It's the wooden deck mate. I scraped back through the paint and down to the wood in the areas of highest wear.

For the rust patches (which i kept to a minimum) i used Mig pigments mixed to a thin wash with turps.

I'll tinker about with it as the rest of the boat comes together but for know i'm a happy Savvy:yep:

That deck looks terrific.

Weathering....
 

Ok, a week off work and a trip to Weymouth armed with my camera to take pix of working boats in the harbour.

Some of the boats were quite new and some looked like scrap iron. It was the newer boats i was interested in. These go out every day and showed some really nice weathering on them, they are all well kept and have to go through similar conditions that U-Boats would have had to endure.

All weathering so far has been done with MIG pigments mixed to a 'paint' with white spirits. This is then painted on using a fine brush and feathered out with a clean brush dipped into white spirit. All stains, drips and runs were added following period photo's and my pix of the boats in Weymouth. I'm aiming for a look of newish boat that has been put to some very hard work out in the Atlantic.
All the work seen here will be sealed under a coat of acrylic matt varnish, this will (should) tone down the effect somewhat, we'll see happens!
Comments welcomed.

Sav.

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:up: Nice paintjob done, mate
love the weathering effect

HunterICX

I like it a lot Sav. One thing- is the deck lifting slightly at the bow?
Overall superb. :up:

It's lifting slightly all over mate as i've not fixed the decks in place yet. Why? I've no idea, just have'nt got round to it yet! A decision i may live to regret:o

Done some more this afternoon on the port side, there is quite away to go yet but i'm liking it so far.

Sav.

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Ok, She's know officially U-69:yep:

The flags and 'Horridoh' decal is quite possibly one of the trickiest i've ever had to apply, but i got there in the end. The laughing cow motif (Snorting Bull:-? ) come as seperate decals.

I had some new photo's sent to me of U-69, Cheers Dougie, that showed up some new details that i had missed, in fact out of the 9 photo's there were minor detail changes pretty much between all of them:o The appearance of 'La Vache Qui Rit' depicts my model at around April/May 1941. Also in evidence in the photo's are black painted railings on the CT.

The deck railings either side of the 88 will also have to be modified.

Sav.

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Looks lovely Sav. Is the wintergarten original, or custom?

I'd like to say that it's custom, but after God knows how many attempts at making my own out of brass wire i just could'nt get anywhere near where i would be happy with it once finished :stare:

So, i'm using the kit parts and thinning them down to suit.

Sav.

I had tried to work with the brass wire, knowing it will improve the kit a lot, but i think im the worlds worst at it. Im gonna have to learn a lot about soldering, before it is acceptable. Ive seen some lovely wintergartens online, but im puzzled how is done. People are mentioning the paste for soldering made by company called Koki. :hmm:

Good job You thinned the rails- it looks much better now.

Hello mate, i've got a pot of flux called 'Flux 2 Brass' by Gaugemaster, it works a treat. If you want to give it a try i'll send it to you as i don't think i'm going to be needing it again any time soon:-?

Give us a shout if ya want it, i've still got your address.

Sav.

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Hi Savvy.
I just ordered the Koki paste http://www.ko-ki.co.jp/top.html , im gonna have another crack at it. Advantage of this paste is- You dont use the iron to solder parts. All You do is apply small blob of paste, add the other part to it , and just heat it up to about 200 C.
If You dont need Your paste anymore, ill happily compare the 2 products, and let You all know which is better. :up:

Hmmm...Sounds interesting. Got to be easier than trying to hold a soldering iron and solder onto a stupidly small joint!

I'll send you the stuff i've got anyway, at least then you'll have a choice:up:

Sav.

weathering continues!
 

Lower hull. This was a right pain in the arse, it's taken four or five attempts to get it looking like this! My wife thinks "it looks a right bloody mess" so i'm happy!

I found some pic's on the net of a couple of U-Boats in dry dock plus some modern stuff, and then tried to copy the effects seen.

Comments welcomed, good or bad, it all helps.

Sav.

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BLOODY HELL, why's it done the photo's like that?