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Playing around with a little wave/splash effects just for the experience and experiment of it. Used cotton and acrylic gel.
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Here's a progress update on the IJN I-52 / Ocean Scene project. I settled in on the color for the water and have begun mounting the sub in the water after finishing the construction and painting of it. What you see here is a work in progress as I fumble my way through, experimenting with techniques to create action that creates the illusion of the boat moving through the water after just surfacing. Have more to do on the one side while the other side is bare for the time being. Working through this process for the first time, I didn't want to get too involved with the first try, but rather use this as a learning experience for other more detailed projects that I might want to try later. I am open to suggestions or constructive critiques that will help me through this learning experience. In many ways, I prefer this method of displaying my ship models.
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Your wood work looks superb, Denis. Seems like the Dumas models are primarily designed for RC, not so much for scale model displays. That's why there is only a single 2 blade prop including in the running hardware. Really taught me some things I did not know about PT boats here. Very interesting composite material.
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Your boat is coming along beautifully Denis. Does it come with all the fittings or are those extra? Over the Thanksgiving holidays, I had to replace my hot water tank as well. Good thing my sons were here to help me. That would have been a bear for just me. Had a hard time getting the tank to drain properly and that made it very heavy to get on the dolly and outside of the house. Once we got it outside, draining it was no problem. 🤥 Installing the new one was fairly easy, too.
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Learning as I go along here...I added some Tamiya clear blue and I think it gives the look of a little more depth. Later will add a clear coat, then pause until tomorrow when I can go to a craft store to pick up some gel medium. The medium will add improved wave effects.
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I learned it from another modeler. Very little white glue really. Bought a pint bottle and used less than a 1/10th of that.
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The whole board gets a coat of Mr Surfacer 1500 white. The a light preshading of 2 parts Tamiya medium blue: 1 part Tamiya green: 4 parts reducer Next will play around with some clear blue and clear green followed by an overcoat or two of Tamiya clear.
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Next another coat of white glue goes down over the whole base to take the sharpness off the ridges and waves in the foil.
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After the glue dried on all the small pieces of foil, I smeared white glue over the top of the entire thing. Next I used one big sheet of foil to press down on top of the freshly applied white glue, being careful to make the sheet conform to the previously random applied wrinkled foil pieces. I have set this aside to dry.
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I used scraps of aluminum foil that were randomly wrinkled, then glued to the foam board with white glue. Once the board was covered with these pieces of foil, it was set aside to dry.
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To begin the creation of my open water scene, I cut 4 pieces of Dollar Tree foam board to a dimension of 10" x 14" and sandwiched the pieces together using white glue. I used the submarine model to draw an outline of the hull onto the foam board, then hogged out the foam with a scalpel, keeping the stern area a deeper cut and the bow a shallow cut as I wanted the model to sit with the stern under water and the bow raising out of the water as if the sub was surfacing from below the depths.
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I read either the same article or a very similar one that told about the Avengers, the sonobouys, and how they sunk her. My goodness, the wreck is over three miles deep! No wonder no one has recovered the gold. Is a recovery from a depth like that even possible with today's modern equipment? It's a fascinating story for sure.
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That's years and years of Marine Corps marksman training right there Ken. 🙂
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I'm not going to bore you with the construction/assembly of the submarine as it's not very interesting, but will rather try to chronicle my effort to create the open water base where the sub will be displayed. There are more details to be added to the sub before it's finished and I start painting and weathering it.
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The new re-released AMT kits come with pad printed tire sidewalls, but the racing tires for the Galaxie were not printed. In the past, I have used a small paint brush to paint the raised white letters, but this time I ordered some white markers with .7 mm tips from Amazon to try them out on the racing tires. It's a lot easier to do with the white marking pens than it is with a paint brush.
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You know the old saying...you begin with the end in mind. The box top illustrates the plan, not the outcome. 🙂 Haven't fully researched it yet, but I wonder if anyone has tried to retrieve the gold yet? It's hard to believe no one has, unless it's too deep to recoup the cost to retrieve it. 20 metric tons of gold is quite a large sum of money. More than 1.25 billion dollars.
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Will use the 1:350 Ashima I-52 Transport Submarine to jump back into ship modeling. For a long time, have wanted to try my hand at creating an open water ocean scene diorama and have decided to use this sub as the featured vessel for the diorama. In June of 1944, the I-52 was enroute from it's home in Japan to German occupied France, loaded with some 290 metric tons of strategic materials including tin, tungsten, rubber, and 2 metric tons of gold ingots. They planned a trade with Germany for technology. The allies learned of this plan by breaking the Japanese code. They hunted down and sunk the I-52 in the Bay of Biscay.
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I believe I've got that Tommy Ivo kit in my stash somewhere. I built it one time when I was young and remember it being difficult to build it right. That car had the old Buick nailhead engines. Another difficult one to build from that same era was Mickey Thompson's 4 engine Challenger, the land speed record car. I think I have both of his speed record cars. The other one is a four cylinder blown Pontiac powered job.
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Give me some of that Buick 455 love...
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Locally, this man and his family were my circle track racing hero. Buzzie Reutimann. All the family boys were outstanding builders and drivers in every sense of the word. https://www.google.com/search?q=Buzzie+Reutimann&client=opera&hs=Puq&sxsrf=ALeKk03I4ZRb9KdVtabMvHZ1htCE_2G8DQ:1607871032729&tbm=isch&source=iu&ictx=1&fir=qV2siG4Q2zKx9M%2CAIGKM_pQX0IuoM%2C%2Fm%2F04_0_hj&vet=1&usg=AI4_-kQLFZNWjcj5tuT2vQJyMTeSrkSb3w&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjG9_-tmsvtAhVEmVkKHYhEA7oQ_B16BAgaEAE#imgrc=qV2siG4Q2zKx9M
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I always remember a quote from Smokey Yunnick that went something like this: "the only thing that beats cubic inches for making horsepower are rectangular dollar bills" 😄
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