After my experience with ITALERI MAS 500 published here,
I have retry in 1/35 naval modelling with BORDER MODEL U-BOOT VII and now I may show synthetically my work .
First of all I reduced lenght of model, truncating in front and behind, in order to have smaller size.
Then, after coloring the deck, I have approached sea with usual process, foam sheet, play dough and alluminium foil all over to simulate rough sea
Payne Grey oil painting and synthetic fibers from kitchen filter hood to simulate waves
Gun mountig is a simple job, a model in the model
Also the conning tower doesn’t present difficulties, I used artillery handwheels, instead of the flat PE of kit, for the hatches
BUT…
here I found the big flaw of the kit…the top protection from waves is resolved with a continuos inverted U instead of curve protection or spaced protection.
In order to exemplify:
Curved protection at the top
Spaced protection at the top
So I acquired an after market spaced protection and after some erase work I modified the top of conning tower.
Then I choose my ‘MITTELMEER U-BOOT’, exactly U-83, not a succesfull boat but with an interesting camouflage feature and moreover a U-BOOT VII B with the same sail
Weathering, shadow, saltiness, rust all over and market decals
The whole package to complete the tower
With the crew
In order to complete I simulate the wiring, cutting it off in lenght because bow and stern there aren’t to link
See you on the next episode fo the complete photo shoot…
bye.
