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| S-38b Cut and Shut Conversion |
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| S-100 and S-38b |
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| 40mm Bofors (10mm Pendraken) |
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| That will put the wind up the wavy navy! |
I decided to postpone my What a Tanker! plans for the moment, so that I can concentrate instead on the Cruel Seas project that I was supposed to be doing anyway! I have seven plastic S-100 E Boats to assemble and paint as the 5th S-Boot Flotilla c1944, so have started to separate them from the sprues and clean them up ready for painting.
Two of these should really be S-38b class boats, so I've also experimented with a cut and shut conversion, using the bow section of a damaged S-100 model, mated to the stern section of the S-38 class model from the same sprue. This worked well but I will now need to add a gun platform for a 40mm Bofors, for which I have a 10mm Pendraken model.
This is overscale but I will be cutting it down to size so that it looks right, even if it isn't exactly the right size. I'll aim to get the whole lot painted and glued together by the end of the month, together with a Vorpostenboot model from the Kriegsmarine starter set. I'm really looking forward to doing something naval for a change, so will get cracking!
Nice work! It is hard to even tell where you made the cut. I've been looking at some GHQ miniatures AA guns to change up the included weapons fit. I also saw that Warlord Games has released weapons packs, so that might be another option.
ReplyDeleteVery neat work. As the late Ernie Wise would say, "You can't see the join!"
ReplyDeleteA bit of sanding and some filling seemed to work quite well. I think I may make a second one if this one goes according to plan?
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