Revell 1/72 S-100 & Flak 38

[Guest]

My next build will be the Revell 1/72 S-100. Here are the sprue and photo etch shots. I will not be starting for a little while, but I thought this is a start, and a good excuse to try out my son's new tripod and spot.


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[Gern]

This looks like a brass kit with a few plastic bits added!

[peterairfix]

I have this one so will be watching for tips

[Guest]

Going to follow this one, looks interesting

[eddiesolo]

Built this years ago, nice kit. Like the PE stuff.


Si

[Guest]

I have this one so will be watching for tips

Yes , learning from other people's mistakes is great . Just kidding, God knows my 2 threads must be very informative haha :P


This should be a good thread to watch with so much pe and a nice kit

[Guest]

When I was photographing this I was thinking that there is not too much to this kit OTB. There does seem to be more pe than plastic.

[Guest]

A small start on the photo etch decking. First I used a burnishing solution on all the photo etch, before I started. Now I am starting with the part that supports the forward gun. Which involves adding a could of hatches, each is made up 9 parts closed or 12 parts if displayed open. I did the first one closed, but the next one, that will go in the cutout I will do open. The hatch is on the lid of a lifecolor paint jar, for size comparison.


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[Guest]

Rather you than me mate.

[Guest]

Experiment with painting the wooden decking to make it look like dirty wood. I started with a base coat of pale umber, then thinned Tamiya deck tan, then a wash of wood brown (walnut) which is a very dark brown, then a wash of dark grey.


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[Guest]

Here is an update. The main deck is totally replaced by PE


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The photo etch deck. The boards are just placed on at the moment until I have painted the deck


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[Guest]

More photo etch done.


The hatch has been replaced as has the ridge around the gun tub and lined with photo etch


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The torpedo rails, I have made 8 brackets and 4 centre supports, and one completed torpedo rail


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[Guest]

Deck colour looks excellent Graham.

[ojays]

Watching this one!

[Guest]

A bit of progress on the bridge


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The rest of the pictures are the main and fore deck. The main deck needs a lot of touching up and some filling as the centre part which is PE did not fit too well as I screwed up a bit by removing too much plastic. The forward hatch has a replacement hinge as the original one fell off


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