by silentmodeler on Tuesday, September 16, 2008 2:18 AM

hey everyone

im trying to make a diorama of a sunk ships/aircrafts but the problem is im not very sure where to start.  I have the pictures and resources but i need some guide of how to built it such as color/weathering and so on.  any website or advices might be helpful  thanks

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