U-Boat Tamiya paint questions

For my U-boat, I used Testors Dark Aircraft Grey for the upper uboat and aircraft grey for the lower. Can't help you with the wood. Your colors sound good.

David

mg42gunner wrote:

Thanks for the reply, I think ill order these paint colors. For the deck I did some searching and it seemed to be painted with around the same color as the lower hull, so I think with some weathering it can turn out to be a bit lighter.

Are  you going to rust any part of the hull?

Peewee

You are right on target witht he wear and decks. For heaps of good info, check out Dougie Martindale's very well researched article on U-boot colors:

http://www.rokket.biz/models/modelsweb/rokket/u557/paint.shtml

downloadable as PDF

Hope it helps 

mg42gunner wrote:

Thank you rokket, that website is great! This will really help when I get to the weathering process, thank you very much.

Could you photograph the process? I am thinking of building the Zvezda ZVE9007 Kursk nuke sub is why I ask and I got a Dragon weathering kit but to date I have never weathered anything before. Except for my head when I am at the beach just prior to a hurricane.

Peewee

I hear, ya. My son, little peewee junior, just gradudated from the community college one quarter earlier than expected. He is now scrambling to get admitted into the University of Washington for the fall quarter instead of the winter quarter as per the original plan. He had learned this past Tuesday that he had enough credits to grad which placed him last minute into the commencement excercise 4 days later.

If you can do it thanks for the step by step. I have a German Uboat U99 and the Kursk so I may try to follow your progress with one or the other.

Peewee