Advice ref painting a plastic ship deck

[BattleshipBob]

I just searched for "HMS Belfast London" on Google earth and zoomed in on the image. Some interesting colour variations.
Pete

There's also a picture of Nelson or Rodney looking forward at the three triple turrets. The variation in the planking is very interesting.

 

[BattleshipBob]

I saw a build of a 1/350 ship (maybe the Graf Spee?) by a guy called Guido Hopp. He started with one colour then masked about 10% individual planks at random and sprayed them a slightly different colour - and mask another 10% then repeat until the last lot of masking.

The result was truly amazing but that's a LOT of work!

PS He had a major disaster with his build when a shelf collapsed on it just before it was finished. He must have been totally gutted!

Saw that myself on YouTube, it was Graf Spee and a lot of work and after that the shelf!!

 

[spanner570]

I saw a build of a 1/350 ship (maybe the Graf Spee?) by a guy called Guido Hopp. He started with one colour then masked about 10% individual planks at random and sprayed them a slightly different colour - and mask another 10% then repeat until the last lot of masking.

Not single planks, but that is more or less wot I do. But the easy way....With a brush! Wink, wink!

Ivor Caulkin Gunn