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7Youngs

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    Braintree, England
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    WWII aircraft and U-Boat modelling. Bowls, fishing, golf and playing and listening to music (pref Prog Rock).

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  1. Agreed...... mine ended up in a similar state. But no photo of the remains! I scratch built a replacement stand using plastic sheet and rod and bits of the PE. I like your idea of using component leads though - I wish I had thought of that 🤔 - it's a lot easier! I'm guessing that this was a maintenance/repair bench. The cylinder may have contained oil, or was a heating element. The vertical pipe should go up to the deck head so it's fed from something above? PS. A word of warning - when you fit the deck head (ceiling) you may find that the fresh air fan mounted from the bulkhead hits one of the boxes on the deck head. I rectified this by cutting down the shaft on the right-hand side of the fan and re-attaching to the pipe.
  2. He hasn't included any of the sail and deck crew. I have made and painted all 48 supplied with the kit and intend to include as many as possible without obscuring detail. The subs were incredibly cramped esp at the start of a mission with all the stored food. The kit doesn't show this because you would lose a lot of detail if everything was fitted. It's a compromise.Yves has done a great job of representing this though and i will be interested to see what he does with the crew.
  3. Quack isn't the word! A real shame that they got this wrong. I found this video which I thought you may be interested in: - Sound is terrible but I wondered if you had seen this as some of his detailing is similar to yours especially the added bunks in crew sections. There is clearly a see-through section of the sail on the Starboard side. Maybe he cut out a small section of the non-clear part or maybe he swapped a section from the non-clear side if that's possible?
  4. I did wonder if a 3mm LED would fit. Fortunately I have some SM LEDs in green/red left over from a previous build so I will probably use these. They fit neatly between the strips of copper on Veroboard as below: - A challenge to solder, but worth it. By the way, is there a reason why you've left the Diesel engine compartment? I'm currently building this and would be interested to see how you handle the build and colours for the engine, and the PE table stand (PE5). I had considerable difficulty with this part and will scratch-build my own using plastic sheet. Good luck...although your skills are better than mine with the PE I think. Sail assembly is looking good.
  5. Hello fellow engineer - we are not alone! Yes, I may well start a blog for my build. It would be useful to see an 'out of box' build alongside your 'super-detailed' build, although it gives me a 'naked' feeling doing so ....if that makes sense! 😲😳 Here's the schematic of my lighting circuit: - Parts in dashed areas will be on stripboard (Veroboard), as you did with the trimmer pots under the base. I will use separate resistors to balance the light level in the Control Room to the other compartments. As you rightly say, it's not worth getting PCBs made for this. I would highly recommend the fuse F1, especially during assembly and testing...just in case!! Switch S2 selects either white or red for the Control Room/Sail lights, H1-5 being bi-colour LEDs - I can't remember if you did this. I watched 'Das Boot' and 'U-571' recently and I thought I noticed green and blue lights in one of the boats - is there any reference to these colours being used? If you would like your circuit drawn as above just send me a 'fag-packet' sketch. Files will be dwg/pdf/jpg format. Apologies for 'bombing' your blog. I promise not to again! More of your build please..... Paul
  6. Hello Yves, I have been following this thread since the beginning as I am also building this kit, but not to this level of detail as I am not as experienced with PE or weathering techniques. You have sure inspired me to re-think although I had already started the rear torpedo room when I found this forum. I can only add my praises to the others in saying what a great build this will be! On the subject of lighting, being an electronics and electrical engineer this is one area that I excel in and have done this with 1/24 scale WWII aircraft. For this build I have spent considerable time working out how I wish to install the LEDs and wire, which is not dissimilar to yours (different battery voltage mainly), and have drawn up the circuit. I can recommend using AutoCAD electrical, or Eplan (German version - for completeness!). If you wish to DIY then both of these are available as a demo download which will suffice for this project. The latter is easier for beginners, however I have access to the full AutoCAD on which I designed my display case so that's what I used. If I can work out how to load pics (and register on this site) then I'll post my schematic diagram. As a 'thank you' for your exquisite posts I am willing to draw up your circuit from a sketch if you wish?
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