Hello people,
I realize I haven't been around here for ages, sorry for that, but now I'm back :)
As the first model to present you with my return I'm building Revell's 1/50 Vikingship (although, I remember reading somewhere once that the scale isn't correct). I started this model about a week ago, and although there isn't a large partslist, it goes slowly due to my choice of paints. I have decided to experiment with artist's oil paints instead of the classic modelpaints. In fact the only modelpaints used on this model will be Tamiya White Primer and AS-7 (Neutral Grey). All other paints are oilpaints, mainly Italian Earth (aka Sienna Natur), a touch of Burned Sienna Light, a touch of Burned Umber, and a touch of Raw Umber.
This is the boxart :
The sprue containing two halves of the hull :
The two halves put together :
And with the deck in them :
A few supports glued onto the deck (the mast hasn't been glued yet, neither is the deck glued into the hull atm) and all have been given a layer of white primer and neutral grey (the latter isn't really obvious from the pictures due to poor lighting) :
First I planned to do deckplank per deckplanck with the oilcollors, but that wasn't to my sattisfaction, so after a couple of planks a decided to do the whole deck as one piece instead (with the exeption of the blocks holding mast and supports (because I will do them a bit darker later on)).
Yesterday I started on one half of the hull, and put the hull in the oven to reduce the drying time of the oilpaints a bit :
