1/48 Hachette U96 Part 23
So moving on next we have the decking being fitted no issues here just 14 sections from bow to stern basically glue each one down next the previous until you get to the stern
Next comes the fun bit making the stand and nameplate I chose a sea blue to contrast with the black stand
Next up is the net cutter the supports were unusable as you were supposed to bend the brass work into a 90 degrees angle but both sets of supports were twisted out of shape and unusable so I fashioned my own using some brass strip off cuts once painted you couldn’t tell the difference
Also a multitude of tiny triangular angle plates were added in numerous parts of the deck along with the 2 torpedo loaders as they call them which were made from several brass strips then a copper tube was glued on top along with end pieces again made up of several brass pieces why they just didn’t use a thicker piece of brass or plastic is a mystery to me instead of multi glue several pieces together which just needs the glue to fail and it will separate into its component part whereas they could have used moulded plastic
Next come some more decking details along with fitting the conning tower the main gun and 2 main hatch’s all of these items have tiny parts attached to them see the pictures to see the details they mostly are tiny eyebolts made by bending a brass piece around a former I used a 1mm drill shank to get the curve radius
Then comes to fitting the main railings to the deck as you can see time for a power tool to drill the holes for the railings to fit into as all they did was mark them out on the deck and left it to the builder to drill out the holes
To conclude this section next comes all the insulators construction again made up of in some cases 13 separate pieces which again they could have moulded it from a single piece of plastic
Finally a couple of pictures of the sub to show how it’s progressing still got some hatch covers to add a bit of clean up and then the aerial rigging to finally finish it off
Regards
Colin[ATTACH]426740[/ATTACH][ATTACH]426741[/ATTACH][ATTACH]426742[/ATTACH][ATTACH]426743[/ATTACH][ATTACH]426744[/ATTACH][ATTACH]426745[/ATTACH][ATTACH]426746[/ATTACH][ATTACH]426747[/ATTACH][ATTACH]426748[/ATTACH][ATTACH]426749[/ATTACH][ATTACH]426750[/ATTACH][ATTACH]426751[/ATTACH][ATTACH]426752[/ATTACH][ATTACH]426753[/ATTACH][ATTACH]426754[/ATTACH][ATTACH]426755[/ATTACH][ATTACH]426756[/ATTACH][ATTACH]426757[/ATTACH][ATTACH]426758[/ATTACH]
So moving on next we have the decking being fitted no issues here just 14 sections from bow to stern basically glue each one down next the previous until you get to the stern
Next comes the fun bit making the stand and nameplate I chose a sea blue to contrast with the black stand
Next up is the net cutter the supports were unusable as you were supposed to bend the brass work into a 90 degrees angle but both sets of supports were twisted out of shape and unusable so I fashioned my own using some brass strip off cuts once painted you couldn’t tell the difference
Also a multitude of tiny triangular angle plates were added in numerous parts of the deck along with the 2 torpedo loaders as they call them which were made from several brass strips then a copper tube was glued on top along with end pieces again made up of several brass pieces why they just didn’t use a thicker piece of brass or plastic is a mystery to me instead of multi glue several pieces together which just needs the glue to fail and it will separate into its component part whereas they could have used moulded plastic
Next come some more decking details along with fitting the conning tower the main gun and 2 main hatch’s all of these items have tiny parts attached to them see the pictures to see the details they mostly are tiny eyebolts made by bending a brass piece around a former I used a 1mm drill shank to get the curve radius
Then comes to fitting the main railings to the deck as you can see time for a power tool to drill the holes for the railings to fit into as all they did was mark them out on the deck and left it to the builder to drill out the holes
To conclude this section next comes all the insulators construction again made up of in some cases 13 separate pieces which again they could have moulded it from a single piece of plastic
Finally a couple of pictures of the sub to show how it’s progressing still got some hatch covers to add a bit of clean up and then the aerial rigging to finally finish it off
Regards
Colin[ATTACH]426740[/ATTACH][ATTACH]426741[/ATTACH][ATTACH]426742[/ATTACH][ATTACH]426743[/ATTACH][ATTACH]426744[/ATTACH][ATTACH]426745[/ATTACH][ATTACH]426746[/ATTACH][ATTACH]426747[/ATTACH][ATTACH]426748[/ATTACH][ATTACH]426749[/ATTACH][ATTACH]426750[/ATTACH][ATTACH]426751[/ATTACH][ATTACH]426752[/ATTACH][ATTACH]426753[/ATTACH][ATTACH]426754[/ATTACH][ATTACH]426755[/ATTACH][ATTACH]426756[/ATTACH][ATTACH]426757[/ATTACH][ATTACH]426758[/ATTACH]
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