The official Submarine Warfare Group Build 2016 - 2017

Hunter

 

modelcrazy

PJ, I'm looking forward to seeing your start.

Hunter, it's tough to clean up such small parts, your coming along nicely. Were you planning on putting her in a seascape?

 

 

 

 

Hey Buddy.....

 

I have been kicking a few idea's around. More than likely I will try my first attempt at water with this build.....hopefully with your guidence 

 

MC would be a good mentor for it......he has given me some pointers that I hopewill translate into something acceptable in my hands.  His work is great.

modelcrazy

PJ, I'm looking forward to seeing your start.

Hunter, it's tough to clean up such small parts, your coming along nicely. Were you planning on putting her in a seascape?

 

I have been kicking a few idea's around. More than likely I will try my first attempt at water with this build.....hopefully with your guidence 

PJ, I'm looking forward to seeing your start.

Hunter, it's tough to clean up such small parts, your coming along nicely. Were you planning on putting her in a seascape?

Well I finally had some time to work on my build. Upon opening the box I noticed that the majority of the parts were covered in flash and injection sites. I looked at this for an opportunity to learn how to trim and sand flash from the parts themself.

I glued the hull together to make it easier to trim and sand.....after I finish sanding down the hull I am going to go back and putty all the needed area's. 

As you can see at the bottom center just one of the injection site's that I will address

All of the hand rail post were completely surrounded by flash that I trimmed with a #11 blade....it took 2 blades to finish. I learned during this process apply a little pressure around small delicate pieces. I broke 3 of the hand rail post.

Here I am showing the seam that is now flush....there was nearly a 2/16 of an inch that needed to be sanded down. Once I apply putty and sand it will be clean and smooth.

This was one of the larger injection site's that took awhile to sand down.

Sorry for the poor photo....just highlighting the seam and injection site....Both are sanded and ready for putty. I am going to go and apply the putty and let cure overnight and the sand and prime the hull.

Cheers PJ, it certainyl turned out just nice for such an old kit.

Hanging a horseshoe upside down is meant to be unlucky. But thats how the pair were on U-99 and it didn't seem to bring them to much bad luck, at least until their luck ran out completly. And even then, they were lucky compared to most U-Boat crews.

Steve

Sorry that I have been out of the loop here but I started on my Gato and will post pictures soon now that I have more modeling time available. Your Dallas looks super and the water works is perfect as usual. You have mastered modeling water in my book!

Bish

Smashing ending to your build. I like the horseshoe idea for the display and the base. Proof in the pudding that old molds make great looking models.

As a side note, many years ago I had to put down my 18 year old Husky/Shepperd. I was walking back to the house and was cutting thru a field and stepped on an old horseshoe that I picked up that day and we have it outside by the front door on the wall with the open end up. I've been told open end up brings good luck.

It's been over 15 years since I found that horseshoe on that sad day and remember my sweet dog every time I see it. 

Cheers guys. armor, ye, those kits look really nice to do. Once my Rudel build is wrapped up, the 72nd boat will be the next big project to hit the bench.

Steve, Dougie puts a pic of one in his article yet even he didn't add a grass line to his build. I guess people must think it just looks out of place.

Hunter, wel, fortunatly my other half has a horse. So when i got this kit a few years back, it seemed an obvious thing to do and i asked her to bring one home the next time the horse was getting its shoes changed. I did think it might tip the base over but it seems to be balanced just right.

Mr. Bish - 

Once again you have raised the bar for the rest of us. Great paint and detailing job, and I like your idea for the base. I knew that was a real horse shoe......you always seem to come up with some interesting items for your builds. 

Great job Bish, it's good to see you build out of your comfort zone. The weedline looks fine, I don't know why other build don't show them more often, they certainly exist.

Nice base as well, I always like your basses. I would like to see what you can do with the 1/72 version. Thanks for jumping in, it's always great to have you come aboard a GB.

Looks awesome Bish, the 72nd scale Revell builds up well...lots of room for detail. My Typhoon is progressing nicely. I will be posting pix probably next weekend with my progress.

Time for me to wrap this one up. I used some oils to create the streaking and then painted up the few details and added some rigging. I know the fading is a bit heavy on the power hull, and while the grassweed line may fairly realistic, it does look a bit strange when compared to many other u-boat builds i have seen. But it has really given me an idea of what to do and not to do on the bigger kits. So its really been worthwhile and its nice to have a u-baot on the shelf.

So with all that done, just had to put it on the base.

And yes, that is a real horseshoe.

Cheers Steve for a great GB. It has really taught me a lot and was great to have the excuse to build this. Now just need to find some time to build a bigger one.

It's exciting when an idea works out.

Ok gotta post this IT WORKED!!! My idea worked. So excited. I was trying to figure a way to place caps over my missle tubes. I picked up a drill bit, liberated some kitchen foil, burnished the foil over the chuck end of the bit, trimmed with a #11 blade and POOF satifactory results for me. This group build and my friends are really helping me in this hobby. Sorry to sound really excited and I will try to point out the detail when I post my next set of pix. Y'all have no idea. Thanks folks.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

Thank you my friend. The Dallas is almost complete.

Steve

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

Bish

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

Thanks, i thought thats what you said.

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 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.

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.

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.

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

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 

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.

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.