Airfix HMS Hood

Kesa Tiho
Very nice build and painting, but i suggest using a technique boxmanbuilds uses, adding streaks of masking tape onto the deck, then painting one colour, taking some tape off, painting another shade, taking the final layer off and then you get a wood plank like look on the deck. Otherwise its a 10/10

David Orr
Thanks Kesa. If this was a larger scale and had better detail I would go the extra mile and make the decks look better. But it's a 50 year old kit with low detail and an awful lot of putty required to get it looking half decent. I'm not particularly into ship modelling. This was just one of my father's kits that I'm trying to finish off. The deck does actually look a bit better in real life. As mentioned in the pictures, the colours look a bit washed out due to my camera not picking them up very well.

Kesa Tiho
For a kit from the 70's it looks like it aged well, or your just really good at this hobby. I get the thing with the camera, ive lost plenty of good moments for a pic because of my camera not being good enough lol

David Orr
Kesa, the kit was actually better than I expected. The detail is minimal, and there was a lot of flash and sink holes or ejector marks in terrible places, but it mostly went together well. I'm currently building the Airfix Bismarck which my father bought at the same time as this one. It has quite a few parts that don't fit very well at all, but it's slowly coming together with the help of vast quantities of Tamiya putty.