The second ship to come out of the yard this year is this oldie,Arfix E- Boat.Got the kit secondhand from a freind at local modelclub and the kids swiped it and wraped it for xmas.Like i said oldie and it shows huge gates on the sprues making it difficult to remove parts some parts damaged or lost after getting launched into the air because of this also.Have had to source parts elsewhere for some.But it seams to be getting there a little bit at a time,putting it in to a dockside dio but not quite sure what to put on the dockside just yet any suggestions welcome.

Keith,
Looking good. Sure those Airfix kits might have some age on them, but they are sill nice. I have the same kit on its way to me and am looking forwad to it.

Thanks for sharing your work with us.

Ahoy Keith

Your effort looks great.

In all honesty far superior to my one see the Official Military Small Craft Campaign.

Ideas for the dockside - 1/72 Opel Blitz delivering supplies and some 1/72 figures (CMK or Revell)

Cheers



Sean

Looking very good Keith. Can't wait to see more.

Looks good so far, thanks for posting, look forward to the rest!

Hi Kieth,

Looking good so far. A few suggestions for the dock.

Ammunition crates
Crates of any kind
Lamp Posts
Fuel drums and oil cans
Fuel Pumping equipment
Food stuffs
Dockside fenders
rope coiled up
dock cleats for tying the boat up to the dock
Tools and tool boxes
Engine parts
Spare gun barrels.
Torpedo cart (with or without a torpedo)
small crane and pallets
Hoses coiled up (thick solder works good)
Seabags
Clothing
Signs in German (like "Fueling Area. No smoking within 15 meters)
Sign posts

HTH,
Steve

Thanks for the suggestions and comments will have to take a look at the local hobby shop to see what i can get for it the wife will be over the moon with me getting more stuff

Ouch!

You used the depth charges?!!! And the racks?!!!

They are realy bogus.

It was 40+ years ago when that mold was made,

And someone at Airfix was into the single malt.

andy

Keith,
Putting the Revell S-Boat alongside the Airfix one would show a good contrast. But I'm not sure if any of the early (Airfix) type boats were still in service when the Revell type got operational.
Or, you could try putting some allied equipment and vehicles/boats around and have a 'Just Been Captured' dio.
Please post some pics when your done.
Tom

Andy did not know depth charges where false,but i think they make the boat more mean looking.

Tom was hopeing to have this finnished for Scotish Nationals to go next to my revell s- boat.Have been having a good look through the spares box and have got some old row boats a shwimwagen and some fuel cans also got the revell figures.Not as good as the ones on the s-boat dio.

Keith,

I should not be the critic,

You actualy built the kit.

These days I just collect model boxes.

But do have a look at this image.

http://www.collectrussia.com/sBoot/longview.jpg

andy

Thanks so much for this link Andy it has given me some great ideas as to what to do with the kit and dio many many thanks.

More pics of dockside under way

Looking good, Keith.

After a weekend of bad wheather had plenty of time to do some more of the boat and dio.Mainly rigging up of some lamps for the dockside and a hut and more painting done. Unfortunatly will have to do some repairs to the aft railings on the boat they got snagged on my sleve wile rigging the boat not to bad though that super glue is good stuff.



Hope to get some more done shortly any comments welcome or suggestions for dio

Pictures are a little dark, but you are giving me ideas if I ever get a chance at building mine.

You've done a very good job!

I like this camo pattern.

Yes i like that cam pattern but was told that only the later boats such as revells would only have had those markins.Sorry about the darkness on pics but will have to set up some more lights in garage for taking them at night.Still could bee a night raide

Yeah, thats it, they are getting ready for a night raid.