Revell 1/72 Gato Class Submarine "USS Growler"

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Michael Power
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Philipp Gross wrote: 18 Jul 2018, 13:11 Most impressive! :D

How will you display this once it's done? I'd mount it on a wall plate like a stuffed fish :lol:

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That's something I hadn't given much thought to when I bought it Philipp.
Maybe a second mortgage to build it's own room? I'll worry about it later.
At the moment I'm still doing something to it that I'm starting to wish I hadn't started. :roll: I'll post some shots when I recover from this task. :lol:

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Its about time you blog something Micheal. But did it have to be something other than armor. I'm so tempted to build something different as well. I do have a ship and plane that I really need to try. :roll:

Anyways, I am following with interest. Looks great from here.

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Well Shawn, I started it because I have 5 stalled AFV's, a plane and a armoured bulldozer that I have lost all interest in due to how fragile the parts are to get off the Miniart spue's. :oops:
I'm not going to stop this one, but, it will take a while, due to a decision I made to try and get a bit more detail into it without aftermarket stuff. ;)
I hope you enjoy what I have done so far and I will post some more soon.

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I have finally got the forward deck drilled. What a stupid decision I have made. This is so time consuming, boring and not to mention hard on the wrist. As you can see from the photo below, I made the decision to give the deck some added detail by drilling out all the flood holes with a 0.5mm drill, which were just indentations. Oh my aching wrist. :roll:
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Forward Deck 1
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Forward Deck 2
Forward Deck 2
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That is what I have been doing since the last update. The concern for me is that the aft deck is 2 1/2 times longer. :shock:

That's it for now.
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:shock:

...respect for that! :o

...the of course there's the "fun" part - you can hardly go back behind what you've done already and now you need to do this on the whole boat.... :o :shock: ;)


Best regards and good drilling

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That is certainly dedication to the hobby :D

It does look very good though and is definitely much better than the original.

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Hi Michael,

Now there is a hole (see what i did there) lot of work, but blimey, that is most impressive! And what a difference that makes to the final look and finish Image Hell of a lot easier to paint too, when the time comes!


I bet it was a boring (see what i did there again)job! Image
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Impressive :o

I'm sure this whole affair will be worth the effort in the end :lol:

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Hahahaaaaa, i started counting the holes :oops:

I gave up counting after a few hundred, so it must have been a mission drillung them! :shock:

Keep going with the rest though, it really does look the bomb! :ugeek:
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Thanks Raoul, appreciated. :D

Michael

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