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good evening everyone thank you for comments and likes i made the decision to show more off the battery tank, rather than show other bits that are not in the kit like fuel/water tanks the cells were made up, painted in lifecolor matt black, drybrushed with Tamiya dark grey oxidisation by superglue being forced dry by using an accelerator 0.4mm wire for connectors a tank to be made up next to give it a proper home
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with the torpedo compartment nearly finished and the Engine room going to be a long term project i decided to start on the midships accommodation area under the main deck is the battery tank, and trumpeter made it to simple the kit call for all the cells to be placed on the port side and leaving nothing on the Port side, i will try and improve that, @yvesvidal showed a nice way of doing it, so i am basing my idea on that i propose to spread the cells across the hull using the kit floor as a template to get the cell at the correct height, but vision is restricted so i am looking at a way on how to improve the deck to look at the tank better NOT MY PHOTO
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HMS Granado 1742 Kit - CAF Model - 1:48 Scale
Kevin replied to cafmodel's topic in Wood ship model kits
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Engine room there is no space on a submarine, space is designed to have things put in it, so why o why is there nothing under the engines, it is/was full of hydraulic lines trim and ballast lines, fuel, exhaust, air, and on and on kit we have ....................................nothing so i am putting things in there, as to weather it can be seen it dont matter, and yes the pipes don't resemble anything, lol but no space
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to see a good one please see this here on MSW U-552 Type VIIc Submersible by yvesvidal - FINISHED - Trumpeter - 1/48 - Plastic - - Kit build logs for subjects built from 1901 - Present Day - Model Ship World™
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good morning everyone the torpedo lifting gear is better now having got rid of the kit bits, i left the chains long to help putting the deck head on lighting i need to put an inline dimmer and these new 3mm lights are getting quite warm i think the chain looks out of scale for now i will be leaving this compartment like this as i am still unsure of the diorama setting and possiblty rethink the lighting
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Good evening everyone thank you for comments and like i have done enough wiring for the hull i still have the bulkheads to do i removed the wire clips holding the wire runs in place, and replaced them with tape put a coat of primer over it all, including the bits i have done on the engine up to now
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Thankyou for that, and the photos,very nice indeed, its a real shame about the kit, anyone i am aware of in buildkng this have criticised just how wrong it is, however i dont have any decent accurate information to make mine any better than seeing what others have done
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good afternoon everyone what a brilliant idea off swopping the engines over, lol what have i done to myself, no regrets its just not turning out as expected, the space (well lack off) is being made worse by (a lack of space) anyway i plod on in my own way of making something good into a mess the engine still has another 80+ bits to be fitted, and each bit has to be altered, so its ongoing meanwhile another moment of madness to replace the molded wire on the bulkhead im using .4mm wire for this oh and by the way non of this will be seen either, i just want to try my skills out and avoid finishing the build by christmas this year i will put in at least another 10 cable runs
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lol you just never know when you might need to know how to swop a submarine diesel over
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good evening everyone the engine conversion will take me quite a while so here is some more progress, should you be interested the first of the outboard exhausts only requires the six pipes to be cut off, and turn the manifold upside down the rest of todays photos are trying to get some shape to the after end of the stbd engine, No its not perfect by a very long way, i need to see what it looks like after a bit of filler, more shaping a coat of primer
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good morning everyone thank you for comments likes and messages lol i now have realised the full amount of work involved in this idea i had everything now has to be rotated 180 degrees, and the easy bit is done, most of it will have to be scratched as i went along removing the ends of the block, i could have avoided taking the head off
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me again well i managed to turn the hull supports form the port side to the stbd removed some tabs and adjusted the bulkheads by cutting where the diesel support beams go, i don't suppose for a moment that the further I go into this that it will be easier, but for me thats a great start
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good morning everyone the forward torpedo compartment is coming to an end, just a few things that are in paint, but i am unable to fit for now until i decide how to set the build up in its final setting right for me its silly time i want to do something with this build that i have not seen before, or found on the net as discussed she only has one engine in the kit, which is a port side inboard , which has some hull framework underneath it there is no stbd engine or frame work under the diesel to support it either, i want to build a stbd side engine from the port side, using it as a doner unit the port one can be cloaked in covers whist welding work is carried out reason for doing this because i want to, as the kit does not represent the confined space they endured how am i going to do this? I dont know, but i mess it up im up a creek without a paddle both engines are symmetrical as in both sides have the controls inboard, which also means the blocks are different as well i am going to start with the superstructure first whilst i get my head around the best way to do this the boocks are the same but above that everything is 180 degs out
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good morning yes the lighting wont work like it is, it was just setup for now to see if the effect i was after was going to work, i work put un any lighting until the outer hull is ready, mush later on however i was quite happy with the results and it shows the areas i need to improve, loving this build, another surprise is the interest others have shown
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good afternoon everyone no lights not much achieved today, but i did a quick temporary wire up of the 5 leds in the compartment, im happy now as it is how I wanted it to look some lights i will change the lights to warm white and dim them later on in the build
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good afternoon everyone thank you for comments and likes the after bulk head went in after a primer and Lifecolour DKM50, picking out a few colours along the way next the torpedo stowage deck with just primer dkm 50 and Flory grime the torpedo's i never went the full hog on them, going to be pretty well hidden, alclad aluminium and a bit of brass for the props, Tamiya dark grey for the bang bit of the torpedo, i then put a bit of brass around one of them to simulate be secured in the stowage t a the bulheads are now fitted, just the deckhead left to go in the next couple days left to do torpedo crane torpedo tube rear doors lighting weathering, but not going heavy at all on the rust, she is a new boat going out on first patrole
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good afternoon everyone thank you for comments likes submarines never had space under the torpedo tubes, there was a multitude of pipes, strainers, and valves, so although this is artistic licience, i closed the gap in a bit, no one is going to be able to follow a pipe mig oil stain used under the tubes, my loading torpedo get the chop after a aluminium paint job and a new set of props the bunk beds from the kit were discarded as the bunks would have been raised whilst loading the fish sorry about the poor photos, i need one hand to keep it all together arrived today
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