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Jake79 wrote:Impressive..do they get to leave the shelf very often? I guess its pretty difficult to find some where to take them out.

I'm quite lucky that I have a fairly local model boating lake at bury so at one point I'd usually sail at least twice month, usually more. There's a few big sub meets as well which I try to get to, so they get a fair bit of use. Submarines tend to work better when in regular use.

Horses45 wrote:Tom you never fail to amaze me with your skill. I always like to follow your builds lol

Cheers man! Nice to see you back in the forum!

A little update, I wanted to put navigation lights on this one to both assist spotting her under water and to give a bit more intrest when on display. I found a uk supplier of pre wired nano (1mm!!) LEDs. To conceal the wiring on the planes I was going to drill a hole through for the wires to go but a couple of snapped drill bits later I gave this up. The wires are only 0.1mm thick so I scored a grove in the bottom of each plane and laid the wires in this once painted they should be invisible.

Led size



First led on.



And the full lot

Nice to see you have made your new workshop as tidy as your old one!!!

TKcommander wrote:Nice to see you have made your new workshop as tidy as your old one!!!

Shhhhhh!

After some false starts and setbacks I finally got round to giving her a maiden voyage.



I needs some tweaks but it's a start

Great stuff Tom, don't know a lot about sub's but looks the part to me and seems to work very well.

Hey guys, again I seem to have skipped a few steps but she's now pretty much done. Just need to decide if I'm to add a little more weathering and depict the boat in afew years or leave as is.

I've given her a paint job, added depth marking, identification numbers and a Japanese naval ensign.

She had a run out at the bournville sub day and went very nicely.

Some pictures of the build.

Primed



Satin coat



Various black tones







Painted scopes





Markings and name









Weathering:











At the sub day: