I would base my build on what you’ve done. It looks stunning, should I use the same colors? I usually build cars, military, or my latest fav, commercial aircraft. Recently I’ve been buying a few ship models. I have yet unbuilt, the Cutty Sark, the Wanderer whaler, the USS Enterprise (Nimitz class) USS New Jersey, and now, the Robt. E. Lee.
if painting decks rust brown then paint bottom of deck with black primer so you can't see the brown through when it's lit. you got a lot of models to build.
Very nice work... the leds have a tendency to shine trough the plastic - this is most apparent at the wheelhouse, but also observable at other parts of the ship... To avoid this, the inside of the plastic panels can be covered with aluminium foil or thick dark paint to prevent the light from shining through...never the less this model is a remarkable achievement.....
You did a nice job building the kit. However River boats were mostly painted white, especially the Robert E. LEE. only the main deck would had been tan, or wood color. the rest of the ship was painted white, with red lettering , and the paddles hubs were white with red flukes. the tops of the cabin decks were dark grey as they collected the most debris from the stacks, which all stacks were black. even the masts were painted white at the bow. Mississippi River boats of today carry the same color scheme as the old boats of this era.
Very cool, captain. Are you in charge of the boat? I could be a passenger. Surely it drives good because it looks good. The lights are good for night. Captain, when do we sail?
When you light a model you need to paint the inside of the parts with a black primer so the light doesn't show through the plastic. It takes several coats. Also you need to fill all of the glue joints and seams so you don't have light leaks. The painted parts have a lot of lighting coming through the paint also as the paint is very thin. Otherwise good try at lighting a model. I just started working on this model now and with all the lighting and and light blocking involved the only places you will see light coming from is through the windows and fiber optics for the exterior lights. Nothing will be showing through the plastic. These are just tips for you if you decide to light a model in the future. I have many lit Star Trek and Star Wars models on my channel if you want to see how they look.
Don't take me wrong you did a good job on lighting it considering that a lot of parts don't fit properly and there is a lot of filing and sanding of parts. When you light a model and you only want light to show through the windows, we do what we call light blocking. You paint the inside of all parts black as many coats as it takes to not see the light through the plastic. Then you paint all the inside white to help to reflect the light. It is long and tedious work but when it is all done the lighting looks very nice. You also have to fill all the seems where the light shows through all the joints too. I am building this kit now and after 3 weeks am still in the process of doing all my light blocking and seam filling. I will do a video when it is finished in a few months. Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to you too.
I am thinking of getting this kit myself and so I appreciate you showing us your build. I like the lighting, well done.
Thank you Al! good luck with you kit... the lighting was a last minute thought.
Super gemacht, Captain! ;-) Auch die Lichter, sehr schön... ;-)
Du hattest Recht - genau wie die Mississippi Queen. XD
Hallo Captain Charty, wie geht's? Vielen Dank für den netten Kommentar Captain Charty..
awesome build i do have one and you makes me want to build mine well done
Thanks big ed.
Beautiful build! I recently bought this model at a model show, complete, unopened bagged parts, trashed box, 10 bucks. I couldn’t pass it up!
David. cool! made some mistakes putting this model together ( paint and one part )
I would base my build on what you’ve done. It looks stunning, should I use the same colors? I usually build cars, military, or my latest fav, commercial aircraft. Recently I’ve been buying a few ship models. I have yet unbuilt, the Cutty Sark, the Wanderer whaler, the USS Enterprise (Nimitz class) USS New Jersey, and now, the Robt. E. Lee.
if painting decks rust brown then paint bottom of deck with black primer so you can't see the brown through when it's lit. you got a lot of models to build.
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Very nice work... the leds have a tendency to shine trough the plastic - this is most apparent at the wheelhouse, but also observable at other parts of the ship... To avoid this, the inside of the plastic panels can be covered with aluminium foil or thick dark paint to prevent the light from shining through...never the less this model is a remarkable achievement.....
Hi! i should have painted to bottom black. i read.
Superb ShowboatFrankie Day models
You did a nice job building the kit. However River boats were mostly painted white, especially the Robert E. LEE. only the main deck would had been tan, or wood color. the rest of the ship was painted white, with red lettering , and the paddles hubs were white with red flukes. the tops of the cabin decks were dark grey as they collected the most debris from the stacks, which all stacks were black. even the masts were painted white at the bow. Mississippi River boats of today carry the same color scheme as the old boats of this era.
I could have done better if i had knowledge in painting the model. thank you!
Sehr schönes Modell prima Gruß Peter 😉
Danke Peter.
awesome job,
thank you John, very nice of you.
Very cool, captain. Are you in charge of the boat? I could be a passenger. Surely it drives good because it looks good. The lights are good for night. Captain, when do we sail?
HAHA! Thank you Zachary.
Cool vid :D
thank you.
When you light a model you need to paint the inside of the parts with a black primer so the light doesn't show through the plastic. It takes several coats. Also you need to fill all of the glue joints and seams so you don't have light leaks. The painted parts have a lot of lighting coming through the paint also as the paint is very thin. Otherwise good try at lighting a model. I just started working on this model now and with all the lighting and and light blocking involved the only places you will see light coming from is through the windows and fiber optics for the exterior lights. Nothing will be showing through the plastic. These are just tips for you if you decide to light a model in the future. I have many lit Star Trek and Star Wars models on my channel if you want to see how they look.
I had no idea that you had to paint it primer first. I'll remember it the next time. I will check out your channel, Merry Christmas Paul!
Don't take me wrong you did a good job on lighting it considering that a lot of parts don't fit properly and there is a lot of filing and sanding of parts. When you light a model and you only want light to show through the windows, we do what we call light blocking. You paint the inside of all parts black as many coats as it takes to not see the light through the plastic. Then you paint all the inside white to help to reflect the light. It is long and tedious work but when it is all done the lighting looks very nice. You also have to fill all the seems where the light shows through all the joints too. I am building this kit now and after 3 weeks am still in the process of doing all my light blocking and seam filling. I will do a video when it is finished in a few months.
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to you too.
it's all good Paul, no worries.
It looks nice lit up. Where and what type of LEDs did you use?
Hello Phil, I don't remember. I've had these for a couple of years now, but they were only like $6.00. Thank you for the nice comment.
Great Model. Was it a easy build
Not difficult but it takes time, such as rigging and the spokes on paddle wheels.
great model but the video focus loses the great detail work you've probably done - still sat threw and watched it though :-)
thanks redpopman. I could have done a little better work on the model.