Five hours later I think I have a handle on image albums and how to work with them.
Anyway rokket this is just the cleaned back bit of building the boat. From here on in the project requires restoration work. I know that the link to the S38 with “photo-etched improvements” will dive me deeper than I was going to go on this but it is a sabbatical so why not.
regards crayfish
link to album is
http://photobucket.com/albums/c149/crayfishing/Crayboat%20_S-100/
Nice pix, Crayfish, thanks for sharing. Love the brass rails you’ve made, any hints? (I’m planning some soldered brass myself, and am afeard rails will de-solder as I go…)
The two links show nice paint jobs with nice chipping, and I really like the waethered wood slates, tho i imagine they would be more like the German site (very detailed and informative, even in Googlish), Schiff/grey/black. The open tubes were a nice touch.
Rokket,
Sorry to not get back to you sooner friend (getting distracted by the potential in the 1/350 Bismarck kit!). The rails are 0.8mm rod and were not hard to do apart from burning my fingers in my haste to get things moving. I personally think it looks too thick so I’m going to a 0.5mm (0.020inch?) wire and see if that looks better. Ok here is some good info for soldering that will work for this type of thing, (100% for 1/72 U-Boats too [:)]) I hope that helps. Image hosting site will not allow indirect linking, so to get the story on this very good technique go to this site and check out Flak’s work.
crayfish
http://www.planetarmor.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=1203&st=15
You’re Aces, Cray. Thanks heaps. As far as scale sizes…yeah, they’re weird - sometimes 100% accurate doesn’t convey the feel. I might go slightly thicker (than true scale) for top rail because the top rail was actually very thick, and this might be shown better with tiny exaggeration.