![]() ![]() I have filled the flooding holes on the top of the Bow and partially filled the three off free flooding holes at the stem. I am no Submarine expert, just an interested modeller, so please advise any more errors if you know of them. This is what I have picked up on so far and will correct all of it. The small holes in a row on the upper Bow are incorrectly spaced and the three holes per side at the stem are too big, incorrectly spaced and there should only be two on the starboard side. The central drainage areas are incorrect in length and the anchor is too far astern. There are no free flooding holes around the rear of the ballast tanks. The free flooding hole patterns are incorrect for the type being modelled. The Torpedo doors are too long, the holes around the torpedo doors are misrepresented as a result. It would appear Trumpeter copied the Revell kit as they have made the same mistakes!! They were not loaded to the ship or stored with the fuse mechanisms fitted. I need to remove the noses on the ones for stowage under the torpedo compartment. we don't need them all!! These took forever cleaning up the seams. a little simple in my opinion, but I have the Eduard BigEd set to help with this situation. Here we have the rest of the parts from the 20mm gun. yes I know, this is how you harden steel, but Brass is non ferrous. To anneal Brass you MUST quench it in cold water. There are videos and tutorials around that are simply wrong. You will find your part will have lost all springiness and will form like lead. Once the part is cherry red, IMMEDIATELY immerse in cold water. It needs to be cherry red all over so a lighter will not do all but the tiniest of parts. To do this I remove the part from the fret and simply heat it over a gas cooker flame. The secret to getting this right is to anneal the brass. ![]() If you are following Skipper Teds build on You Tube you'll see how much fun he had with this part. Here we can see the very fiddly PE mesh which goes around the plastic 2 piece frame for catching shell cases from the 20mm tower mounted gun. I have made a very small start on the kit so far as I am currently buried in the beautiful Thunder models Scammell Tank Transporter. ![]() On top of this we have a fret of 40 PE parts and of course the major hull sections. It has no less than 1137 parts over no fewer than 31 Sprues. I am going to show you all the progress as I dig my way through this massive kit. ![]()
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