Very nice Laszio.

You may want to carefully take of the black where it is has bled, with fine glass-paper before paining, since yellow over black doesn't cover too well. You can then touch up the black or yellow where necessary.

Most people know it a sandpaper. Sorry.

useful tip for masking,,,,,all the yellow is done,, so when you mask it up for the black strips you first go down the edge of the masking with the yellow and let it dry,,,,this seals the edge to be painted back and any bleed into the yellow will be yellow......
cheers Willz

That does look rather excellent. Great work.

Mark

Nice update. Doing a great job.

Chris

Thanks for all the positive comments, well appreciated.

Issue 75 continued

- Second coat of black applied yesterday.
- Today I removed the masking tape and corrected the tiny bleeding around corners and the wriggles.
- Beakhead also painted black.

I declare the result as a very successful task on both side of the ship.
Sorry if this sentence doesn't make any sense.
Very please with the result of the most scary task so far for me.

Thanks Alan,
It was still the most scary thing so far on the build, even if the end result looks like that it was an easy-peasy job.

Thanks for the good comments.

Issue 75 continued
- all the gun ports lining painted red ochre, including the ones on the quarterdeck
- entry port linings painted brown.

Now painting is finished for a while... phew...

Issue 75 continued.

Started to work on the chainwales.

- Inside edges shaped to fit to hull
- holes drilled for eyebolts and supports
- they painted black
- eyebolts and blocks fitted
- started to wrap the deadeyes with brass wire. It took a while to figure out the correct technique because the wire was keep snapping even after a half twist around the deadeye. After finding the right method was able to made quite a lot of them. But now I had to stop because my fingers are numb.

I had a look few pictures from other build diary, also from the real ship and I noted that the deadeyes are actually black. I double checked the magazine (and the official build) and it will paint black only the wires underneath the chainwales but will leave the deadeye natural.
I'm thinking that I'll paint them black too to have a more authentic look. I'll prepare all with the brass wires, also making the straps and all together with the supports and the "8-shaped" links I'll hang them onto a piece of thread and spray them first with primer and then with matt black.

Very productive day today.

- After primer dried deadeyes sprayed with black paint
- while waited to get it dry the gallery support blocks were shaped and fitted
- rear of gallery support sanded to shale
- deadeyes fitted to the chainwales, closing strips will be fitted tomorrow.