Ship Painting

Drybrushing a lighter tint of the base (gray) color for the lighter areas, and a dark wash (darkened base color or perhaps greatly diluted black paint) to deepen the shadows.

But - Ships very seldom look like this, in my opinion. Especially modeling the Arizona right before Pearl Harbor, it was peacetime and about all the deck gangs had to do was paint ... holystone the wooden decks ... paint ... chip rust ... paint ... did I mention paint? His overall construction is quite good and I like the display he came up with, but the weathering is just too much for my tastes.

Is it just me or do all the scale figures on that ship look like Flat Stanley?  Oh wait!  They are!  Haha.

So have you guys used them before and made them actually look like people?

*chuckles* They look like Flat Stanley because they are kissing cousins of same.

The figures are flat because that is the way they are on the photoetched fret. In 1/700 scale you can get away with using these little guys, because even bulked up with some white glue or thick paint, they're still only about 1/8-inch tall ... at 1/350 scale, though, I agree that they start looking kind of silly, especially from less than a foot away.