I build the Potemkin Battleship from Modelarz

[Keds_Girl_Lala]

I have the nice Orel Potemkin kit. But it is also more complicated for me. Now I have been given the Maly Modelarz Potemkin. It is old but not so complicated. However, it has very bad color registration and fade ink. Also the paper that should be white is deeply yellow or ugly grey.

So, I have for about a week, been working on to fix the image so I can reprint the ship to build. It is not so complicated as the Aurora (I don't think?)...

So here is a sample of what I start with... You can see my problems:

1) color of paper itself
2) registration of the red is mistaken
3) the colors they are all mottled and not solid
4) The black it is not black and you can see overprint colors as around the blue port holes.
5) the paper itself it is mushy and spongy.




So now after many hours effort I have this:



I have reduce the model to just black and white only. Then, I use the best example of the color from the original ink and transfer it to the clean version. So the colors they are bright and clean now. When I print, I can see ok I like this or not... but it is easy to change a color now since the red is one red... the yellow it is one yellow.

There is about 9 sheet of parts for me to recolor. I estimate perhaps it take me two hours per sheet some time. I can progress in a certain amount and then find what I do is not what I need so I have to start anew. But I have three fourths of it finish now.

[OldTroll]

Your re-colored version is probably better than the original was when it was new! I may have to try this procedure on a few of my 20+ year old Maly Modelarz models. I will be watching this with interest.

[Tim Crowe]

It's a shame the film is in black and white. Apart from that it's a good source of detail shots.

Tim

[Keds_Girl_Lala]

Thank you! It is much effort. It has taken me a lot of time so I have not make anything since I finish the Coleoptere. But I have also been ill some weeks. This will fix some issued I have when I try the Aurora like the color of the parts not being the same when the sides they were in three pieces each and each one was not the same!

[THE DC]

Looks excellent. Good improvement!

I'd comment more, but I've got this strange PM just now to translate....


The DC

[Wilfried]

Hello Lala,

good reproduction of black and white! Very well done and sharper than the old Maly ... but take a look at the deck bleached teak and the hull red ... reducing of red and yellow should be better ... just my only 2 cents ..

with lovely greetings
the Wilfried

[Keds_Girl_Lala]

Yes I know the color is not per a real ship really but it is per the model. As I say, when I print the page I can adjust the color then if I feel it is too bright. I found already once I make some colors too subtle. They look ok on my computer but as I print them, they come out much different. Firstly I wanted not to change the model but to make the model as it SHOULD have been when it was printed with the colors that was intended for it.

Plus I have the nice Orel model if I want fancy color. I think some parts here that Maly Modelarz has for white they should be cream color.

[Wilfried]

Hello Lala,

I'm not supposed to critisize your idea, that I now understand; you like to give an old Maly the look that a Maly have to be. Fine!

With lovely greetings
the Wilfried

[Keds_Girl_Lala]

Oh it is not criticism. I just explain my process. First I make it look as it was intended... then, if I want it is now easier to change a color.

[Keds_Girl_Lala]

I look now today at some other interpretation of the Potemkin. I feel the chimney and perhaps the bottom of the masts they are a peach color. The Orel kit it is this way. I notice (I do not like the idea) that Orel they make the wood deck and the chimney the same color all. I will study the Potemkin instructional drawing and determine the number for the parts to tint with peach color instead of white. I think also the model it has the turrets in white but they will be black.