Tcoat Posted March 17, 2023 Share Posted March 17, 2023 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. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jim B Posted March 17, 2023 Share Posted March 17, 2023 Nice looking U-boat. Well done. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TonyK Posted March 17, 2023 Share Posted March 17, 2023 The weathering really makes this look great. Nice job on the entire model. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lucius Molchany Posted March 17, 2023 Share Posted March 17, 2023 Looks good !is it a type 7 C? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Engine 51 Posted March 17, 2023 Share Posted March 17, 2023 Very nice. Always liked the “smiling sawfish”. Might have to hunt one of those kits up. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tcoat Posted March 17, 2023 Author Share Posted March 17, 2023 1 hour ago, Lucius Molchany said: Looks good !is it a type 7 C? It is a C. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PappyD340 Posted March 18, 2023 Share Posted March 18, 2023 Very nice, well done! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lucius Molchany Posted March 18, 2023 Share Posted March 18, 2023 Very cool! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joe Nunes Posted March 18, 2023 Share Posted March 18, 2023 Nice weathering work on this model project. Well done! 👍 Joe Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ace-Garageguy Posted March 19, 2023 Share Posted March 19, 2023 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. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
happy grumpy Posted March 20, 2023 Share Posted March 20, 2023 Great weathering. Not so easy at that scale. Beautiful piece of history. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tcoat Posted March 20, 2023 Author Share Posted March 20, 2023 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? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Warren D Posted March 20, 2023 Share Posted March 20, 2023 Nice job, I like your take on weathering Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
redneckrigger Posted March 21, 2023 Share Posted March 21, 2023 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! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mustang1989 Posted March 25, 2023 Share Posted March 25, 2023 Un frickin' believable turn out Tony. Your approach to weathering seems to work out very well with the way this one looks. Just beautiful work man. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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