Revell 1/144 Type XXI U-Boot

[mx]

Hello Kaleuns

As some of you may already heard, as i was grathering reference photos, i'm about to start building my first submarine model.
I've picked the Revell's 1/144 05004 kit, because as i've heard it's the best one you can get, most detailed and offers the most decals/camo options. It's big enough to actually see the details of kit, and small enough to put it in my bedroom when it's finished. I's also not so hard to build, and the scale will let me make my own scrap-build parts if needed. I haven't really build any kind of model for years now, so i treat this one as if it was the first ever.

The purpose of this topic is to share the whole building process with you aswell as crying for help when i'll need it and i can asure you i will
I hope that all those friendly neighbourhood model builders will share some tips

The kit arrived today:



it was the last #05004 model in stock, so i guess i was lucky.



and this is what the box content looks like:



I'm looking forward to start building it, but that will have to wait another week or two due to lack of proper equipment


As I've said, i'll use this topic to ask questions aswell, so here's my first one:



Was these 'holes' really cut out ? or just marked/painted on?
I'm not sure, because there were so many variations of the XXI sub, at least on the photos i've found so far, that i've got confused.

mx.