Hi my friends.
Thank you for your welcome comments.
I have made some progress so far. I have started to errect the forgotten abandoned wharf to be able to make the last touches on my Hansa.
Here the different steps and a little tutorial to make poles overgrown with algae and mussles:
The baseplate (40X40 cm/16X16 inch). The poles are just put into place, to proof if everyting looks good. They are attached to the base with blutack.
In the rear area is still a quay wall missing, but that comes later.
The bridge will be made of different balsa wood profiles.
So that the wood grain also corresponds to the old, washed-out and weather-exposed environment, the wood is stressed with a steel brush with shortened bristles and smoothed with steel wool.
The whole thing is worked on until you are satisfied with the result.
Then the wood is painted gray and given a brown washing.
Now I have marked with tape the maximum water level at high tide.
I put classic hot glue one side.
Now I first sprinkle the middle section with sesame seeds and then the upper and lower sections with strained thyme.
Then the growth is brushed nice dark green.
After sufficient drying, the depths are emphasized with a dark wash.
The individual seeds are coarsely colored with a brush and XF17. Here you can still see the dark green, which looks like an algea coating.
The pearly spots are now painted with a very fine brush. For this I use XF2
Now the upper area is treated. Directly above the vegetation the still wet pole is painted with a mixture of dark green and black.
Then comes some AK simey grime to simulate algae growth.
The vegetation can still be emphasized with a bit of light green.
Here and there you can apply previously light green-colored hemp fibers as filamentous algae.
At the end, the lower part is stained with the dark green-black mixture. After this, the pile and the shells are brushed with gloss lacquer.
The next update will take some time, because I want to finish the entire bridge first.
Bye,
Manni
