My Trumpeter VIIc build

[Ralph --- SSBN 598]

Such detail is amazing.
Would you mind if I asked what sort of magnifying glasses do you use, if you do?
I have come to the point that I need help seeing what I am working on.

[drschmidt]

I still work without....

[Ralph --- SSBN 598]

Well now. . . .I am so envious.
Turns out, Tuesday, I will be next door to a big industrial tool shop.
I will take a look at what they might have.

The real issue is, I only need to paint 2 parts.

Think while I am out Tuesday, I will drop in on a friend who is an artist and makes her living painting.
Don't know if she does small stuff but more interested in straight lines and circles on 1/4" parts.

Thanks for responding.

[drschmidt]

But waht I did: I bouht a propper light for my paint work. Without bright and neutral light I'd have no chance to get the detail work done....

[drschmidt]

Test fitting of the second section....looks good! But still allot to do. I designed some cool ammo boxes for the ammo bunker. The things in the kit don't hold up to the standard of the rest of the model. The ceiling of the officers rooms has to be painted and the LEDs installed. So enough to do before I can start with the control room.

[drschmidt]

This time only one pic...the work of the last two weeks: The wall of the central control room. Quite some work as there are so many details to paint and weather.

[steveneill]

Outstanding!

[drschmidt]

Thank you very much....

[drschmidt]

Still wrapping up the officers rooms and the battery deck, but I also started on the structure for the control room. The lower decks section is completely wrong again and a mere copy of the CMK resin kit for the 1:72 Revell VIIc. The control room floor has a second floor called Bilge, where waste water accumulates. The front part of the lower deck is part of the bow fuel oil tank. Then comes ballast tank 3, followed by the aft fuel bunker. The ballast tank has been enhanced by additional bulkheads and pressure tight end caps (3D printed). The Bilge was modeled using styrene. A bit of weathering and that thing looks like something....




A scratch built detail in the ammo bunker below the officers rooms: A shelf for aluminum ammo boxes. The boxes were CAD-modeled, 3D-printed, than a silicon mould was taken and the boxes reproduced using resin. Thee frame of the shelf is styrene again:

[drschmidt]

Rough test fitting of the components for the control room:

[drschmidt]

Another update...doesn't look like much but the details eat away the time. Control room floor and ballast tank are almost done. The bow bulkhead of the control room is almost done too (just some hand wheels missing).




Still some work on the officers room. Keel has been closed and the bow oil tank got it's black color. Next is the LEDs in the ceiling and then just some touch up work.

[drschmidt]

Control room starts to look like something:

[sam reichart]

Awesome work, as usual. Can't wait to see that section mounted in the model. How is the scope detail?

[drschmidt]

"How is the scope detail?"

I'm not sure what you are referring to....

[sam reichart]

apologies! do the periscopes line up well with the internal configuration? are you going to have to work around any poor fit, or make modifications on the tower itself so that things line up?