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29 12 May 2016, 14:44

Choppa Nutta
very cool 🙂

12 May 2016, 14:55

Bill Davis
That is a really neat concept for a diorama, well done.

12 May 2016, 15:05

Dave Flitton
Love it!!!!

12 May 2016, 15:37

Es-haq Khosravi
Very nice diorama!

12 May 2016, 16:07

Christian Ristits
This is really great, one masterpiece!

12 May 2016, 17:13

Clifford Keesler
Really neat.

12 May 2016, 18:13

Christian Bruer
Very nice and realistic scenery and very well done 👍

12 May 2016, 18:50

KlausH
Fantastic!!! 👍

12 May 2016, 20:01

Bernhard Schrock
Great idea and great realization!

12 May 2016, 20:03

Roland Sachsenhofer
Wow!! That´s truly inspiring and amazing! I am thrilled by your idea and the competed dio!

12 May 2016, 20:12

Steve Luckinbill
Thanks guys, I really appreciate you looking in. It makes my work worth it.

14 May 2016, 01:50

Martien Lourens
Amazing, awesome idea. and very nicely done .

14 May 2016, 07:09

Stefan Fraundorfer
An extremly dynamic scene. Great work - I love it.

14 May 2016, 07:12

Jay Dubya
Oh Steve this is really, really good - I think I can hear the brass band playing!

14 May 2016, 07:15

Augie
Now thats a nice an unusual.

14 May 2016, 14:16

Łukasz Gliński
That's a unique concept 🙂

14 May 2016, 16:57

Steve Luckinbill
Funny thing. After I received the kit for christmas, I started reading about it and how much aftermarket and PE it was going to need to bring it up to a passable Gato. I was looking at Gato pictures on the internet, as my usual research goes, and I ran across a picture of the sideways launching. As I investigated more I noticed that the launched ships were missing most if not all of the items which were in error. So the more I thought about it the more wanted to do it and at the same time avoid the extra expense of all that AM and PE. I picked the Puffer simply because it was launched in Nov 42 and would have a similar conning tower as the kit represented in 1941. It wasn't until I was well into creating the base that I noticed that I would have considerable work to do removing the deck, installing cross members and working on the pressure hull.
It was a fun project and allowed me to improve my water making technique.
Steve

14 May 2016, 21:01

Scott Hastings
This is a great job and well executed

14 May 2016, 21:34

Łukasz Gliński
Thanks for the detailed description Steve, it doesn't make your job any less impressive though😉
What interests me the most is - how did you make the flags?

15 May 2016, 09:57

Peter Segers
awesome diorama & setting. Love how you managed to express the "water splashing moment" at the U-boat's christening and the wooden support beams jumping up. Extremely well done!!!! well deserved congrats.

15 May 2016, 10:09

Steve Luckinbill
Thanks again guys.
Lukasz,The flags were made by downloading the picture of US flags and pennants and sizing them to the proper scale. I printed them out on an inkjet printer whose ink does not run with water (HP's ink doesn't run for instance). I cut them out and applied them with a mix of white glue and water. When they started to harden I used a pair of tweezers to twist and bend them.

19 May 2016, 04:25

Ulf Petersen
Wow! 😮 Spectacular and completely unusual, Steve! And top execution, great!👍

19 May 2016, 05:41

Łukasz Gliński
Thanks Steve, that's a great hint

19 May 2016, 08:20

John Ballman
As a Former Submariner, this is one of the finest dioramas of a Gato boat I have ever seen. Thanks for sharing this.
Respectfully,
John B.

4 February 2023, 17:31