Talk:General Discussion/@comment-216.123.165.66-20150304151917/@comment-25938809-20150305180449

Thanks very much for the guide, I'll keep all of it in mind. The PE frets of a ship kit are some of the tiniest and most complex I've seen in modeling, and it seems like having a PE folder is mandatory - It's been a long time coming, but it looks like I'm finally gonna have to pick one up if I wanna get serious in the shipbuilding game.

As far as PE handrailings go... man, there are a whole lotta contact points on each "base" of the handrail. Could you explain your method of attatching the long PE handrail sections onto the deck? Using superglue, I can only imagine the process requiring surgical precision... cuz not only do you have to bend the rail to fit the ship, but also apply it quickly and cleanly - Messing up could result in a nasty ass globs of superglue on the deck. I've actually seem some modelers use thinned down white/wood glue, sometimes at the cost of the glue "washing" everywhere and reducing the deck's detail... not ideal.

Ah, I had a hunch that was the way to paint a ship. Airbrushing of a gray basecoat, a whole lotta washes/filters on top of that, along with some light handbrushing for detailed parts (90% drybrushing eh, wow). A few months back, I checked out a friend's Japanese modeling mag, and in it was an actual Kancolle model ship feature - There was a pretty sweet looking Ooyodo that was finished really nice, I should've taken a pic of it...