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Thanks Rob, Yes, while the decals were missing I ordered a decal replacement sheet from Amp.rocket. I also ordered a peddinghaus decal sheet with optional decals. Good grief. I now have a great selection of Uboat insignia options for the future. Options, options, options. Valkyrie: thank you for sharing the information on the U-33 Arnold: I appreciate the comments on the A frame. One of the details on the deck has been a little bit of an issue. Basically there is a small Nipple at the bottom of the mount and small divot in the deck. The detail has popped off a few times so I decided to file of the nipple and drill it with a pin vice. I added & glued in a small brass .030 pin for more surface area for the glue to grab onto. After drilling out the divot on the deck I glued the detail in place. Much stronger now. Next steps: to join the upper & lower conning tower together and start the weathering process. Say a prayer for me.
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Very nice! Following with interest. Keep up the great work.
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I noticed over the weekend a part, a small “A” frame gun support arm, came off my conning tower that was lightly glued to the floor. It’s still missing in action. I have not tried soldering yet when it comes to fine scale models, but I do want to learn in the near future. So I tried to make my own. I bought some .030 brass rod and with a dedicated cutter I cut a few pieces out and filed the edges. I used a CA gel with a pin. After applying it to both sides and letting it dry. I lightly sanded both sides making the frame less round and a little more flat. It was surprisingly solid after it dried. In hind sight the cross beam could have been smaller and installed a little closer to the top of the A shape to more closely resemble the missing part. I have seen a few pictures with the weapon pointed vertically while the Uboat is coming to port. I’m curious to know if while on operations and submerged if the weapon is in this position with the “A” frame in use for rigidity.
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This weekend I touched up my conning tower a bit. There was a small patch job that could have better. I took care of that. I Airbrushed some other minor touch ups from handling. I added a light layer of varnish as I prepare for weathering this week. I have located my missing decals. Omg that was miserable. On a positive note I remodeled my whole workbench after removing it all out in the driveway.
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Welcome to the forums!
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Little update: I started to go down a path with the deck and …… I decided to change paths. I sprayed the deck a color I did not love, I questioned my previous masking choices, and my plan seemed faulty. I scrapped that idea, removed the previous masking on the decks and sprayed the deck a different color (dark grey) with a lot less masking. I added a little base layer dry brush to the deck. So far I like it better. I touched up the conning tower, little filler, reshot with base color, painted the floor with a darker grey base, added a base wood color to CT interior. I seem to have misplaced or lost my stock decal sheet. I will restart my search again tomorrow very disappointed I was not more careful. In the event it’s not found I need to figure out a back up plan for graphics. 😕 Another hard lesson learned.
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Hello everyone from Trenton, Michigan in the USA
Goji308 replied to Shankster's topic in New Members
Welcome to the forum Tim from The Bay Area. -
Welcome to the forum David.
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Valkyrie, thanks for the info and the reply. I also need to start paying more attention to my books, photos, etc. Just looking at the revel stock deck it looks it’s was some wooden parts, medium detail, and some steel hatches, plates, etc. I would prefer a more detailed deck in the future but for now I will try to make the stock deck look good as I’m possible. Thanks for the link, I have visited that website before but definitely need to go through it again. Thanks again for sharing. Today I was looking at various deck tutorials and started to get big eyes for some of the battleship decking that look like pro basketball arena floors. I had to pull back and remind myself I am working on a workhouse uboat that has a deck with a coating over the top that seems some of the harshest environments on the planet. That took place during a world war. I did some masking when I got home from work and will see if there are easier and more delicate masking tapes I can use in the future for this sort of thing. This blue painters tape was thick and bulky.
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Thank you gentlemen Jochen & Valkyrie, for the interesting information regarding the life preservers, the reasons, and what you said makes total sense. As of now, I will be omitting the life preservers from the build. I was talking with a friend about some of the Uboat decks being mostly made of wood and he found that hard to believe. I explained to him about how the Uboats were constructed regarding the pressure hull etc. He pointed out the deck on the IX kit looks like metal. I believe some of it was. I don’t know too much about the coating that was applied to the wood but will be looking deeper into the process.
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What a wonderful build. Watching with interest.
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This one gun turret (37mm) has been driving a little bonkers during the build. The seat has come off several times during handling and every time I glue it, it seems to be getting a large glue bulge at the joint and weaker by the contact point. I have have considered upgrading the gun with possibly a higher detailed aftermarket part but that would mean more $$ and time. Before I begin going down that road I will try to replace the seat arm. With an Xacto knife I trimmed a piece of .060 styrene sheet. I shaped it, trimmed it, sanded, created an angle for the attachment, cleaned up under the seat with a file, stripped it, re-applied glue, tada. Fixing that small issue turned out to be quite relaxing with a positive outcome. I am pretty confident it will be quite a bit more robust now.
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In the Revell kit the instructions, they recommend the life preservers on the exterior of the conning tower to be painted red. I did a google search on the color of Uboat life preservers and came up empty handed wondering what color if not red were the color of life preservers during war time. Red to me does not seem like a high vis color on a stormy sea. Then again during a war I’m not sure anyone would want a hight vis color on the side of their Vessel. I will look through some of my pictures to see if In fact life preservers were even mounted on the exterior at all. If it were me, and in fact preservers were mounted on a uboat, a muted weathered orange would seem fitting.
