GPM Prince of Wales, 1/200 waterline model

[Longbow]

Thanks Eatcrow, Michael.
Your positive comments are very appreciated !

I tried to bring life to the water using the drybrush technique with lighter shades of the base colour. Lightened the original color it with blue and white pigments.
The paints I use are from the local DIY, and a flat brush. See the first pic.

The second pic shows the first drybrush touch, the third the third and final touch.

The last pics show the colours in daylight. Strange enough the camera 'makes' the colours a lot more blueish than the colours I see with the eyeball mark one

Next episode: the finishing of the Prince with the planes, sidestairs and 1/200 figures.

[lancer525]

Klaas:

Superb work. Just fantastic.

You artist. Me builder.

[nighthawk78]

Excellent model Klass, the way you created the water texture makes the model just that extra bit better!!
NH78

[Michael Mash]

Hello Klaas,
You captured the look of the water quite well.
So your Prince looks excellent.
Mike

[Didier]

Hi Klaas,

A very nice battleship you built there. Thank you for the course about "representing the sea" underneath a waterline model.

Didier

[marco1971]

Great work with the water!

Marco

[Erik Zwaan]

Hello Klaas,

I'm sorry to not have checked out this great thread before, it's very, very impressive. Especially the water is as real as it can get... The Prince of Wales (and the Repulse), sunk off the Malayan coast near Kuantan, by Japanese bombs in December 1941, ultimately leading to the fall of Singapore. After all these years, you brought the ship back again, hats off! And nice company for your Mosquito, of course ...

Best regards,
Erik

[Papercut]

Amazing, I agree, you have brought her or him back too life.
The sea scape just flips my propeller.
I have a WAK 1/200th Dunkerque that I want to do the same with, displayed just the same as you have done with yours.
Thanks for the inspiration.
Again, beatiful and the fig's, where do you guys come up w/these things.
Rick

[Longbow]

Since last time I've been busy with the figures.
It's strange that the are 1/200 figures for the German, Us and Japanese navies, but not for the UK navy...
So I bought the 1/200 train figures from ebay like lancer suggested.
Selected the figures that could be used. So no children, women The sailors would have welcomed the women I guess but not the children
To give them a cap I used tiny bits of Tamiya putty and filed the caps into shape. For the Atlantic the caps would be dark blue with white covers.
Painted the figures with paints from the Games Workshop (blue, black, flesh, white, ink)

I wanted the walrus being lifted into (or from) the water by a crane. I did not have a clue where the cable lifting points were. Internet helped :

So I tried to create it as truthfully as my clumsy hands allowed.

Next created one of the side stairs with the lifting davit for it. Not in the kit, but it is visible on PoW pictures.

And created a new nameplate for it because I did not like the plate in the kit. Also added the the commission date and the date The Prince was sunk. It was a very short timespan in which the Prince actually was commissioned...

[Michael Mash]

Hello Klaas,
The crew looks great, particularly as surrounded by all that giant equipment.
I also like the way you suspended the aircraft over the side.
Mike