The official Submarine Warfare Group Build 2016 - 2017

Looking good there armor, nice added detail.

I have my U-99 painted and have started weathering. Will post some pics when i can sort out a hosting site, feed up with PB.

Yeah I HATE PB. I gladly pay yearly for Imageshack, though several members seem happy with Flickr. 

MC, yea she's big, very smooth build so far. I have the old Dragon "Alpha", "Los Angeles", and "Ohio" class subs, this thing dwarfs all of them. BTW all 350th.

Bish, thanks for checking in. I work with a guy who details VERY well, he gets me motivated. My brother is an uber scratchbuilder and detailer on 35th german armor, he helps stoke the fire too. Thanks for looking, I will try to post more after some paint. P.S. PB is really problematic today.

modelcrazy

Yeah I HATE PB. I gladly pay yearly for Imageshack, though several members seem happy with Flickr. 

 

I joined Flickr this weekend but can't be doing with that eitehr. It doesn't crash like PB, but i can't even figure out how to take a link and post images. It should be plan and simple. I may end up going the payment route.

PJ turned me onto Imageshack almost 2 years ago and have never regretted it.

No pop-ups, no waiting for adds to load.

Steve

My subscription went up from $18.99 to $37.99 and have been looking around for a cheaper paid site but have found nothing better so I may just pay up the increase  and go with it. I've had no issues at all and has been a pleasure to use. I sent them an email complaining about the price hike and got an automated response saying they are looking into my issue.

Wow, I have an automatic deduction so I didn't notice the price change. It's still a good site and like you never had any issues....except that one a year ago. They fixed that rather quickly and put in fixes so it wouldn't happen again. 

I hear ya Steve. I like them too, just not the sudden price hike but like you said, it's easy to use, fast and no issues. Just waiting for a response before I renew, hopefully they will honor my older price.

Seeing as i know have the hang of Flickr and can post pics without all the drama's of PB, thought i would post a short update. My main source of referance for painting is Dougie Martindale's article. Fortunatly, he picks out U-99 as an example. The hull and tower were painted with colorcoats, Hellgrau 50 for the upper hull and tower and Schiffsbodenfarbe III Grau on the lower hull. The deck was painted with tamiya flat black and i started the weathering by dry brushing NATO black.

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Just got to wrap up the Imperial Shuttle now and get really dive into the whoe reason i am building this, the weathering.

That old Revell kit turns out nice. You did a nice job on the painting. Can't wait to see the weathering.

Thanks Steve, ye, it don't look to bad once cleaned up. I have a good idea on how to approach it. I might be able to make a start tonight.

Hello everyone,

Wow....so far the builds in this GB are absolutely amazing. Such great detail and realism. Steve here is my submission.

 American Sub Chaser SC96

I may need to scratch build some missing parts

Hi Hunter,

If I remember right there was quite a bit of flash on that kit but with your scratching it should make a great build.

Good to see you back.

modelcrazy

Hi Hunter,

If I remember right there was quite a bit of flash on that kit but with your scratching it should make a great build.

Good to see you back.

 

A bit more progress on the weathering. I am going heavy here, a boat thats not been in dry dock for a while. That way i can try out differant things before i get to one of the big ones.

Unlike the larger kits, this one has no surface detail such as lines of rivets. So, on the upper hull and tower i did some dot filtering with medium and light gret to help break it up.

One thing i had not realised is that salt water fades paint. So, i mixed some of the darker lower hull base colour with a bit of light grey oil and some thinner and streaked it down the hull.

I then repeated this with a light shade but starting at the water line. But i made the error of leaving it over night, so when i tried to remove the excess, it had dried to much. So, back to the paint shop and some of the base with a bit of white and hevay on the thinner and over sprayed the lower part. I quite like the result, a patchy faded look. Then i started on the grassweed line. Given this is a boat in the cold N Atlantic for weeks and not months, i went for a thin brownish line. This was done with oil paints, a combination of yellow orche, burnt umber and raw umber.

I have only done one side so far. I'll do the otehr and then get on with the chipping and rust. I will leave the oil paint until next weekend before i add a flat clear coat just to be safe.

Bish

That us really looking like something now. Outstanding job so far, but I wouldn't expect anything less from you. Your filtering and weathering techniques are top notch 

Thanks Steve. Though its a bit differant from aircraft and armour. I never thought of somthing thats spends all its time in water as getting so dirty, but its a differant type of dirty. But its fun taking what i know and adapting it.

Bish

Shes looking very good. You have done a great job on that old mold.

For the fading I use white oil paint applied as tiny dots and dragged down with a thinner dampened brush. This is best done over a clear acrylic flat coat so the oil paint can bite and get a good fading effect.

Here is the Dallas so far. I started on the water using Styrofoam covered with strips of paper, painted blue and applied acrylic gel. It will take a few days for the gel to dry then I will add some more paint, cotton and acrylic varnish.

Thanks PJ. ye, thats sor of what i did but used two greays. But the end result was to light, i used to much oil i reckon. I'll know next time.

Looking god Steve. That Acrylic gel, did you once say you used a medium one.

Bish

Looking god Steve. That Acrylic gel, did you once say you used a medium one.

Yes, it's easer to form than the thick and you can apply larger amounts than the thin.

Thanks, i thought thats what you said.

Bish

As always, a "Top Shelf" build...great job on the details

Steve

You are definitely the master of water my friend....Outstanding job!! 

Thank you my friend. The Dallas is almost complete.

The Dallas is finished. I tried three different "cottons" for the wake to see which one I liked best.
In order of ease and look IMO.

1. The cotton you get out of medicine bottles.

2. Cotton balls.

3. Poly-Fil.

It was a supper easy build and allowed me a chance to experiment.

I like that Steve. The effect of the water being pushed out in front of the build is really nice.

The 99 is just about done. Just got to do a final clear coat and some rigging.

Thanks Bish. I'm trying new techniques. I'm using a lighter to heat up the Styrofoam to create the swells, but the bow disturbance was formed using an xacto blade.

Always good to try new ideas and i guess with strofoam, if its niot right, its not to hard to get another piece.

I think the way the water parts over a sub is really cool, never figured out how to re-create it in scale. maybe I'm over thinking it. Looks amazing Modelcrazy.