Bismarck deck painting question

If you read Mike Ashey's book on detailing ships, (Kalmbach Pub.)you will get an excellent how to on all aspects of deck painting. I suggest at least that you airbrush the paint on. You can mask individual planks of the wood deck and use varying subtle shades of your base color to give the effect of planking. This is only feasible on 1/350 or larger scales. In 1/700 it is impossible in my experience to do this in which you would want to paint in a base color and drybrush in the direction of the planks to give the effect of planking. Good luck and show us some pics if you can.

im on the bismarck model myself (sons school project) i'm stuck over a few colors too.

 

 

Cant tell the sandy color as a deck (instructions say its brick red??) and the shades of grey used here. (Thats why i held the competition;)) 

check these links out.

http://www.german-navy.de/kriegsmarine/ships/battleships/bismarck/index.html

http://www.bismarck-class.dk/bismarck/bismarck_menu.html

http://www.kbismarck.com

 pavlvs makes a great point, but you also check out some rusty whites articles in fine scale modeler he has written several articles using this method of just using three different colors basically all the same color but each a little lighter then the first, placing masking tape down an airbrushing each color as layer, as you change each color your remove a layer of tape to get the planking look.  check out his website at www.flagships.com or check out the steel navy website, they have link to him.

good luck

capt wheeler

ddp59...Thanks for listing those links, the second one down 'Bismark-class.dk' is excellent! I never seen many of those photo's taken of the Bismark, it's a great reference site and will certainly come in handy when I start my build of the ship. I just need to cough up the big bucks for those WEM detail sets first..... bye,bye tax refund.

Scott

no problem as i have them in my favorites. teach & learn

I attended a model expo in Live Oak on Saturday and someone had the Hood on display.  You could tell he did a base-coat and then dry-brushed some other colors on it to bring out the deck panels....I counted 5 various shades.  I'm going to try this.  I have my base-coat down and I've applied a clear-coat so now I'll try the dry-brushing on the back, ( I painted the underside for this purpose ).  The builder did a great job on The Hood.  When I do the Hood though I think I'll use Lions Roar detail kit though.

Thanks for the help!

Cy