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Offline Anakin

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Re: Flak boats conning towers...
« Reply #15 on: 20 Nov , 2009, 09:27 »
Quote from: rokket on 16 Nov , 2009, 23:44
was the other eye closed? ;)

 ;D Yes it was...  By the time i visited Laboe the tower  ( u-boats ct is closed always ) of the museum was closed because somekind of restoration. I might have to visit the museum again.  :)
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Re: Flak boats conning towers...
« Reply #16 on: 31 Dec , 2009, 12:58 »
It is getting interesting...  Since all 4 of U-flaks were VIIC boats and commissioned before aug 1942 except U-953 ( com.date 17 Dec 1942) first three of these had slotted deck. Only U-953 was
later built so she could have planked deck. So that could be the choise to build U-Flak from revells viic/41. But... The schnorchel pit and life raft containers in the deck...

Another choice is to try to fit the C/41 CT (modified) to earlier slotted deck...
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Re: Flak boats conning towers...
« Reply #17 on: 05 Jan , 2010, 14:55 »
Well it happened just as i thought!  I couldn
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Re: Flak boats conning towers...
« Reply #18 on: 08 Jan , 2010, 11:00 »
Ok the deck isn
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Re: Flak boats conning towers...
« Reply #19 on: 08 Jan , 2010, 17:03 »
planking looks good
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Re: Flak boats conning towers...
« Reply #20 on: 09 Jan , 2010, 06:26 »
                     Anakin.. Nice looking deck..Are those styrene strips you're using for planking? If so, what size are they?   
                         Bill
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Re: Flak boats conning towers...
« Reply #21 on: 09 Jan , 2010, 11:39 »
Really nice job thus far Anakin.  The planking looks terrific!

Ernest
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Re: Flak boats conning towers...
« Reply #22 on: 09 Jan , 2010, 16:04 »
Yes, good question Bill...premade or did you slice out? and if so, how with a clean edge and no curl (or counteract curl?)
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Re: Flak boats conning towers...
« Reply #23 on: 10 Jan , 2010, 10:32 »
Thanks guys!

And those strips.. Yes they are sliced with my own hands with a scalpel (surgeon knife) and with a roller blade. I
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Re: Flak boats conning towers...
« Reply #24 on: 10 Jan , 2010, 23:53 »
Thanks, I wondered what the magic was, I alwasy get curl and have never ban a fan of the poly liq, it either evaporates before you can contact, or blobs! But then I can't do stretched melted sprue either, and yet ahve seen some AMAZING parts made that way...
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Re: Flak boats conning towers...
« Reply #25 on: 16 Jun , 2010, 03:01 »
Hi, while searching for Infos about U 256 - I
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Re: Flak boats conning towers...
« Reply #26 on: 05 Aug , 2010, 17:18 »
Sorry i have no more pics... I had a rough winter - spring so the project was delayed until better time!  :)  But it
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Re: Flak boats conning towers...
« Reply #27 on: 04 Jun , 2011, 10:19 »
Last week i had the planking almost ready when i totally ruined it... Too much liquid poly and the result was a melt down! The lower platform literally melted down! I guess i didn
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Re: Flak boats conning towers...
« Reply #28 on: 08 Jun , 2011, 04:19 »
THAT is what I was talking about. But often I build a prototype and then the real one, so do not be discouraged, good practice!
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Re: Flak boats conning towers...
« Reply #29 on: 09 Jun , 2011, 10:07 »
I guess i have a prototype now...   :P    Somehow i have to spare the original CT parts and remake the decks... BTW the evergreen sheet looks great... Small sanding perhaps and it looks like real wood planking.
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