U-Boot Typ VII-C

Indeed that's some superb work old chap

How did I miss this! This is excellent. Extremely well done Wouter.

That looks great and nice work with the water!

This is looking really good Wouts .

Paul and Marco, thanks a lot chaps!

So, the rigging has been done.
I used Uschi van der Rosten's Rig That Thing Superfine Size wire which is...ridicilously thin . With the naked eye it is barely visible but that's how it's need to be at this scale I think. All too often you can see ship models with overly thick wiring.
Having that said, that also makes it very difficult to apply: it's not easy to keep attached between your tweezers, and even with my Tamiya goggles it was hard to see the wire during application.
But shaky hands, some perseverence, CA glue and a lot of swearing later it has been done .
I must say I'm well impressed with the Uschi wire...it glues very easily and it can be stretched very hard...amazing stuff.
The rigging isn't 100% to my satisfaction, but it isn't bad either.
The insulation balls on the wire were a different thing. Initially I wanted to brush small blobs of paint on the wire but that didn't work out, it's like the wire is the +side of a magnet and the paint a + too...doesn't adhere well. So, next try: small blobs of Micro Kristal Clear. That did the trick. When dry it becomes translucent, so I painted it using Humbroll 32 matt dark grey.
The hull received another application of Vallejo Still Water to make it wetter (another application might be needed) and this is how she looks so far. Finish line is coming close!


And to make a comparison with an every day object 


Cheers

Wouts that is amazing my friend .
What else needs doing?

Inspiring stuff Wouter

Oh my God! AMAZING!