U-995 Mission accomplished

[Greif]

The rust is awesome!  What technique did you use to simulate it FoxbaT?

Ernest

[Rokket]

yes, DO tell!

[Pepper-mint]

Yes please, and the peeling technique ! 

I'll wash your dishes for 3 weeks...

[FoxbaT]

Haha thanks guys, i will try to give a short explanation.


First of all i paint the base with a matt finish, the color is not so important; i used grey.
In the next step i mix rust pigments with water until it it has the thickness of... yoghurt...
I completely cover the base with a thick layer of this mixture, because the base is painted with a matt finish the pigments will hold better on the `rough` surface.
After drying, the pigments are very vulnerable, and because of that i make a mixture of burnt sienna oil paint and white spirit (about 20/80%), and carefully apply this mixture on the pigment surface with a pointed brush.
Because of this, you will get nice dark and light rust color differences in the pigment, and after a day of drying the pigments are now much stronger for the next step.
Then i take the final color (again grey enamel in my case) and completely cover the area with a fine brush, i don`t brush the paint on but i `tap` it on to avoid damaging the pigments.
After 10 minutes when the paint is just dry i begin to peel the paint with a scalpel.
Because the enamel paint doesn`t stick very well on the pigments, this is very easy to do and because the grey enamel paint is still fresh it will start to peel and come up.
If you wait to long with this the paint is to hard and it doesn`t peel, so timing is important.
In fact this is the base method i discovered, it is not easy but after some practise the results can be very good.



p.s Pepper Mint, when will you come to my house to wash my dishes?, my kitchen is overloaded......


Karel

[Greif]

Very slick technique for rust FoxbaT.  May I ask where you learned it from?  Also, is the base coat of paint acrylic or enamel? 

Thanks for the information!

Ernest

[FoxbaT]

Thanks Ernest, i learned this technique from myself, i like to try different things to accomplish my goals, some things work and others don`t.
I discovered this technique by coincidence, and now i am trying to perfect it.

The base coat is also Enamel, i never use acrylics.



Karel

[Pepper-mint]

Powerful sense of observation FoxbaT !
Your technique sounds logic to me. Paint a rusted sheet of metal and you'll get the same result. The difference : you get the result after peeling the hardened composite paint over the fragile rust pigments ; i use this technique for some furniture or wall decoration. I never thought to use this tech. in modeling.

Great !

I ow you 3 weeks dishwashing, in France we call those weeks "les semaines des 4 jeudi"... 

Thanks for the explanations.

Cheers,
Pepper. 

[FoxbaT]

I started work on the periscope and conning tower




The periscope sanded and ready for paint





The basic parts for the conning tower including the Nautilus wooden deck part





Dryfit...





And a quick look how it fits on the deck






Karel

[LE BOSCO]

Hi Karel
Work very clean and realized with talent .
Well done !
Nicolas

[NZSnowman]

Hi Karel

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[FoxbaT]

Thanks Simon for your info.
Indeed its too late now to change this, off course i would like to have the boat as accurate as possible but this is something i can live with 


Karel

[FoxbaT]

The flooding holes in the kit are not correct, so i filled the holes with Zap superglue, and sanded them smooth.



The accurate distance between the holes should be 7 mm.




After drilling 1mm holes i used a needle file to make the holes oval-shaped.
I also thinned the plastic behind the holes to scale thickness.









Karel

[NZSnowman]

Karel, that look good! On a side note, over the weekend I was looking at pictures of U-995 and I notice there were a lot of photographs of U-995 without a Schorchel, it may mean that she did not get one till very late in the war

[Pat]

Simon, here you go.

http://hnsa.org/conf2004/papers/berryman.htm

"(Oblt zur see Hans Georg) Hess was loosed in extreme northern waters with particular emphasis on the Murmansk Run. Between reporting aboard on October 8, 1944 and February 14, 1945 when he took U-995 to the yards at Trondheim, Norway, to be retrofitted with a snorkel, he fired 35 torpedoes."

[Pat]

Some research indicates that U-995 never went on a combat patrol with the schnorkel.

http://www.deutscher-marinebund.de/u995_geschichte_english.htm

"At the time of the German capitulation on May, 8th, 1945, U995 was moored at Trondheim, Norway, to be equipped with a snorkel."