When I get some daytime pictures without flash the effects will hopefully be more visible. I forgot to say that before the flat coats went on, certain weld lines were picked out in either RLM02 or with thinned down Tamiya X-19 Smoke. I'm fairly satisfied with the weathering on the hull so far. Other things to note - The guns aren't finished yet and the flag pole has been replaced with wire, for the simple reason that the plastic one was poorly moulded with lots of thick flash. In places it looks good though, giving a variation in tone and a salty look to some bits. The lifecolor turned some parts whitish (same happened on my Lancaster build) so I used the Xtracrylix to try and work some of the white patches out, and the major offending areas were given touch ups with watered-down base colours. The boat has also been flat coated with two stages, Lifecolor's flat base and xtracrylix flat varnish, in that order. The railings are in place (found them tricky little things) as well as a few little touches, like the life buoy thingy (not up on my nautical terminology!). The progress of late last night and early this morning: Was the vertical wooden planking on the inside of the conning tower natural wood colour or was it painted on late-war boats? I've seen it done as natural wood on an early Type VII and now I don't know what would be correct. Really all thats left is the rigging, so we'll see how well that goes and maybe I can wrap it up with some nice pics I've been doing more to the U-321 today and she should be finished by tomorrow. Also at this point the 20mm's were replaced with barrels from a 1/72 fighter kit (because I broke the orginals - no other reason!) I proceeded to give it another coat of varnish and then do things like the vents and holes. With that done I'll show you what the boat looked like about mid-week.Īfter spraying the second colour on the salt-covered hull, it was then washed off. Ok, I'll admit it, I've been neglecting my poor U Boat by focussing on wingy things for other builds, but no more! I have also realised that I've not been keeping a good photographic record of my build and for that I deserve to stand in the naughty corner.
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