1/35 scale type 23

[He Who Shall Not Be Named]

Looking good, Mark. I want to see if you have the same 'dive-of-death' issue with this model that I had with mine. I expect a full report soon!

Yes, Kevin McLeon's electronic devices are the way to go in this hobby. Love his stuff!

M

[greenman407]

Sure enough. If youll recall, earlier in this build thread, I had this boat in the water several times in Clearwater, at Duck lake. I got it all sorted out there. The handling was nice straight and consistant. I didnt have any problems once I got the Thor adjustable APC dialed in. Well since then the Thor APC started doing its jittering thing on its own. I CANT STAND THAT! So into the trash it went. The occasion of my previous testing is found in this particular thread on page 12

[greenman407]

Nice work Mark, you''re getting there, as for the scope, the lenght had to be that long because of the schnorkelmast, with the scope you just can see over the schnorkelhead, during underwater travel they tend to go up and down, in real live there was a kind of mechanical levelkeeper onboard, it wasn't that accurate, so the boat went up and down within a few meters, when your scope is too short, the conningtower will break through the surface, a captains nightmare.
Correct me if i'm wrong, but the germans used 7 or 9 meter long peroscopes, depending on which boat, on my type VII they are 9 meters long.

Manfred.

Dont ask me, I jus
t work here, besides you are the German sub expert, you and Vonhilde. Speaking of Von, I
havent seen him post
latel
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on patrol.

[MFR1964]

Sometimes he's crawling around on my Ko Hyoteki thread, peppering me with usefull historical information,




This one is for you Mark, a rare picture from the XXIII scope and snorkel, you can see it's reaching into heaven, just like the snorkelmast, on my model i left them shorter due to the use of the 2,5 SD

Manfred.

[greenman407]

Thank You Sir! You ARE a Scholar And a Gentlemen......all rolled up into one!

[greenman407]

I dont like losing propellors. As you know , Ive lost a few. So, to that end I started sticking a drill bit in the set screw hole to put a mark on the shaft. Then pulling the prop shaft out, I drill out that mark until the set screw will go into the hole. Then after you put it together, some blue loctite will do the rest.

[greenman407]

Today I continued with the painting. Using precut widths of masking tape, I used them to set the width of the white diagonal line I needed to paint. 3/16" suited me as 1/4" seemed too wide. Yesterday I painted some dark Grey. I was having trouble getting the airbrush to spray. Everything was clean and open but it turned out that the low temperatures had thickened up the paint I was using(rustoleum) and I didnt have any thinner for it. So I turned up the pressure to 45 lbs. And opened up the flow to get it to spray. It came out well.I need to paint the white line on the starboard side, glue in the planes protecting fins on the four corners, mount the walk boards and spray on some clear flat finish and we are done.

[greenman407]

Today I painted the white stripe on the other side and installed the Bow and stern plane protector fins. I can tell you right now for any of you who plan to re-create this paint scheme, that 3/16" is too wide. I didnt realize that until I saw it on the models port side after I removed the masking tape. OH WELL! Such is life. Im not going to repaint them..................at least I dont think I am. Too many other Irons in the fire.

[trout]

What about getting 1/16" pin striping tape or masking tape and lay it down over your stripe? Then after you paint the bottom paint and top paint when you peal off the 1/16" tape you will have your finer line.

[greenman407]

Thanks Tom. Everything else is already painted. We will live with it for a while and see how it works for me. Maybe itll be ok

[greenman407]

I mean its not like its horrible or anything.....just perhaps a bit over stated.

[greenman407]

Got some touch up to do as well as repairing the rudder. Seems like the set screw on the rudder itself has stripped out and the rudder flops around. Then a final trimming.

[He Who Shall Not Be Named]

What a screaming POS! Could you possibly make that boot-topping any wider???? And what did you apply that paint with .... a power washer. God! ... after looking at those pictures I feel like I need a shower and scrub-down with Commit cleanser!

That waterline at the stern does not end in a 'point'! It rounds the stern in a tight radius. Next time use a Machinist's surface gauge/waterline marking tool!

M

[greenman407]

Right you are Sir! (wink...wink)

[MFR1964]

Mark,<br />
<br />
Nice job on the painting, still i wonder myself about that white line, never encountered this on the pics i have, only the french one has a kind of white like scumline, on the other hand, if you like it, keep it that way.<br />
Now hit the water!!!!, and let her swim!!!<br />
<br />
Manfred