Type XXI U Boat- the Revell kit with interior WIP

Thank you, all.

Currently I have a major issue with Tamiya tape residue. Any ideas how to get it off of Tamiya acrylic paint?

I tried alcohol- bad idea.

I tried soapy water. Maybe nothing.

It looks excellent, GM. Nice job. Another keeper!

Well;

    I gotta say . What a nice job ! Love it .

    T.B.

Wonderful!

XXXDAn

Well, I am going to wrap this one up. There's been a series of distractions, but it's time.

I decided not to thin the outer hull, although thats a good idea. But it's dark gray- black face and edges, so it'll just be not real visible.

I did build the pressure hull out of the thinnest stuff I could find.

I thought about making the "aperture" in the pressure hull covered clear, because I started with a clear plastic bottle. But right away, I realized that takes precision skills I don't have. Glue, clouds from CA on clear styrene etc. just too difficult.

Would be great to see photos of your work described above.

Hi " G " ;

     I have been following this build because I have a few of these . Question ? Are you going to thin the edges of the opening to a somewhat scale thickness ? I do this on the Cutters and everyone seems to like them better that way . Just asking because my subs all heve thinned edges on the openings .

     I also did this . I took one of the sides from the Non-Interior version and Vac - Formed a window which was cut down and  fit into the opening to ensure the look of a full hull and it's lines . It looks neat that way and ensures that dust will not enter the sub while on display .

     I got the idea from Renwal's and Revell's - U.S.S. George Washington models with the clear sides . Even in Planes if it's got clear , I will build some framing on the clear side shadowing off ( thinning ) to nothing in the visible interest points .

    This makes it looks like you and other viewers have "X-Ray" vision looking at the subject . Kinda like the old car pictures in ads and brochures and Magazines of the fifties . I still have the foldout " Ghosted" drawing of the" Titanic " from national Geographic ." I hope I finish that afore I am gone .     T.B.         P.S. A friend and fellow modeler is figuring out how to use Low-brightness L.E.D.Tape ( from model railroading ) to shed light on the back areas of the insides of both my cutters and the subs .

Good day,

Nice job done! and good progress !

watching details in your model, and ...had question... diesel must be connected to the generator via red.gear box ...or straight to the generator,depends on engine rpm...I see engine, kind of device connected to its aft shaft end ,which could be schematic flywheel or gear box,, such size too smal for generator... but than ...nothing... looks like generator missed? ... I din't know, probably I'm wrong ... ? how it should be on real submarine/prototype of your model? 

BRGDS

Kirill

Say Morrison, not that I am casting any stones here but.... where are we on this?

Looking interesting...

Incidentally, this is why you sometimes see a red 'safe light' in old darkrooms for developing film. If one was working with film that was was not sensitive to red this red light bulb did not affect the exposure and the photographer did not have to work blind when doing the development.

GMorrison

Apparently a dark color:

 

That "dark" colour could very well be a bright red. The human eye is very sensitive to green, grass-eating monkeys that we once were, it is not so sensitive to red and blue. Black and white films were sensitive to green, otherwise they would not be terribly useful as photographic media, but sensitivity to blue and particularly to red was an optional extra. A b/w film that records green and blue and is blind to red is perfectly useable for most photographic purposes, and was actually quite common back in the day. On such a film, pure red would be recorded as black. Some b/w films recorded red, some did not, and unless you know the type of film used for a particular b/w image it is highly unsafe to draw conclusions about subject colour, even tonality is suspect. (Besides, it was quite common to use different coloured filters on the front of the lens to darken the blues of the sky or to improve separation between the different greens in vegetation for example, which would further skew the recording. And this is before the vagaries of development, retouching and printing are considered.)

Pretty pleased so far. I've base painted the hull NATO Black, and will post shade it a little.

So preshade and paint the red. One side red, the other side to go.

Great idea using the bottles, GM. Very nice work.

Interesting...

Just curious, does being an architect give you a leg up in building or can it be a hindrance ?

There's been some progress. After fitting out the interior, I've gone about setting up the pressure hull.

I looked around and found a couple of cheap glue bottles that were about the right diameter.

Cut up and glued in. The 21 had exterior ribs on the pressure hull, set those up to actual scale and spacing. And they were built in sections, so there's a double rib at each join.

Next is to paint the external surfaces with anti fouling paint. There were good suggestions on several ideas here earlier, I thank you all for that. I've decided to go with a "Tabasco" colored oxide primer. Mostly because the outer hull will be black and it seems to be a good guess.

kirill4

formally, after graduation my marine school in 1988, in Vladivostock...I had minor military rank automatically, allows me to occupate pozition of comander of submarine engineering department, and as I could remember now,in the classes we study this ,613 project... 

That's interesting!  Were they still using the 613/Whiskey subs in the late 80's, or was it just a historical lesson for an understaning of the basics?

And on to the ball bearings, P.A. can and wondering where in the sub Captain's overhead G is going to put them..........

Hokey

Ya lost me on this one.

Means you needed another rum; er, no, to confistcate a rum from your daughter's uh, no, juice glasses, yeah, policing up juive glasses--wait, juice and rhum?  Why, yes, I'll have aniother.

Oh, sorry. I wondered, but thought "No, he can't mean that."

It's called www.subsim.com, and it's mainly devoted to playing submarine and other naval games. I've been a member there since 2002 and a moderator for about three years now.

The other guy's U-boat thread is here. Mind you it's a Type VII: www.subsim.com/radioroom/showthread.php?t=123846

[edit] Never mind. I just looked and he's taken down all his pictures. I hate it when people do that.

[edit 2] On the other hand I haven't. Here's the link to my thread cataloguing everything I've built over the past three years: www.subsim.com/radioroom/showthread.php?t=192145

I would like the URL of the other website you frequent. Sounds good...

Hokey

 

Sailor Steve

Another website I frequent featured a guy's build of the Type VII. He didn't do any interior, but he did spend a lot of money and time on etched-brass detail parts. All the grills, props, torpedo tube interiors.

I've owned that one for years, and yes you should see it. It's not quite the mini-series, though - the credits are edited out to make one five-hour-long movie. That said, I think it is far and away the best version.

 

 

 

Whats the URl please? 

I've got an "uncut" version my media server - would that the the "mini-series"?

 

 

URL for the show? I don't know. I paid full price for the DVD the day I saw it in the store, many years ago. Yes, the "Uncut" version is the mini-series, without the breaks between episodes. I'm still wishing they would release it with the breaks, as I like to watch it one bit at a time.