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Still working on it. In between life happenings.....I get bits of work done.
Did a bunch of sanding and reconstructing weld lines (which are washed out by the flash). The light gray came out a lot lighter than I wanted, so I will redo that. The bottom base coat will work. It is not black, but a very deep, dark gray. The new upper deck color will clean up the lower dark gray paint.
Thank you David. That was to give enough room for the float to drop because of the angle I have the sub sitting in the water. Here is a crayon drawing.
If you can cut, drill, saw, hit things and swear a lot, you're well on the way to building a working model sub.
I knew I was going to get beat up over this. Right you are, sir. But, weren't the early versions of the class floating at the 'designed' waterline?
You've made your case, Tom. I now slink away to a corner of the Cave to curl up into the fetal position and chant, "get your facts straight before you hit the enter key, get your facts straight ...".
Wonder why the trim change? Weapons expenditure, maybe?
David,
Great questions!
I have read two different scenarios.
1. Keep prop lower in the water - most likely answer. Even the Hai and Hecht kept the aft end low, shown in pictures from the 1950's and 60's
2. Loading torpedoes - but that, I would think, was just while in port.
I am not sure if early versions ran at designed water level. Will look for pictures and see. As I understand it, all could be trimmed to run at designed water level. It was not a case of not being able to, but more than likely more efficient to run aft end lower.
If you can cut, drill, saw, hit things and swear a lot, you're well on the way to building a working model sub.
I am still working on things. Made this past weekend a four day weekend and you would think I would have had a lot of time for sub work, but that was not to be.
I did work a bit on the Thunder Tiger Neptune SB-1 I bought from Mike. That should be water tested in the next day or two.
But for the Type XXIII, it is painting small parts and getting details added. I think I found the base coats that I like.
Here is the new gray (Dunkelgrau 51) on the deck compared to the plastic color. The original gray I used was way too light (almost looked white in certain lighting conditions).
This is the paint I used.
The hull base coat is this rattle can. It is a nice dark gray (or grey for our friends across the pond)
Other than that began painting periscope (should I make a mold of the scope just in case it gets knocked off some day?), I am not thrilled by the boxy look of the scope. Did it really look like that?
Anyways putting stuff on and will document later.
If you can cut, drill, saw, hit things and swear a lot, you're well on the way to building a working model sub.
I still have to wait for next spring for painting, don't have a sprayboot, i have primergrey in stock for the upperpart, and darkgrey for under the waterline.
As for your scope, it looks the same as the attack scope of the type VII or IX, scrap the one of Bronco and make one of your own.
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