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Re: Opening flood holes on Revells new 1/72 U-Boat???????
Posted by: Michael ()
Date: May 15, 2006 01:05PM

I didn't open the flood holes on my first 1/72 Revell VIIC... maybe on the next. Anyway, what I did was to spray paint the flood holes black. The light grey colour of the upper hull and the darker grey for the lower hull were then applied in very sharp angles so as to avoid that these colours enter the flood holes. Take for instance the upper hull, here I sprayed the light gray colour from an angle that was about 160 degrees from above (or 20 degrees from straight down, if you like). From where I sit now while writing this message (about 1 1/2 metre from the sub) it looks realistic and you have to move very close to see that these flood holes aren't actually opened.

Michael

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Opening flood holes on Revells new 1/72 U-Boat??????? Sean 05/11/2006 10:42PM
Re: Opening flood holes on Revells new 1/72 U-Boat??????? Richard 05/13/2006 12:44AM
Re: Opening flood holes on Revells new 1/72 U-Boat??????? Michael 05/15/2006 01:05PM
Re: Opening flood holes on Revells new 1/72 U-Boat??????? Stan Goddard 05/05/2007 01:21AM
Re: Opening flood holes on Revells new 1/72 U-Boat??????? Glenn Cauley 05/14/2007 03:27PM
Re: Opening flood holes on Revells new 1/72 U-Boat??????? Dana 07/04/2007 04:16AM
Re: Opening flood holes on Revells new 1/72 U-Boat??????? Dana 09/27/2007 11:00AM


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