HI mi friends, here with the last update before presenting the finished model. The last details to the ship before its first mission. So here we go one last time…
The crew from Azimuth is great, excellent details; I used a couple of the figures from italery also
Here the flesh detail is painted followed by the uniforms.
I modified a little this figure from the italery set to be the driver
A figure from dragons communication set is used in the map room
The side markers lights are replaced with new ones made from styrene, a vacuum copy was made, then a piece of styrene is cut in half and the new glass is cut to shape and glued, two Styrene disks serve as bottom and top for the new lamps. A small piece of wire is used for the handle detail on top of the Edward PH part
The new side marker lamp painted and in place, sooo much better than the original
The steel angular between the kalotte and the front deck is made with angular styrene of 1.2mm
Ready to install
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It looks like this now
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Torpedoes are glued in place and the PH straps painted and installed
The smoke generators in place
The anchor in its new location as seen on the real boat, why there is a mystery for me, I think
It is because it is so little used so it doesn’t stand on the way on the front deck
The PH roof supports from the Edward set are installed; this detail is missing on the kits parts
The side railings are placed and wired
The wire tensors for the antenna cables are made from cooper wire and a piece of brass tube Painted black
The tensors and the antenna cable installed
The finished front gun
The ammo storage for the dual flak
The side handle and the strange box on the boats side are installed
The finished flak 42
The base for the boat in made of plastic panel ½ inch in dia. A cut out of the boat hull was made
The water is made with spackling compound and wire screen the base is 48”long by 12” wide
The wire mesh used to form the water spray is covered with spackling paste
It’s getting there, almost finished
Well this is it, it is already finished, I’m working on the final photos of the complete model on the base, coming soon!
Thanks!
Abdin