The official Submarine Warfare Group Build 2016 - 2017

I gotta finish first, ha ha!  Paint shop.  Tonight.  Pinkie promise. 

LOL Ok G, looking forward to it.

I brush painted flat black into areas that the rattle can would have a hard time covering, which worked well.  It looks terrible now, but things will get better.

https://flic.kr/p/Xbofvp][/url]Seehund-15 by N.T. Izumi, on Flickr

Primer on!  Flaws spotted!  Not too bad though.  I'll touch up any boo-boos tonight when I get home.

https://flic.kr/p/X8N8nN][/url]Seehund-18 by N.T. Izumi, on Flickr

Oh yeah, that looks nice G

looks very nice!

Okay guys, sorry but it looks like I failed another GB.    This is as far as I will get by the deadline.

https://flic.kr/p/W13LaS][/url]Seehund-23 by N.T. Izumi, on Flickr

I do intend to keep on working on it this week.  I was rushing so much that I made some stupid assembly errors which I must now contemplate fixing.  But thanks for hosting the GB, which did get the Seehund off the Shelf of Doom.  Hopefully it will soon berth in my dusty display cabinet.

G, great work. I will be watching you finish her, and she WILL go on the wall when your done.

Thank you to everyone who has taken part of this GB. This will be my last to host for a while due to my unknown future regarding a lung transplant (a couple months?? A year?? Only the Lord knows). I will be hosting another GB as soon as this ordeal is over and I can be sure to be on top of one on a daily basis.

Thank you again for all the beautiful and spectacular work you have done. I am honored to have been you host, and thanks you to CodyJ for the outstanding badges and for co-hosting, although I didn't leave you with much to do.

This is one of the best forums on the internet because of everyone. 

Thank you

Steve 

Thanks for hosting the GB! 

Good luck with your health, I look forward to participating 

in your next GB when your able.

Post-GB progress.

Last night I was able to squeeze in some airbrush time, so I  see spots!  The hull color will be applied over the next few evenings (I hope) to bring the spots into sharper focus.

https://flic.kr/p/Xgpybo][/url]Seehund-25 by N.T. Izumi, on Flickr

Herr Kapitan as usual is present to oversee progress.

Looks like a Whale Shark

modelcrazy

Looks like a Whale Shark

 

Still plugging away:

https://flic.kr/p/WcxYKr][/url]Seehund-27 by N.T. Izumi, on Flickr

https://flic.kr/p/XeCJWH][/url]Seehund-28 by N.T. Izumi, on Flickr

I pre-painted the insides of the sail and screw shroud.  I mixed too much paint so I began painting the lower hull.  The sail got glued on this morning.  The silly putty masking idea did not work, as the tiny wads of putty would rather stick to my fingers!  Looks like I'm going to be using Elmers Glue to mask the spots.

I'm posting from my phone, so I don't know if the photo or dreaded "X" will show.

The lower hull looks great G. I like the way "Black Basing" looks if done right. The Silly Putty idea works but it is difficult to get them to stick. I did the same thing with my Macchi 202 but I ended up applying them with tweezers.

The straggler build continues.

Last night after being buzzed by a large flying cockroach (we get 'em big here - they are called "B-52s") in the patio last night, I got the hull painted up.  The white glue masks seemed to work well enough, and rather than soaking them off with water I found that they could be easily peeled off using the tip of a knife and fine tweezers.  The removed glue masks made quite a mess!

https://flic.kr/p/Wh2eKj][/url]Seehund-30 by N.T. Izumi, on Flickr

https://flic.kr/p/XtMKfb][/url]Seehund-31 by N.T. Izumi, on Flickr

I forgot to paint the "sticky out bits" for the sail due to the unannounced cockroach attack.  I jerked when it buzzed me, spilling paint all over my hand.

https://flic.kr/p/XtMJU1][/url]Oops by N.T. Izumi, on Flickr

I underestimated the intensity of the white dots, so I ended up laying on the hull color quite heavily, thus obliterating the black basing effect on the topsides.  I'll do the black AFTER the white dots the next time.  Live and learn.

https://flic.kr/p/XtMK3s][/url]Seehund-32 by N.T. Izumi, on Flickr

Thats looking very nice!

modelcrazy

LOL, well at least you’re learning a lot with this build. It's the centipedes you have that freak me out!

 

Well, unlike the centipede in Loggins & Messina's "Lahaina", the ones I see around the yard are pretty well behaved.  They do get big though.  But it's those darned cockroaches that are the unruly ones.  Sometimes they have frat parties in the evening; there's loud music, crazy running around, dancing, boozing, and uninhibited sex!  I can't get anything done during those roach-keggers, so I end up shutting everything down and go inside the house.  Even the cats hate it. 

When I was little, we used to have these centipedes in the yard that had shiny black heads, brilliant metallic blue-green bodies, and red-orange legs.  Now we only get those big ones that are brown with yellow legs.  But they mind their own business and don't get out of control.

But back on topic, yeah I'm trying to get back into the model groove so am re-learning stuff as I go.

When I was stationed there I was alone on watch at the CG transmitter site one night back in 89 I saw one of those black ones with yellow legs!!! The creature was 8" if was an inch BLAAAA! I freaked out like I was a little girl. I rather face a Menehune than one of those things again LOL.

Just a short note about my Gato. I entered it in the Modelpalooza Show today here in Orlando and won Gold in the Nautical class and Best Nautical Subject.

Fantastic job PJ! and well deserved bud.

Thanks Steve.

I had some time off during the year and ran late with some of my builds. Although they're not on the roster, somewhere in the thread I said I'd build a Hobby Boss 1/350 Type IX U-Boat and the Verlinden 200mm U-Boat captain bust. I tried to avoid the 'Verlinden look' on the bust.

Sorry they're so late, but at least they're done ! I won't claim the badge.

Cheers

Tony

Tony,

That loos so cool  Great job. Far better than I could ever do.

Sorry I forgot to put him on the roster.

plasticjunkie

Just a short note about my Gato. I entered it in the Modelpalooza Show today here in Orlando and won Gold in the Nautical class and Best Nautical Subject.

 

 

Have not checked this thread in a while, so PJ, a belated well done and the award.

Tony, nice looking builds there, your deffinetly right to avoid the Verlinden look, yours is much better.

Bish

 

 

plasticjunkie

Just a short note about my Gato. I entered it in the Modelpalooza Show today here in Orlando and won Gold in the Nautical class and Best Nautical Subject.

 

 

 

 

 

Have not checked this thread in a while, so PJ, a belated well done and the award.

 

Thanks Bish!

Thanks Tony!

I did not join this GB as I haven'tbeen on in some time.  Great work everyone.  I really like the firsrt badge up there.  Showing the American sub jumping out of the water.  The SS Blueback.  It is currently a museum at the Oregon Museum of Science and Industry in Portland Oregon.  Just a few blocks from the Railroad museum.  I've been on the tour.  It's pretty cool.  Cramped quarters in there.  So if anyone is ever up in this area and wants to check it out now you know where it is.  Yes this is the sub from the Hunt for Red October.

Great info . The next time I'm in Portland I'll have to go see it. It's about 8 hours from me in Boise and I get there about every other year or so.