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  • Miko
    SMF Supporters
    • Feb 2024
    • 582

    #271
    Impressive stuff! It'll make quite a conversation starter once displayed in your home

    Miko (wish I had room for stuff like this)

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    • Bri62
      SMF Supporters
      • Jan 2023
      • 1884
      • Brian
      • Widnes Cheshire

      #272
      This part is proving quite tricky the red devil wasn't on any backing film and very delicate the rest has to fit just right or it doesn't fit at all and you get gaps.

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      hoping to get the tower finished today (apart from the weathering)

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      • Bri62
        SMF Supporters
        • Jan 2023
        • 1884
        • Brian
        • Widnes Cheshire

        #273
        Well that was a pig to do!!

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        • Waspie
          • Mar 2023
          • 3488
          • Doug
          • Fraggle Rock

          #274
          A pig maybe but excellent non the less Bri!!

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          • minitnkr
            Charter Rabble member
            • Apr 2018
            • 7542
            • Paul
            • Dayton, OH USA

            #275
            Excellent work here.

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            • Bri62
              SMF Supporters
              • Jan 2023
              • 1884
              • Brian
              • Widnes Cheshire

              #276
              What can I say its very fiddly the railings have to be glued one end let dry and manoeuvre it into place

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              a bit more work/weathering to do will be finished today hopefully

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              • boatman
                SMF Supporters
                • Nov 2018
                • 14490
                • christopher
                • NORFOLK UK

                #277
                HI BRI lookin ver good but lookin i cant see the hatch where they go down into the sub ?
                chrisb

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                • Bri62
                  SMF Supporters
                  • Jan 2023
                  • 1884
                  • Brian
                  • Widnes Cheshire

                  #278
                  Ok finished I think.

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                  Got to order some needle files before I tackle the air vents
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                  • boatman
                    SMF Supporters
                    • Nov 2018
                    • 14490
                    • christopher
                    • NORFOLK UK

                    #279
                    HI BRI you say its finished do you mean the whole sub as i cant see the stern with the rear planes an prop ? an the deck gun ?
                    chrisb

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                    • Bri62
                      SMF Supporters
                      • Jan 2023
                      • 1884
                      • Brian
                      • Widnes Cheshire

                      #280
                      Just the conning tower is finished lol I'll be quite a while on the sub just the drilling out will take me ages

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                      • Bri62
                        SMF Supporters
                        • Jan 2023
                        • 1884
                        • Brian
                        • Widnes Cheshire

                        #281
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                        • Mark1
                          • Apr 2021
                          • 4156

                          #282
                          Looking great Brian :thumb2:

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                          • spanner570
                            SMF Supporters
                            • May 2009
                            • 15414

                            #283
                            Cracking work Brian. Great to watch.

                            Just take your time with them there slots. No rush.....Carefully does it, 'cos there are farsands of them to sort out!

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                            • Ian M
                              Administrator
                              • Dec 2008
                              • 18271
                              • Ian
                              • Falster, Denmark

                              #284
                              Most impressive. that would be an interesting model in itself. Well painted and weathered as well.
                              I dont know how thick the plastic is for the outer shell but would really good if it was thinned by the holes/vents. I think it would be the icing on the cake. Sometimes the plastic is so thick that it is thicker than the hole is round and spoils the scale effect. Sometimes you can get away with just thinning the back of the part down and open the hole that way, without the need to drill. You said you had a 'Dremel' right`?
                              Group builds

                              Bismarck

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                              • Bri62
                                SMF Supporters
                                • Jan 2023
                                • 1884
                                • Brian
                                • Widnes Cheshire

                                #285
                                The plastic is very thick and I'm struggling to clear the vents etc just ordered some end mill bits
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