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Revell type IX Full build Review
Topic Started: Sep 30 2015, 01:19 PM (648 Views)
Mark M
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thanks Simon

ok more progress on the conning tower, this is where you need 5 hands and tiny fingers, care has to be taken removing the rails from the sprues as they are easily broken

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Lt. Derek 'Smurfy' Reeve
Definitely looking like a sub now, nice work.
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Mark M
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thanks Del

well last night i started the conning turret 'fencing' and after an hour i had to walk away as it would not go together at all, this moring 2mins and it all fit like a dream :dead

this is made of 3 pieces that inter lock

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then the frame work sits in the holes, i found it easier to use the buccaneer approach, put in 1 or 2 legs then walk away, then glue 2 more and so on and so on


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i have sub fencing!!!!!!

only got to do the whole main deck now!
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very nice, is the fencing bit thick. or am I being thick. :)
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In scale terms, the railings might be a bit on the thick side, but there's probably a limit manufacturers can go to without making something so delicate that it would be almost impossible to cut an item that size off sprues without breaking it.

The Lynx helicopter I recently built has exhaust cans that if scaled up to reality, would give a wall thickness of about 4.5cm!
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Mark M
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your right they are a bit thick for scale, however there is no way on earth even with etch you could get them to scale, and trust me they are a night mare even at this thickness
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There's a lot going on in that tower assembly.
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Mark M
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ok she's 99% build and goes together pretty well if you have a little patience, i really want to weather her but im worried ill mess her up

things to do:

decals
fiddlybits
weathering and then.....
rigging

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It looks good without the weathering!

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Lt. Derek 'Smurfy' Reeve
Go for the weathering, you cannot muck it up as think about 3 or 4 months in the Atlantic, it would be DIRTY.
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ive started giving her a wash, i found a jar of AK Kreigsmere wash i bought a couple of years ago and never used so i thought id give that ago

however i wont post piccys up till i have finished the wash
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guys i need your opinios ive done the wash and started to add rust streaks but im not sure how it loos, i plan to finish the rusn add some dry brushed metal and some soot

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Lt. Derek 'Smurfy' Reeve
Nowt wrong here Mark
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RIGGING HAS STARTED!! :dead

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Lt Paddy 'Chancer' Boyle
Thats looking good, Mark.
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