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This morning after a fresh cup of coffee I proceeded to the garage to see what I could do this morning. I noticed a small dimple I was not happy with just behind the anchor recess. After looking at that I noticed a .312 long crack just under the lip. Ugh. How in the 7 hills did this happen and when? After interrogating the children I remember last week when I took the model to work I had to pick up an employee last minute. As you can see this train wreck coming , I pulled up to his house where he was standing and he jumped in the back seat of my new Ford pickup and before I could shout , Wait!!! He practically sat on the Uboat. Unbelievable. He is the kind of guy like a bull in a Fine crystal shop. After a quick examination at work I thought I’d dodged a bullet, model looked fine. So today I noticed a few of the extra sprue supports I glued inside to control the width of the hull to accept the decks with precision, they were detached. So this morning I carefully bent a few areas very gingerly, added some thin cement, filled, sanded, repainted. Glad that is behind me. Here is the dimple and the crack on the hull. the crack is just above the dimple to the left near the slots. (Before repair) airbrushing some colors on the hull.
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Last few days I really put in some time practicing with the new airbrush. A friend of mine loaned me his air compressor and gave me some more tips and I’ve been problem free. I am embarrassed to say I was pretty convinced a few days ago the airbrush was defective, negative, it was me. Friday at work during a short break I bent up a piece of aluminum TIG welding rod into a bench side holder. Was a fun 5 minute project that has be very useful. I’ve also made a few mistakes over the last few days on trying to fill a few divots that stood out once the primer was on. I used a putty that never really hardened. So I eventually had to scratch it all off and strip the vertical rudders. I also tried tamiya putty , hot cold feet and removed it not knowing it would melt the plastic. Ugh. What a mess. Tonight i attempted the procedure again. I masked off the surrounding area Then used the tamiya basic putty again and thinned it with Tamaya thin glue and it performed better and it eventually hardened to were I could sand it. I learned a good lesson whenever your doing a procedure like this for the 1st time, do it on a scratch piece and not the model. Shallow divots in the rudders. They now look a little better. I am confident I’ll improve with the process with time. While practicing with the airbrush I put a few base coats on the propellers. You can also see in the blurry background I airbrushed the interior of uboat with flat black primer. I have no idea if that was a waste of time and paint or if it will make any sort of difference in the end.
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trumpeter missouri 1/200 with full pontos
Goji308 replied to steve5's topic in Work in Progress - Maritime
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Welcome to the party Mike.
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Hello Bish, Yes, I did a light dive into reading about the IXC conning tower and what I’ve read is inline with what you found too. Not sure at this point on this build what I’ll do. I appreciate you bringing up this detail though. Thank you! Yes I have a few 1:72 Uboat kits (4) now and look forward to going through them and building them. I believe I have most of the Revell 1:72 Uboat offerings. I would like to get the 05133 uboat IX C (U40/ U190). I think this might be the last kit I need for my collection. Thanks to this great forum I am learning new things all the time. This net cutter detail required some work to get it to stagger correctly. Off the sprue the middle-upper suspension would have been too tight , it had to be notched deeper. The middle /lesser support had to be raised to meet the bottom of the net cutter. Where the forward foot (base) there was feature that had to be removed, the whole net cutter was pretty finicky but came out positive .
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Recovery! After gluing the broken part (3 pieces) back together, I decided it was sacrificial at this point. After a quick search on google : properties of styrene, looks like it can be bent with the right process. 30 seconds in boiling water seemed to soften this small .020 rail enough to get past its brittle properties. Full steam ahead.
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Well a small setback today, I saw it coming before I attempted it. I was trying to hyper extend Revells stock part which comes totally flat on the sprue. Problem is the part is supposed to sit like a 3 legged tripod. Some sort of line or cable guide. So yea it broke as I was trying to extend the third (middle) leg out. Hmmm. I just might have to make these two parts out of something else.
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Today I spent a little more time cleaning up parts, taking them of the sprue, filing, sanding, prepping, etc. I did open a new toy. A badger Xtreme patriot 105 airbrush. Phew! Long name. Its been over 30 years since I had an airbrush in my hand it felt real good. I played a little with starting a base primer layer here and there. One small mention was after the light coating my light oil canning barely showed. I haves mixed emotions on that. We shall see how it ends up. Today I went by the local hobby store and noticed they had an 80% off sale on a few paints. That worked out pretty well. $7.00 for most of my paints.
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While making the kids waffles from scratch this morning I found a cool Revell kit that I have been looking to buy for for the future. It also came with a few extras, photo etch sheets, and a crew. (Most likely will not use the figures). It is the Revell 05114 IXC (late) uboat 1:72. I really like the configuration with the elongated MKIII conning tower, larger “winter-garden”, and AA flak cannons. This purchase made my day!
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Hello Bish, I appreciate the compliments and your post. That’s great your building a Type VIIC. I have several of those waiting in the wings. I wanted to cut my teeth first on this IXC. I do not have a wooden deck. This kit came with a plastic stock one and I am planning on just using it. A wooden deck upgrade does sound very nice though I must admit. I had not thought about the bulge nor was aware of a discrepancy/ issue regarding it. I better research a little tonight to see how most of the early IXC conning towers were configured. Thanks for bringing it up. If you could elaborate more regarding the “bulge” , I would love to know what you know, thanks.
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Welcome to the forums David.
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Today after work I had a few hours to experiment with “tin canning” or “oil canning” the IX. I think it really adds a nice effect . Going in pretty light with the tool, attempting to remove evenly and not gouge the contour. This picture is in the beginning of the process. The left side has been worked.
