MSW plank-owner Rui Matos (skipper) shares a fabulous piece of work, his latest diorama, entitled River Tagus, Navy Ship Board, circa 1952, in this MSW feature!

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Thanks!
~Gunny

This is gorgeous Rui, quite my favourite of your many artistic works.

Bravo!

Mike

Both vessels are up to your excellent standard, Rui, but I wish to call attention to your harbor (or river) water effect and publicly applaud the coloring for this scene.

Salt water isn't always deep blue and your application of aqueous greens has taken what would have been a highly competent vignette and moved it into the realm of artistry.

Could we press you for a brief description of your technique?

--Karl

Thanks Mark, Mike and Karl

Answering Karl's question, is more a matter of observation than technique...
After all is the river where I have lived nearby all my life, and I am perfectly aware of the colors that it may be... sometimes it can be deep blue (high tide, depending on the season!).

The technique used is watercolor paper, acrylic paints while the paper is wet, and mixing it according to a color photo or a memory (this was the case).

If you see my MOD's and Features, you'll notice that all my displays have different colors according to the place where it is supposed to be.

This is a great compliment... Thank you gentleman!
Cheers
Rui

Rui: That's outstanding work! Great job on both ships and the overall presentation!!

Very nice display Rui.

Nice to see that you are building again - quality high as allways, and put into an attractive context.

Good work/Jan

Rui, I'm very confused now, I don't know which of your builds I like best, other than all of them!

I'm looking forward to Telford this year if not only to see some of these top winners.

River class on the Tagus - even the concept is intelligent.

Cheers,

Peter F

Very nice work, I wish I could manage a good back-drop like your one. Thank you for sharing.

Thank you guys!!!!
You're all very kind!

Peter, none of the previously/recently published models will be at Telford... I'll explain why there!
But there will be models from me at FWL and Contest Tables

Back to the bench


Rui

Excellent job, Rui. Great job on both the base and ships. Interesting background story and conversion.

Thanks for sharing

Hi Rui,

The boats compliment each other really well. I like the sky images

Excellent work.

Al