Luft46's Blog

Still on the Delphin which up till now has been good. Unfortunately the fins for both the submarine and its torpedo are poor fitting and need a bit of fettling which has slowed progress. This has meant another round of PSR is underway. I’m still working on the torpedo fins.

It’s been bloody cold in my garage workbench so not much modelling this weekend.

This is not a bad kit but does need a bit of filling. I used my chosen filler – Milliput along with some IPA , a needle and a scalpel to have a go at this. I’ll be using some silver paint to look for issues with my efforts so far. This filling was very fiddly and seemed to take forever. There’s a surprisingly large amount of grooves to fill. I’m yet to do the one in the bottom of the mouth

Bad puns aside I’ve recently started in on the MicroMir German WW2 experimental sub.

I’ve got to be honest and say that given the torpedo is about twice the length of the sub I don’t believe this was really a viable option. Anyway as I model Luft46 stuff I can’t really say that this KM46 sub is too bad.

The kit is typical short run in that the fit is a little crude with no locating pins but with extra interior detail including brass its a surprisingly fun kit to build.

The last three shots are of the interior before I sealed it all up. The etched brass strips for around the blue oxygen cylinders were replaced with painted Tamiya tape as the brass just wouldn’t bend properly.

Current progress is that I’m on the second cycle of PSR and it may need a third for some minor bits including the torpedo. It’s still on the workbench being worked on.

This kit fell by the wayside as I was due to add two parts that I couldn’t find. From the instructions it was something like A11 and A12 but in actual fact it was D11 and D12.

I came back to the kit after a while and had a proper look and found the instructions were wrong.

So starting again I had a good look at all I had including the reference book I had. This caused me to decide to do this as a Moscow outdoor museum exhibit. It needed a couple of minor changes including removing the end of one of the guns.

In the course of my last efforts I had also lost a part which fortunately was relatively easy to duplicate from a part in my spares drawer.

I’ve added some DAS to the base but this needs some more work soon. Temporarily it’s slowed but this is mostly due to the cold weather as painting is not an option.