Ok, a week off work and a trip to Weymouth armed with my camera to take pix of working boats in the harbour.
Some of the boats were quite new and some looked like scrap iron. It was the newer boats i was interested in. These go out every day and showed some really nice weathering on them, they are all well kept and have to go through similar conditions that U-Boats would have had to endure.
All weathering so far has been done with MIG pigments mixed to a 'paint' with white spirits. This is then painted on using a fine brush and feathered out with a clean brush dipped into white spirit. All stains, drips and runs were added following period photo's and my pix of the boats in Weymouth. I'm aiming for a look of newish boat that has been put to some very hard work out in the Atlantic.
All the work seen here will be sealed under a coat of acrylic matt varnish, this will (should) tone down the effect somewhat, we'll see happens!
Comments welcomed.
Sav.
