Gentlemen, many thanks for those awesome comments
A cracking build, Wouter, coupled with a very nice sea.
Don't worry about the
rigging. The fore and afts from the conning tower are straight forward. However, I found on this size U. Boat, the safety wires either side of the conning tower tricky, especially keeping the two wires parallel to each other.
Judging by the quality of the build so far, you will have no trouble what so ever.
Ron
Ron, thanks for the vote of confidence mate. The wires in front of the conning tower where a pain in the backside alright :D
So, the
rigging has been done.
I used Uschi van der Rosten's Rig That Thing Superfine Size wire which is...ridicilously thin
. With the naked eye it is barely visible but that's how it's need to be at this scale I think. All too often you can see ship models with overly thick wiring.
Having that said, that also makes it very difficult to apply: it's not easy to keep attached between your tweezers, and even with my
Tamiya goggles it was hard to see the wire during application.
But shaky hands, some perseverence, CA glue and a lot of swearing later it has been done
.
I must say I'm well impressed with the Uschi wire...it glues very easily and it can be stretched very hard...amazing stuff.
The
rigging isn't 100% to my satisfaction, but it isn't bad either.
The insulation balls on the wire were a different thing. Initially I wanted to brush small blobs of paint on the wire but that didn't work out, it's like the wire is the +side of a magnet and the paint a + too...doesn't adhere well. So, next try: small blobs of Micro Kristal Clear. That did the trick. When dry it becomes translucent, so I painted it using Humbroll 32 matt dark grey.
The hull received another application of Vallejo Still Water to make it wetter (another application might be needed) and this is how she looks so far. Finish line is coming close!
Can you see the
rigging?
And just to show the sense of scale with an every day object
Cheers