Hello Skipper


Nice update on the Ko-Hyoteki (I wonder how that translates?).
Looks like a nice clean build so far. I hope you didn't run into any troubles along the way?

Did you accent the panellines on the conning tower with a pencil?

I just have a small remark concerning the “thing” just behind the conning tower. It looks like a securing or connection rod, but on the top side it doesn’t seem to be connected to anything?

As far as my minenleger is concerned , I decided to go ahead and “damage” her considerably. Better that than having to contact Revell for such a small piece which will probably cost me more to get it here than I’ll pay for a new kit.
I will firstly complete her with full hull, take pics, and put them online, after that I’ll let good ol’ Dremel have a go on her, making her waterline, and placing her in a dio.

Problem I ran into is that the deckplate (3 pieces) for the hull is so thick that I can not cut through it anymore to rip out pieces of the plating.. this way I can also not hollow them out to make the waffle-effect you mentionned earlier. I can’t put holes in these plates as a large hole in the outer skin would probably also make a hole in the pressurehull?
Now I’m looking to sand out a piece of a hullplate on the ballasttanks, and replacing it with sheetmetal and bending it slightly inward, with a few small punch holes.
Or sand down a few plates and bending the middle inward , would that look realistic? (like waffle-effect?

This is difficult, and I don’t want to overdo it, but on the other hand, the sub is so low and thin ( in comparison to the length) that it will be difficult to realisticly make her look damaged without people needing binoculars to see what damage she has…


brgds
Warvos

here's a first pic update on my Revell 1/144 VII-d.

I'm now working on damaging her, as you can see on the conning tower. Railing has been bent (or replaced with metal wire, small holes and scrapes added to the tower, and on the lower hull. After this I'll try to recreate a subtle waffle effect on the skin of the ballast tank (very thin plastic there... , and further work out the damage on the nose.
Still have a lot of work, but I love this model. I drilled out the flooding holes and the muzzle of the '88 on deck. Too bad I couldn't drill out the deckplates...
I have a question concerning the lifebuoy which is located on the conning tower (still missing now): in reality, would there be a rope attached to it, or not?
(i'd like to leave the buoy off, like it was ripped of due to the blast of the depthcharge which also destroyed the railing, and have it dangling on a rope a bit lower, or laying on the deck a bit further...

here's another update on my battle-scarred VII-d. Started reproducing a kind of waffle-effect, to represent the hull getting pushed in by the explosions of deptcharges. hull is now primed and still drying while I took pics. I now need to sand off the sides of the plates which still have too deep cuts in comparison to the rest, but I like the way it looks so far. The damage to the tower is now finalised. I will not try the waffle-effect on the deck, as it's just impossible to do without damaging the patterns on the walkingplates.

let me know what you think so far!.
Warvos

Hey Tom, you're doing a Los Angeles too? I'm doing the Baton Rouge as she was commisioned.

Hey Tom,

I have the Dallas vs Alpha kit in 1/350. They have the parts to make each of the three different types of LA class boats.

Believe it or not....I may actually have one finished in time...Steve is going to get through this campaign! (and the crowds did rejoice)...that is,...when is the end of this one?