Winter Garden / Paint

[bos10]

I'm a long way from painting my VII/C, but I'm working on the conning tower and one of the first steps is to epoxy the etched brass deck to the conning tower. I then realized that you can see the resin through the winter garden. Because the tower bends under the winter garden, it would be a hastle to paint that portion after the deck is epoxied. So, it looks like I need to get into a little paint well before I expected.

(1) Should I just paint the resin under the winter garden a flat black? None of the pictures that I've seen let you see through the winter garden.

(2) Preferences on type of paint / brand?

[hakkikt]

I dont know what model

I dont know what model you have and what scale. You mention resin, so this is probably one of the ~1/32 boats?

I think the fact that you can look through the deck is an asset. Visibility will be extremely bad, so I would paint anything underneath the deck in light colours with lots of contrast - for example, inner tower walls medium grey, pressure hull & fairings light grey, with recesses set off by a black wash and raised detail set off by white drybrushing.
Way too much contrast when you look at it uncovered, but just right when you try to see something through the deck.

All this assuming that (1) there is something worth seeing underneath the deck, (2) you dont mind the risk that you will see nothing except with a flashligh, (3) you dont mind people calling you crazy

[bos10]

It's an Engel which is

It's an Engel which is 1/32 or maybe 1/34? In any event, there isn't any detail under the winter garden. The conning tower is like a shallow bowl for half of the diameter of the winter garden. When you look down you can see the white resin which I know will look wrong once I epoxy the brass deck down. Sounds like you'd paint it gray rather than black.

[JWLaRue]

Well, I tend to look

Well, I tend to look at this differently.

I like to paint the insides, beneath the PE conning tower deck a dark gray to not highlight what's below. At the scale heights that we typically look at our model subs, you would not see anything beneath the deck on the real boat.

-Jeff