5 Camouflage Method for the Airfix Warspite Masking and Painting plus Touch Ups and Dad jokes

After 18 months I finally get back to the Tribute Build for my late Father of the Classic Airfix 1/600 HMS Warspite battleship kit. In this video I tackle the camo scheme and show you my easy method to achieve it. Plus I touch up a few problems from last time and fill the video with waffle and bad Dad jokes.
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[@neilhughes9310]

From what I gather, the camouflage on Warspite was a mirror image of the opposite side. Very fortunate. I did the Roma, which was completely different both sides. 30 minutes masking then 1 minute painting, rinse and repeat. Worth it in the end. Great video, Harry. Like most others watching, I built this about 50 years ago.

[@HarryHoudiniModels]

More masks than Zorro… but worth it in the end.

[@anthonylichfield3540]

Cracking job you have made there mate 👍

[@HarryHoudiniModels]

Good on you Anthony… thanks for watching

[@panzerleader49]

Two steps forward, one step back. nice recovery from earlier disasters and what an advance !!

[@HarryHoudiniModels]

Just like waltzing… although no Matilda involved here

[@musoseven8218]

Wonderful work, cracking video. Something very therapeutic about ships, built them as a kid too👍✌️💜😊

[@HarryHoudiniModels]

Ships are made of simple things all combined to make a complex object. You can’t just build it, then paint it. That’s what I like. You make each thing as a model in itself.. then combine for the full effect.

[@musoseven8218]

@@HarryHoudiniModels I agree. I'm slowly building the ex Matchbox Corvette to make RC. It's a series of boxes atop (the hull is a challenge with those plates). I like model railways for the same reason, in 7mm/1' each item is a model in itself - hope I live as long as Methuselah though!😲😀✌️💜🤔🙄

[@HarryHoudiniModels]

I just hope my eyes hang in there long enough to see what I am scale modelling while I am still alive.

[@musoseven8218]

@@HarryHoudiniModels Bless you, I'm nearly sixty, wearing different specs for different things too. Having to use lightly adapted tools for disabilities etc. More strength to our elbows and eyes, model making keeps me just the right side of sane🤭😉💜✌️🙏🤞👍😊

[@stephenmcdonald7908]

You've done a great job on the old girl.

[@HarryHoudiniModels]

I think she deserved a scrub up Stephen. Thanks for commenting

[@syrmalcolm]

Very nice work there HH. Loving it. Thanks for sharing.

[@HarryHoudiniModels]

Thanks Mal 👍

[@BobMuir100]

Who didn’t know you would do the little brush strokes?! No one!! Lol Great stuff matey Bob England

[@HarryHoudiniModels]

Thanks Bob.. better strokes matey

[@BobbyG-bp9xr]

Hi Harry. Fantastic video as always mate, love how you make everything simple yet effective. It doesn't need to be complicated to work. The way you break the build down appeals to my way of modelling. A joy as always Harry, can't wait until the next one. Because I've been watching you and the diverse modelling subjects you show, I've managed to pick up the Airfix Vosper patrol boat as I loved your finding rare Airfix kits Video's. I think its one for the retirement stash! Anyhoo....... thanks for posting Harry, take care mate. Bobby

[@HarryHoudiniModels]

Good on you Bobby

[@cosmarendy8417]

Thanks Harry for sharing. I really am enjoying your wasprite video.

[@HarryHoudiniModels]

Good on you Cos… I am so happy to be back working on the kit. Hopefully I can complete her this month.

[@johnmaddox7432]

I like it Harry. Almost looks like an early digital scheme

[@HarryHoudiniModels]

Does that look John… early dazzle camo

[@rogerbowen5753]

Going great guns there. You're among the few channels that I don't switch off when an airbrush comes out. I discovered something a while back that gives me a flawless finish when I'm brush painting. They call it Midwinter Medium (Midwinter Games was where I got the recipe from.) It's a mix of matt medium (I used Liquitex), water and Vallejo Airbrush Flow Improver. Midwinter suggested Fairy Liquid, but, I found this made the paint tacky even when dry so I used the flow improver instead. I was initially going to bite the bullet and get a portable airbrush, but, this saved me from it. You can do what you like of course, but, I love what I can do with a brush. All too often people completely replace their brushes with them and their stuff looks like what it is, airbrushed. It doesn't look real. If you can use other means to get that realism back, it really enhances the models.

