Yann Solo, thanks for the link to your TAM 1/350 Bismark, you are amazing. I have modelled for over 20 years but never ships, but I am now right into it. What I am struggling with is I can't find any good articles on the web that have step by step, they all have high level build reviews. I am confused if you put the hull together and paint, paint the decking and then install it and paint everything in sub-assemblies and then install it. It seems with your Bismark you built everything up before painting.
I have the Trumpeter Hood and I am stuck on how to approach the building/painting process as ship building is new to me. I was thinking of building everything up and gluing it all together, filling sanding the deck seams around the edge of the hull or where ever there is a bad fit and then painting, masking, painting, etc, but I just don't know. Do ship modellers do a lot of brush painting? I am use to using my airbrush for everything.
One thing that sucks living in Ontario, Canada I have very few model shops, only one in my try city area and I can't get PE sets, only have MM, TAM, Gunze paint. Anything I order on line I have to pay exchange rate, shipping and I get killed with those expenses.