To try making the water surface after a long time building aircraft, I decided to make a simple diorama with a small 1/350 or 1/400 ship first. When I got to my dealer's shop last wednesday, I immediately spotted a 1/350 VIIC/41 submarine from Flagman on a discount shelf. The kit is rather nice and well detailed, and the only missing thing are the railings for the platforms. You get a plenty of sub logos there, for the most german flotillas in fact, so you can also build quite each sub (with 2x2 20mm and 1x1 37mm turm) which had either no logos or only the flotilla logo on the conning tower. You also get a number of other guns, like the 8.8cm deck gun, earlier 37mm mount, single 20mm guns. The deck has the niche for a snorkel, but it would be easy to fill if you want a deck gun. The only thing which is bad is the radar antenna, and I might be replacing it later. I decided to go for the U-300, which was rather effective for a late-war boat, with 6 ships sunk.
I rigged the boat using the thin transparent elastic sewing thread, added the spare railings from Eduard's Yamato set, 2 L'Arsenal and 1 Goffy figures.
The base is a fibre-panel, i used some bits of resin pour blocks for forming the waves, with a bit of old putty to smoothen the wave contours, and then using the technique from Dominique Banton (see yesterday's tips and tricks thread) to form the water with toilet tissue and white glue. I painted the kit using a mix of modelmaster, gunze and tamiya colors.
I will frame it, take some better photos in the sunlight, and post it to gallery later...
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1:350 HMS Diana 1794 - nearly released
Further kits in preparation.
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