[@HarryHoudiniModels]

Use what ever you are comfortable with Roger. I didn’t airbrush for 50 years until a friend sent me one to try. Still happier with a hairy brush or even Posca paint pen for detailing, but the airbrush does give a nice smooth coat for big areas, now I have my mix and method worked out.

[@rogerbowen5753]

@@HarryHoudiniModels Yeah, you never stop learning in this hobby, keeps you going.

[@HarryHoudiniModels]

It is helping me keep most of my marbles in tact

[@rogerbowen5753]

@@HarryHoudiniModels Heheh, mine too!

[@MONTY-YTNOM]

I've been eying up the Belfast kit again, I did it as a kid and the memory is calling to me again :)

[@HarryHoudiniModels]

That kit has not aged well… but can still be built as a nostalgic exercise.. however the 1/350 Trumpeter Belfast is superb.

[@robertadamberry6487]

I have a phone with HMS warspite at the south mole Gibraltar ,, duing the Spanish civil war. great work, not just this model but all of them.

[@HarryHoudiniModels]

Thanks for commenting Robert

[@Yves95128]

Looking great, Harry👍🏻👋🏻

[@HarryHoudiniModels]

Thanks Yves 👍 It has been so much fun to remake this kit half a century later on.

[@Yves95128]

@@HarryHoudiniModels I know, I'm re-building the Matchbox armor collection 1/76 (with vignette) that I mistreated around 50 years ago also (I'm 59). They actually aged pretty well, it's fun and relatively quick to build.

[@billevans7936]

Nifty Kean Harry ....got my coffee and a kit ..all set ck video out

[@HarryHoudiniModels]

Go for it Bill

[@brianreardon159]

I knew 'rigging' would creep in somewhere ❤😂

[@HarryHoudiniModels]

Well I do like to tug on the strings Brian… but not much this time

[@Lambonights]

That looks amazing, Harry. 🙂

[@HarryHoudiniModels]

Thanks! 😀

[@paulcorrigan649]

Thats a lovely job Harry

[@HarryHoudiniModels]

Thanks Paul… I am pretty chuffed with the result myself

[@paulcorrigan649]

@HarryHoudiniModels you should be. It's fantastic. We had a picture of the Warspite on the bulkhead at Dartmouth and this camo is very accurate

[@HarryHoudiniModels]

Great to hear ;)

[@stevenanderson236]

Looks great!

[@HarryHoudiniModels]

Thanks matey

[@ziggywolinski8002]

I use the brand Frogtape to cover large areas. Comes in a round plastic container with a yellow lid (delicate surface. Works a treat and doesn't pull off the paint like the blue painter's tape. Great video. Enjoyed it a lot.

[@HarryHoudiniModels]

Thanks for the tip… now I need to find some friendly frogs…

[@ziggywolinski8002]

@@HarryHoudiniModels I found it in Bunnings

[@alisteraitken2149]

Looking good Harry!

[@HarryHoudiniModels]

Why thank you Alister

[@nedlooby7419]

Always wanted this one even in the red box loved the artwork still got the iron duke for Christmas instead now i have the 350 scale

[@HarryHoudiniModels]

There are better kits, but for me the nostalgia and personal connection to this classic Airfix kit give me more enjoyment. And at the end of the day isn’t that what we want out of a hobby Ned?

[@robertgrimsted877]

Looking brilliant harry I’ve got the trumpeter 1/700 warspite plus got a resin white ensign one in 1/700 using that colour printer sorted it Loved the vid 😀

[@HarryHoudiniModels]

Good on you Robert… thanks for watching

[@beckersmodels]

I think i need to build a Warspite!

[@HarryHoudiniModels]

You can…. I have a spare kit here…

[@george_364]

Looking good.

[@HarryHoudiniModels]

Thank you George

[@bilgerat7694]

Nice work as always, you should have a look at Aussie modellers live you might have a laugh.

[@HarryHoudiniModels]

Yes Becker has mentioned them… I think they go live at an awkward time for me, usually when I am trying to complete shooting and editing my video for the week. So much to do, so little time these days.

