Yes,

I think you have it! I will try that tonight as I will be working on the Tower again !

I am waiting on some Photo Etch to finish the basic hull. I am also working on the pressure hull.... thats another story.

Regards,

 Well, more progress to report:

I have pretty much finished the basic Tower now. I made the air tunneling out of the epoxy putty. I had to do some major sanding on the tunneling to get it right, but I beleive it looks good now. I am going to shoot some flat white on the tower to see any flaws that may need correcting. That is the easyest way I have found to correct aything before I shoot the final coats.

Regards,

 Hello!

Have vents now done on U-47 Project. 

   Hi Dan

         Did you open up the vents on your boat? If so how did you handle making the inner hull? I'm working on mine, slowly but surely, but didn't go the drill em out route. Will just use a wash to pop them out. One time on the smaller Revell kit "U99" I took the time to drill them all out, what a time trying to keep them all the same size, anyway I got it all together then realized that I could see right through it. Kind of blew the illusion.

Kaleun wrote: Like Panther says, the drilling is a nightmare - my technique was to manually drill two holes to the right height so that you got something looking like a filled figure of eight - and then using a matchstick tightly wrapped in glasspaper to get rid of the excess plastic and smooth off the edges. This way a level of accuracy could be achieved - but boy did it take a while!

       Pretty much the same way I did it, two holes on each end then a small file to finish the vent. I did it in two different sittings, after the port side was done I'ld had had enough and built something else, came back to it a few months later and finished it.

        If you do just want to paint the vents use a wash of blackish grey, looks better then just straight black. Straight black is just to intense against the lighter grey of the top half of the hull.

 Yes,  basically I did the same thing.  I used my handy dremel tool to thin the plastic on the inside of both hull halves. Be ready to eat plastic! I then use a #11 exato blade to finish cutting out the vents. I then use a small finger-nail file to finish the vent and thin the bottoms to give a more scaled effect.  I  then build a pressure hull from thin plastic for the inside. I cut out the bottom vents and use a PE kit  to replace the vents on the bow and stern bottom.  This is all done before I secure the two halves together.  I paint the pressure hull a flat black.  I paint the entire outside before I weather anything.

Regards,

      I've got to get me one of them.