Well I have made a bit of progress. I spent yesterday cleaning up flash and seams on several small parts. Not the most exciting thing in the world as all of you know, so I'll spare you the boring details about that.
I made a wooden base and have started planning the layout of the diorama. On the attached pictures you can see that I plan to offset the framing somewhat. This will serve two purposes. First it will give a (hopefully) neat asymetric look to the diorama. Second it allows me to put the brass name plate where everyone can see it!
I put some of the pier sections behind the model to test the height. Though the model will be elevated a few mm's when it is set into the motolfil the pier is still too high. I'll have to cut it down a couple of cm's.
I'm still deciding whether to put a basewood strip on the rear of the base adjunct to the pier, which will be attached to the back of the base. I'm leaning towards not putting a strip in as the uboat will then be nearer the pier as it would in real life.
As always, comments, suggestions and critisims are welcome.
Ernest
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greif8, shot with
DSC-H7 at 2009-02-25
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greif8, shot with
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greif8, shot with
DSC-H7 at 2009-02-25