[@petermillecento4906]

I think that my carpet monster, after all these years of modelling, have a full belly...

[@HarryHoudiniModels]

I keep replying to this but the nannybots keep hiding my advice on cleaning a rug!

[@zzzyxwv]

I built it in the sixties too😅💪

[@HarryHoudiniModels]

Well done matey

[@lesgl]

Very nice..top job

[@HarryHoudiniModels]

Thanks Les

[@MrGoldenV]

Looks amazing it's a lovely ship. Will you be adding the PE railings ?

[@HarryHoudiniModels]

The railings will be the only photo etch I will add to this build. Luckily I found some in in 1/600 a few years back.

[@MrGoldenV]

@@HarryHoudiniModels Great! because I need your advice on how to do them, all my ships are 1/600

[@HarryHoudiniModels]

I have shown my method in the series of videos on the Varyag, but that was 1/350 scale. I’ll add some PE railings to the forward superstructure in one of my next videos.

[@dixiefallas7799]

My Dad served on Her all through the war to the end.🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇬🇧

[@HarryHoudiniModels]

You must have some stories to tell then matey?

[@thomaslatth665]

Ahh the infamous Carpet Monster 08]

[@HarryHoudiniModels]

Yes Thomas the scourge of many a modeller ;)

[@WildBillJr]

Very nice Harry.

[@HarryHoudiniModels]

Thanks Bill

[@johndungate482]

I Enjoyed the video Harry - I liked your technique where you used a brush to fill in those small parts of the camo, where masking would be too tricky - always learning something new. One question: How do you scale up a drawing from the instructions provided, so that you have a 1:1 plan which is accurate to print - so the camouflage can be measured accurately?

[@HarryHoudiniModels]

I put the plans in Photoshop. Crop to the bow/stern edges, then scale that cropped image to the width of my model, 321mm for a Warspite in 1/600 scale. Then print the result at that exact size and bingo bongo; to-scale plans I can work from. My other method is find a thing on the plan which I know the size of. Work out a scaling ratio between the plan dimension and the scale size I need. Use that scaling ratio on the overall size of the plan. That should also result in a to-scale drawing I can print.

[@TonyGrant.]

i built this in 1972!

[@HarryHoudiniModels]

Good on you Tony, I did my first one in 1967.

[@TonyGrant.]

@@HarryHoudiniModels I was in 2nd class, 7yo. A mother of a classmate heard that I'd built a battleship and arranged for her son to stay the night so I could build his Airfix Bismarck! We became great friends after that. My very first ship was the HMS Campbeltown. I'm keenly looking forward to seeing your completed Warspite!

[@HarryHoudiniModels]

Great story Tony

[@TheQstoltz]

Nice to see this back on the bench. Nice use of the pencil sharpener, probably lost 98% of the millennial audience, the other 2% what’s a pencil……. Really nice work. Best wishes and regards.

[@HarryHoudiniModels]

I like to keep those whipper snappers guessing Mabbutt. Next week I will use a slide rule or maybe even an abacus!

[@TheQstoltz]

@@HarryHoudiniModels I would worry about audience retainment. It might be worth keeping it in the draw with that protractor. Best wishes Quentin.

[@HarryHoudiniModels]

Good advice

[@ronaldbyrne3320]

Harry, you’re slowly poisoning me into building ships, mate. 😅

[@HarryHoudiniModels]

Not poison me hearty.. ‘tis the elixir of life!

[@ronaldbyrne3320]

@@HarryHoudiniModels oh yes, that’s what I meant Harry. A slip of the tongue. 😜🤣

[@HarryHoudiniModels]

ahhhh “that’s what she said….”

[@ronaldbyrne3320]

@@HarryHoudiniModels 🤣

[@sammy_dog]

sorry Harry i didn't like this video i couldn't see a thing once you started painting the ship

[@HarryHoudiniModels]

That saddens my heart Sammy Dawg… do you perchance have Cat Er Acts?

[@sammy_dog]

@@HarryHoudiniModels i think it maybe the paint job was be- dazzling

[@HarryHoudiniModels]

Lol

[@TonyGrant.]

ahh yes, the fog of war paint!