Submersible discovering a lost U Boat

[spanner570]

Coming along a treat Peter.

"I just attacked it..." There is no other way to do hull damage. Faffing around looses the effect. Fortune favours the brave!

I'm chuffed you think my boat good enough for initial reference purposes.
Although judging by your work on the outer casing, 'help' is the last thing you need...

Nice one.

With the exception of where the light will illuminate the marine growth, painting and blending in the rest of the boat grey/ blue is by far the easiest option. Well, that's what I found with my attempt at a deep down wreck build.

Ron

[Peter Gillson]

I've been pondering on the front of the case, just plain wood might look a bit bland.

I placed the sub in an old box and used two 'L' shapes of card to replicate the hole in the front I worked out the rough size of the hole and the rough size of the box itself.

in the past I used some pine to make the front of the case] but this time the hole can be about the size of a photo frame so I have decided to use two (cheap) photo frames. The plan is to fix one inside the other with wood filling the gap, forming a slightly recessed detail. the frames are greay but I intend to paint them, either black of dark blue.



Peter

[Peter Gillson]

Hi guys

Finished this one. one 'problem' with boxed dios is the time it takes to make the boxes! Luckily my other hobby is woodworking.

here are a couple of photos:

with the light off:



and with the light from the submersible on:



Peter

[Mickc1440]

Wow that came out of nowhere, it looks superb Peter

[Mini Me]

Nice job on this one Peter. Looks good under both light effects. :thumb2:

[Peter Gillson]

The biggest issue I have is that the umbilical cable is a bit big - this is due to having a support wire as well as the two power wires. Any ideas how I can make this thinner?

[Mini Me]

If it's not too heavy I would try a piece of hinge pin or what we yanks call piano wire. About .030 dia.

[Peter Gillson]

If it's not too heavy I would try a piece of hinge pin or what we yanks call piano wire. About .030 dia.

That sounds like what I'm using - the wire used is just ofer 1/2 mm which is close to 0.30. iI've tried some thinner wire from the garden (the type use for tying plants, and it is not strong enough.

Peter

[Waspie]

That does look very good and as Rick says, under both light effects!!

[Mini Me]

If you are using piano wire, you won't easily be able to bend it without exerting considerable force....an easy test to perform before going to the trouble of trying it on the model.