The Ship Model Forum

carr wrote:Bill,

Alright, since you asked for comments...

Let me start by saying that I have followed your various builds with great enjoyment and, frankly, quite a bit of envy! This effort is every bit as good and enjoyable.

Now, to the comments. Some sections of the water near the hull and parts of the exhaust streams seem a bit "stringy" or "spiderwebby". It's hard to tell from the photos but unless you have photos that show otherwise, I would expect a lot of water to be running down the sides of the hull from the exhaust ports rather than totally expelled. The area of the hull under the exhausts should look wet. This leads to the next comment.

I'm always struck by what water does to the apparent color of hulls. Wet water tends to make dark colors, gray in this case, look even darker. The bow should have a significant amount of wet area. As mentioned above, same goes for the areas under the exhausts. Ditto for the extreme stern which should be continually shedding water. There are some darker colorations of the gray hull scattered about but I think those are meant to be weathering as opposed to wetness. Maybe I'm wrong?

Let me close by saying that what you've done is well beyond my capabilities and I have no solutions or suggestions for improvements, just my observations for what they're worth. If I had to try to make wet areas, I might attempt to spray/brush clear gloss with, perhaps, a bit of darker gray coloring?? Just thinking out loud.

Outstanding work and thanks for posting!

Regards,
Bob

Jimmy Conway wrote:Bill, wonderful building, congratulations.

Some criticism: I badly see the planking of the deck, and can't see too the safety tracks............. For me deck seems too smooth, or will you yet to improve it?
That is not clear for me if you have this build finished.........

See the photo, the sub is Capitaine:

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Best: Jimmy

The material used for the deck is scribed styrene from Plastruct. The scribing is not very well defined, as in plastic from Evergreen. A case of using the wrong material. As for the tracks you speak of and in the photo, I have no drawings of the layout of such tracks. Photos I have here taken in 1963 show no such track. In any event, I elected not to represent them, rather than do them wrong. Thanks for your comments.....