Revell S-100 Class W.I.P. **Update 2/28**

Very nice indeed, keep the photos coming. I love watching builds in progress.

cheers,

Julian

On my Revell S-100 I stuck pieces of sprue on the inside of the exhaust and coolingwater outlets so that I could drill them through from the outside. Gives a sense of depth to the vents.

Cheers,

Julian

Thanks for the tip Julian! I drilled mine out at a slight angle which I think gave them a bit more depth than just drilling them straight through. I think I am just going to glue some thin cardstock on the inside and let it ride as they add quite a bit of dimenson to it as is.

One question though, there are small circlular porst above the exhaust ports and above the water line. I am assuming that these are bilge ports?? If so, should they all be drilled as well?? There are 3 on one side and 2 on the other. My refs show some of them pretty clearly as pumping water but I cant find a good pic of the others.

Here is the deck before priming with all torpedo racks on. I think Eduard was ingeniuos how they designed these in PE!!

And after a coat of rattle can flat black..

And the drilled intake and exhaust ports...

More to come, thanks for dropping by...

Got some more work done on the deck tonight. I decided on Tamiyas German Grey XF-63 lightened with a few drops of white to represent deck grey. Not sure if the pics show it clearly but went with an uneven coat to show wear. I plan to enhance the high traffic areas of the deck later to show a bit more wear than other areas.

One question though, there are small circlular porst above the exhaust ports and above the water line. I am assuming that these are bilge ports?? If so, should they all be drilled as well??

I drilled those through as well (yes, bilge ports).

Your build is coming along nicely but aren't the deckhouses too dark? (and after weathering things tend to get darker still).

cheers,

Julian

Doh....................Sorry, just me being impatient

Julian

I never finished the Revell S-100. I wasn't trying to do the "Lang" but went for the three colour camouflage (that was never painted on 100 series boat anyway) and armed with airbrushes, several pots of paint and a jar of maskol I set out to do the camo. Things sort of went from bad to worse and the maskol fought the paint all the way. The model moved into the storage room, sat there for about a year until I changed my hobby room. I decided the S-100 was going nowhere and was looking pretty dreadful waiting to get there so I threw the build into the garbage can (along with some "ugly sisters"that I did not post here ). The remaining parts went into the sparebox. Luckily not one of the most expensive kits and it taught me an awful lot about maskol .

cheers,

Julian

The Revell model is good, my paint job sucked.

Julian

Thanks Julian and MR.

Got a little bit of work done on the sboot this evening. While dry fitting the deck, I discovered there was a small gap that just would not do on the where the deck meets the transom. A couple of pieces of .02 x.04 strip later and you'd never know it was there!

Doh, got a little click happy and clicked post instead of preview..

Anywho, got the deck gap filled and started working on the open torpedo tube. After digging around the house to find a suitable plastic tube that would simulate the eel's home, I came up with a medicine dropper that comes with childrens Advil. May be kinda hard to see in the pics as it is clear. Using a Dremel, I hollowed out the tube ends very carefully.

Will post some more tonight, hoping to get the hull primed and painted as soon as I finish with this tube. Thanks for taking a peek and as usual, all thoughts and comments are welcome!

Nice work on the tubes Jester ! I am planning on putting one fish in a tube (gives an idea of how big they are if you look in through the tube doors), one fish half way in a tube and of course the two spare fish in the rails on deck.Keep the photos coming.

cheers,

Julian

More work done on the boat today, been a fairly good weekend for modelling!! Started working on the propulsion. This would round out the hull and would enable me to go ahead and get it primed.

Once finished with the lower hull, it was time for the flat black primer...

Got to admit, this is one sleek mean looking machine!! Now on to a mission in Silent Hunter III and hopefully I wont get rammed by a Clemson class destoyer and sink this time!!! Thanks for stopping in!

Thanks for stopping in and takin a look everyone! Can't believe its been over a month since I have worked on this thing!!! Things have been really busy plus took some time off to go to an AMPS show in Atlanta which I placed silver and bronze in with some armor pieces!!

So finally, back to the s-boot, got some schnellbootweis laid down on the hull and the kalotte. So far so good. almost time to start adding the smaller bits and pieces to the decks and get the guns built up.

Lucked up with some WEM resin eels for this baby which will be strapped down to the decks. Think I will start them next and get them outta the way.

A bit more work done on this  beast tonite. Got some post shading done with the AB using sbootweis with a drop or two of german grey. I started to leave the deck above the torpedo tubes white but decided that I liked the painted over deck greay look a bit better.

Got to admit, this is a mean looking boat!! Comments and critiques as always are welcome!

Jester75 wrote:

A bit more work done on this  beast tonite. Got some post shading done with the AB using sbootweis with a drop or two of german grey. I started to leave the deck above the torpedo tubes white but decided that I liked the painted over deck greay look a bit better. Got to admit, this is a mean looking boat!! Comments and critiques as always are welcome!

Have you thought about getting the S-100 w/ Flak 38 Flakvierling also 1/72 scale and also from Revell of Germany?

Thanks Manny!!

Mikey-Isnt that the same kit as this one but with a quadflak,some depth charges, and a normal looking lifeboat?? I do have teh Type VIIC Uboat from RoG though!!

Just letting you know I ordered the S-100 and S-100 Flak38 kits today from Sprue Bros. And made a interesting discovery RoG actually offers a figure set that covers both the U-boat kit and the S-100 kits.

http://www.greatmodels.com/~smartcart/cgi/display.cgi?item_num=REV02525

and here is the review

http://www.cybermodeler.com/hobby/figures/rm/kit_rm_2525.shtml

And next one you do do it with the eel coming halfway out of the tube as if it is being fired and add some cotton at the same time to simulate the vapor cloud from the compressed air. (This is very pronounced in the North Atlantic and the English Channel during Winter and early spring. Just add some small tufts of cotton.)