Das Boot Done

[Tcoat]

Out of the box with the exception of antenna wires and insulators.

Painted with kit supplied "acrylic" paints.

Weathered with tinted Future and Citadel shades.

Total working time 10hours 39 minutes.

 

 

 

 

 

[Jim B]

Nice looking U-boat.  Well done.

[TonyK]

The weathering really makes this look great. Nice job on the entire model.

[Lucius Molchany]

Looks good !is it a type 7 C?

[Engine 51]

Very nice. Always liked the “smiling sawfish”. Might have to hunt one of those kits up. 

[Tcoat]

1 hour ago, Lucius Molchany said:

Looks good !is it a type 7 C?

It is a C. 

[PappyD340]

Very nice, well done!

[Lucius Molchany]

Very cool!

[Joe Nunes]

Nice weathering work on this model project. Well done!  👍

Joe

[Ace-Garageguy]

Great looking model. Needs a nice glass case to live in.

Funny...I'd never noticed the anti-foulers ahead of the forward dive planes before.

[happy grumpy]

Great weathering. Not so easy at that scale. Beautiful piece of history.

[Tcoat]

54 minutes ago, happy grumpy said:

Great weathering. Not so easy at that scale. Beautiful piece of history.

I have a sort of rule of thumb for weathering any subject. I take the scale and reduce it around 10% and consider that the distance I am viewing the subject from in feet. So the 1/144 foot uboat in this case would be weathered as if I was looking at it from 130 feet away. This gives a better effect when looking at a model as things are more in scale. For this example I used no actual rust tones since at that distance you simply would not see the actual colours it would just be botches that are different than the surrounding paint. If this was a 1/72 boat it would be a 60 foot viewing distance and you would actually see individual rust colors but they would still be blended and not stark against the rest of the paint. If this was a 1/24 scale boat (it would be huge of course) then you would see each steak of rust, chips, scrapes, etc since the "view" would be from only 20 feet away. 

Does this make any sense at all?

[Warren D]

Nice job, I like your take on weathering

[redneckrigger]

5 hours ago, Tcoat said:

I have a sort of rule of thumb for weathering any subject. I take the scale and reduce it around 10% and consider that the distance I am viewing the subject from in feet. So the 1/144 foot uboat in this case would be weathered as if I was looking at it from 130 feet away. This gives a better effect when looking at a model as things are more in scale. For this example I used no actual rust tones since at that distance you simply would not see the actual colours it would just be botches that are different than the surrounding paint. If this was a 1/72 boat it would be a 60 foot viewing distance and you would actually see individual rust colors but they would still be blended and not stark against the rest of the paint. If this was a 1/24 scale boat (it would be huge of course) then you would see each steak of rust, chips, scrapes, etc since the "view" would be from only 20 feet away. 

Does this make any sense at all?

Yes it sure does, at least to this old guy. I am currently building a couple 1/72 U-Boats....................only because my eyes can see the parts easier! That is a beautiful build!