U-Boat Type XXI U-2540 (WIP #6) - Painting#1

its been a long while..

The rest of the WIP can be viewed (U-Boat WIP -Here!!)

Now at the painting stage..
been busy with my Karl Morser that i didnt have time to update this...
now that the Karl is done i can get back to this sub...
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ok.. manage to paint several layers of paint on the subs....
i'm still undecided on which u-boat to depict but the frog markings on the side is very nice...
so painted the lower portion of the sub with H306...

trying to get some weathering done... so i sprayed the lower hull vertically.. thus a streaking line... a very fade line can be seen vertically on the hull...

oh before that.. i read somewhere on the net that we can start weathering very early in painting.. so i tested by using water-misting-spray... spray on the hull and then straight away spray paint on it.. it produced a random spot-effect on the hull... i'm not sure it it can be seen on my photo

and then after the water dries... i spray another coat of the H306 to cover the effect a lil bit.
seems to be ok...
will try to take a better photo with my photobooth later...
until then... the rest of the photos follows..

note the masking for the yellow lines (should have done this earlier)

kuman