Painting and Weathering
Spring has been busy and I've recently managed to give my boat a fresh coat of paint. For weathering this time around, I opted for a look that would depict the boat after a few weeks of patrol. That is, some salt water streaks on the lower hull with a few streaks of rust on the upper hull. The Type IIs were often sent out on shorter patrols in the North Sea at the start of the war, so I didn't want to make the boat look too weather-beaten. Too often I see U-boats being overweathered and looking like rust buckets!
Note that the railing on the upper deck have not been modeled, I like to hold the boat around the deck gun area when removing the stern hull from the forward section and I want to avoid accidentally bending the railings when I'm not careful.
On another note, the watertight integrity of the WTC has also been tested. I am ready to trim the boat!
Nate
Spring has been busy and I've recently managed to give my boat a fresh coat of paint. For weathering this time around, I opted for a look that would depict the boat after a few weeks of patrol. That is, some salt water streaks on the lower hull with a few streaks of rust on the upper hull. The Type IIs were often sent out on shorter patrols in the North Sea at the start of the war, so I didn't want to make the boat look too weather-beaten. Too often I see U-boats being overweathered and looking like rust buckets!
Note that the railing on the upper deck have not been modeled, I like to hold the boat around the deck gun area when removing the stern hull from the forward section and I want to avoid accidentally bending the railings when I'm not careful.
On another note, the watertight integrity of the WTC has also been tested. I am ready to trim the boat!
Nate
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