1/350 U-Boot Typ VII C

[Steve Jones]

Words fail me Wouter. Absolutely staggering art work. One of your best mate

[Wouter]

Guys, many thanks for the great comments, sure keeps me motivated. And I have some news for you: you won't have to wait to next year for next update...because here it is :smiling2: .

I've been playing with oil paints to change the seascape and enhance it a bit. Hard not to go overboard with the effects, but one of the perks of oils is that you have some time to adjust things. I know Werner de Keersmaecker and Marijn Van Gils use acrylics to do these effects but I'm just not that brave

One of the key elements is not to use plain whites to do the wake effects. I used mainly Abteilung Faded white which is more grey in tone. I also added a bit Blue Green here and there. Almost there, but not quite. And the most dreaded thing of all needs to come as well: the rigging :smiling5:

Cheers

[Neil Merryweather]

Fabulous!

[boatman]

SAME as Neil :thumb2:

[Guest]

Marvellous. Really beautifully done Wouter.

[langy71]

Knocked it out of the park mate, excellent stuff indeed..

[KarlW]

Fantastic.

[Jim R]

Hi Wouter
That is superb.
Jim

[Guest]

Wow :smiling3:.

[scottie3158]

Wouter,
That is an excellent result you really get the feeling of a deep cold sea.

[spanner570]

A cracking build, Wouter, coupled with a very nice sea.

Don't worry about the rigging. The fore and afts from the conning tower are straight forward. However, I found on this size U. Boat, the safety wires either side of the conning tower tricky, especially keeping the two wires parallel to each other.

Judging by the quality of the build so far, you will have no trouble what so ever.

Ron

[JR]

Wow, that is something else. Brilliant Wouter. :thumb2::thumb2::thumb2::thumb2::thumb2:

[Jason Crausby]

Brilliant!

[Steve Jones]

Guys have said it all.Outstanding work all round. A real piece of art. Thanks for sharing

[Wouter]

Gentlemen, many thanks for those awesome comments :smiling2:

A cracking build, Wouter, coupled with a very nice sea.

Don't worry about the rigging. The fore and afts from the conning tower are straight forward. However, I found on this size U. Boat, the safety wires either side of the conning tower tricky, especially keeping the two wires parallel to each other.

Judging by the quality of the build so far, you will have no trouble what so ever.

Ron

Ron, thanks for the vote of confidence mate. The wires in front of the conning tower where a pain in the backside alright

So, the rigging has been done.
I used Uschi van der Rosten's Rig That Thing Superfine Size wire which is...ridicilously thin :surprised:. With the naked eye it is barely visible but that's how it's need to be at this scale I think. All too often you can see ship models with overly thick wiring.
Having that said, that also makes it very difficult to apply: it's not easy to keep attached between your tweezers, and even with my Tamiya goggles it was hard to see the wire during application.
But shaky hands, some perseverence, CA glue and a lot of swearing later it has been done :tongue-out2:.
I must say I'm well impressed with the Uschi wire...it glues very easily and it can be stretched very hard...amazing stuff.
The rigging isn't 100% to my satisfaction, but it isn't bad either.
The insulation balls on the wire were a different thing. Initially I wanted to brush small blobs of paint on the wire but that didn't work out, it's like the wire is the +side of a magnet and the paint a + too...doesn't adhere well. So, next try: small blobs of Micro Kristal Clear. That did the trick. When dry it becomes translucent, so I painted it using Humbroll 32 matt dark grey.
The hull received another application of Vallejo Still Water to make it wetter (another application might be needed) and this is how she looks so far. Finish line is coming close!

Can you see the rigging? oop:

And just to show the sense of scale with an every day object

Cheers