Pastels
Before the sub-assemblies were glued into place on the main hull, the whole was weathered using artistes pastels, making sure to accentuate the surface detail on the model, giving it a realistic appearance, but remember the ship was fairly new so not too much dirt..!
After this the assemblies were glued into place and the model was ready for basing up and its seascape.
Seascape
After masking the edges of the finished base to protect them the area of the seascape was scored heavily with a knife. After the model was glued in place on the base the messy part could begin. The seascapes in my models are essentially painted Polyfiller (interior) DIY filler designed to fill cracks in walls etc. It comes as a white powder and needs to be mixed with tap water; I tend to mix it thick so you can sculpt it using an old butter knife. The filler is applied using the previously mentioned butter knife, when one side of the ship/base is covered the water is sculpted to look like waves etc. Any excess is carefully removed from the edge of the base and the ship’s hull, the latter using a dampened flat brush. Then the process is repeated on the other side. All of this is already listed in the SMN Techniques Bank.
After drying overnight the base edges and any blemishes were gently sanded away using a piece of sandpaper. The Brilliant white seascape needs to be primed and this is done by hand painting a coat of Paynes Grey’s acrylic paint (bluey/grey). Again once dry the airbrush comes out, and the first colour is XF-17 Sea Blue, followed by XF -18 Medium Blue. The final two coats are want bring the sea to life beginning with XF-2 Flat White to pick in the crests of the waves and disturbance in the water and X-22 Clear.
Figures
For the figures I used Gold Medal Models set number 700-17 naval figures set, actually about two sets (100 figs per brass sprue). These were primed in XF-2 Flat White and then picked by hand using Vallejo Model Colour paints. When dry they received a light Raw Umber wash and when dry were cut from sprue and glued into place on the ship using superglue.
Take a look at the images below:
