Very Big Sub

Holger Kranich
WTF! Big but very beautiful! The ruststreaks are very realistic and the chipping, too! Love it!

Wilfried Bogaerts
Whoa! Like that!

Is this a Type XXIII ? Scale 1:35 ?

Beautiful job Vitor 🙂

Holger Kranich
Not sure about the scale, Willy. But it looks just BIG!;)

Dave Flitton
Awesome work. Are you going to build a case for it so that it does not gather dust?

Vitor Costa
Hello Friends

This is an R/C submarine in 1/35 like Wilfried says. I only did the paint job, the sub is made in glass fibre? i will try to put here a video of it attacking some vessels 🙂

Holger Kranich
That video would be nice to see!

Vitor Costa
Hi Holger

Here it is:
Youtube Video

Holger Kranich
Great video! I wanna play too!!!;)

Aghis Barberopoulos
THis is an RC ? This is too good to put it in water man !!!
Unbelievable, Vitor, this is one great (literally) model to be proud of.
But why is it photographed next to the washing machine ??? 🙂

Pedro Almeida
What a "monster"! 😉

Steve Wilson
Great video. The Jaws theme would of been good music to go with it🙂

Wilfried Bogaerts
Waaaaw impressive, very entertaining movie, thx for sharing Vitor !

Now where is my "Das Boot" DVD so I can watch it again for the XXXXXXth time !!

Hey Vitor, what color(s) did you use for the rust streaking and are they oils, pigments, enamels?

Now back again to your movie, much much better than the regular B*llSh*t that's broadcasted on television and ... no commercials ! 😉

Guus
That paintwork really finishes it off, looks like you took the "we´re going to need a bigger boat" from Jaws literally !

Philip De Keyser
Lovely monster Vitor 😉

Bill Gilman
Too cool! Far out, man! (Sorry, I grew up in the 60s).

Vitor Costa
@ Holger, i would like it too, but i never did it 🙁 the captain dont allow it 🙂

@ Aghis, as far as i know almost 8 years latter the paint is still ok (i apply about 10 layers of varnish 🙂) It was photographed near the washing machine because it was the spot with more area to move it... we are talking about something with 160 cm!!! 🙂

@ Pedro, yes you can bet a huge model to have at home 🙂

@ Steve you are right, now every time i go to the beach (almost all weekends) and im in the water i look around to see if there is any... sub on water 🙂

@ Wilfried well with so many people watching it i think the owner is going to put some commercials on it 🙂 About the paint.. they are oils, (Van Gogh) Burn Umber, Ivory Black and white, the other "effects" were made with the airbrush, i used Tamiya Air Spray Paint AS26 the other one... i dont remember.

@ Guus 🙂 bigger than this and it dont fit in my hobby room, by the way i painted it on the street!! in front of a friend garage because the smell of the paints is too aggressive 🙂 The rest of the work have been done in my job installations on weekends!

@ Philips 😉

@ Bill No problems i was born in the summer of 69 🙂 (really!!)

@ Guido you are right i confess that when i did it i dont know watt to expect once the model was on water, but the paint is still there after so many hours of navigation 🙂

Thank you all for your nice words

Regards from Portugal

Vitor Costa

Bill Gilman
Born in the summer of 69 - you are a Woodstock baby? 🙂 🙂 🙂

Steve Wilson
And Vitor what a beach you have, Portugal has a lovely sunny coastline🙂🙂🙂
Bill mate, woodstock ain't in Portugal... (joke)

Bill Gilman
Well, maybe Vitor's folks were on a "trip." 🙂 🙂 🙂

Vitor Costa
Well at that time Portugal was in war in the ex-colonys (my father was a Morse instructor, he didn't went to Africa because he gave Morse classes to the officers that went to war) but he didn't leave Portugal so... i dont think so 🙂