Looking Like A Ship Now

Hull is now painted and decals are on. Next will be a coat of flat to seal everything and then I can start working on the upper decks.

I have added the window decals that I have made.  I used Bare Metal Foil's Expert Choice clear decal sheets and ran them through a laser printer.  I didn't clear coat the decals on the sheet as my first two attempts coating with Krylon Clear coat and then Microscale Decal film resulted in cracking and curling decals respectively.

It's Taking Shape

So here is the Queen with the main structures finished and in place.  The window templates have been taped in place to test the fitment.  As mentioned earlier, I will print up some decals for the finished model. 

The brown paper is meant to act as templates to cut out the adhesive wood deck material.  The smaller details such as vents and lifeboats have not been added yet and will be done later.

Next up will be painting the hull red, white and black then painting and decaling the upper deck structures.  After that, the wooden deck can be laid down and all other details will go on top of that.

Windows v1.0

Since I am scratch building all of the upper deck structures, I am using decals for the windows instead of cutting each of the holes.  I have made these on a computer with Corel Photo Paint and will print them on a laser printer on decal paper and clear coat them with Krylon UV Clear spray.

It was a pretty time consuming process, measuring, printing and fitting the decals.  I would say they are about 75 percent accurate for size and placement.