I build the Potemkin Battleship from Modelarz

[jyduchene]

I don't post often, or often enough. I have to say you have taught me several important things in a brief space. I have photoshop elements and I believe I can do most of what you have shown. Thank you for the informantion. You clearly know your stuff. I have no advise only appreciation. John

[redhorse]

Thanks Lala, that's really helpful. Now I just have to figure out how to get a good scan that actually will print at the size I want it too...

[Yu Gyokubun]

Thanks Lala for the specific explanation. I'll save this tutorial in my HD as a bible of recoloring

Yu

[mabrown]

Thanks so much for the excellent tutorial Lala!

[Golden Bear]

That IS worth saving for people, Lala. Nicely done.

If I may add... In PSP there is also a "Color Replacer" function where you choose the background color to be replaced and the foreground that you want it to be. It works otherwise like a paint brush except that it ignores everything outside the range of color that you select.

The reason that I mention this is that I find it handy to use in company with the Fill function. Sometimes I just go quickly around the inside edge of a region that I want to fill, in case there are those gaps that she showed. Then I fill in the void.


Carl

[ct ertz]

I just download Gimp from the link on Ecardmodels.com and I am going to play around for a bit. Thank you for the great info!

[Keds_Girl_Lala]

Thank you all. I find Gimp myself by just Googling it. I will try the PSP tool also. But for now I can not print thing right and I fear I might have to start over again and keep track of size better. In that case I don't know if I will bother...

[Keds_Girl_Lala]

Now I start with the template for the hull of the ship. I had buy some 1mm, 2mm etc card from Paper Model Store but I do not like it. I find it is soft and mushy like the back of a paper page tablet. So I use 1/32 inch Bass Wood. It match the size of the notches on the print template very well and it is more firm, obviously. I fix the paper to the wood with spray cement. Even being hard, it cuts not so difficult .

[barry]

Cornflake packets laminated to 150 gsm hard card work very well

[BARX2]

I've used thin balsa, but not basswood. I would think it would be too hard to cut. But it definitely will be strong!