Rendezvous in the North Atlantic 1942

[Alan 45]

The ship is the Heavy cruiser DKM Admiral Hipper from revell , 1/720 scale and the sub is a scatch built type VIIc View attachment 78049

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[Dave W]

Looks good Alan .It amazes me how some of the forum members manage to get such realistic water effects.

 

[Alan 45]

Looks good Alan .It amazes me how some of the forum members manage to get such realistic water effects.

Cheers Dave , the way i use is maybe the simplest way of doing it although messy , I just use clear silicon then smooth it over with the back of a wet spoon , then just touch it in places with a dry spoon and lift off to make peaks on the waves , then just paint the tops white ,

The colour is just sea green painted on the board you use

 

[dubster72]

That's really good Alan, the only ship I've built was a Bismarck one by Matchbox when I was 10! Yours looks so much better! The water effect is excellent for such a simple technique.

Cheers Patrick

 

[downscale model art]

great work for 1.700 mate. the sea effect looks bang on scale too. how are you going to finish off the frame?

 

[Alan 45]

Cheers folks I appreciate the kind words

Rob I might just paint it black but it's like a PVC plastic Si might need to get a different paint as acrylic won't take to it

 

[eddiesolo]

Great work Al, looks superb and the sub just adds to it. Well done on the scratch building mate.

Si

 

[Alan 45]

Cheers Si glad you like it

 

[flyjoe180]

Great build Alan, Nicely sculpted sea scape, and the ship and submarine are well done too.

 

[Alan 45]

Cheers Joe glad you like it

 

[Polux]

Yeah!! I like it Alan!

The water effect is excellent, I'm agree with Dave, there are some members here that do the water perfectly :rolleyes:

Cheers

Polux

 

[noble]

nice work alan nice water effect simple concept and a very effective diorama, i like it.

scott

 

[Alan 45]

Cheers guys I appreciate it

 

[0ne48thtel]

Nice build Alan the sea looks excellent it almost has the feel of you wouldn't want to A O T in to it

 

[Alan 45]

Cheers terry I appreciate that

What's A O T stand for ?

It's Monday morning and that's the excuse I'm using :D

 

[0ne48thtel]

A**e over t*t mate

 

[Alan 45]

Cheers mate yeah you wouldn't want to do that :D

 

[spanner570]

Just found this...

I like it loads. Great ship, great sub, great sea.....yep, just great!

 

[Alan 45]

Cheers Ron pleased you like it , I might have a look to see it I can get a 1/350 scale hipper and do a similar dio this was great to do because of space limitations but I've decided to turn the box room into a display area so I can work on bigger projects

 

[yak face]

Great job Alan , cheers tony