ship building advice?

Jeff:

Greetings:

I don't build in 1/700 but 1/350. However, what I do is airbrush the entire hull first. Glue on the deck (s) and then airbrush the entire deck/major super structure what ever color the super structure is. Then I hand paint the deck and any items molded onto it then touch up where  different colors meet. I airbrush the pe items whatever color they should be, superglue them in place and then touch up by hand if needed.  Of course I paint separately any items that get glued in place such as turrets, aa guns, etc. This was the sequence I used when I built a conversion of Tamiya's Missouri into a Montana and I have pretty much followed it on other ships I have built. Some people do mask off the decks but I never have.

 

Sincerely

 

Michael Lacey  

 

 

Basically it varies from ship to ship.

I construct all the subassemblies and AB deck/horizontal structures, then haze/vertical structures. Put together and touch up. I leave all small parts on the sprue tree, IF the attachment point is the same as the 'glue" point, as I dont want to deal with paint stripping before assembly.

The first pass, I AB at right angles (say, only the horizontal surfaces) without masking the rest (vertical surfaces). Then I mask the painted areas and AB the vertical surfaces. My goal is to get good enough at AB that I can just "point and shoot" and not worry about masking (only right angles). But not yet :)

 HEY skrooby --- Glad you,re doing this ship .  I would imagine that doing a/c you have an airbrush . Definitely, spray the larger parts and go from there. If you decide to do any the measures of camo make sure of the time period , and go for it !!!!  tankerbuilder