Friday, June 27, 2014

UZO (Unterseeboot Ziel Optik)

Scale 1:40 designed for Robbe kit.


Messing/Brass 0,15 mm




Assembling 


Please note: all measurements are metrics (millimeter)
All chemicals and materials are German brands.
All prices are in EURO.
German names of U-Boat parts often used for the technical and historical reasons.


Material used for fret is "semi hard/ halbhart, F 37" brass 0,15 mm thick. Some parts of the fret need to be bend
ed. Working with "soft" brass is much, much easy. To make brass "soft" we need just to warm up "hard" brass fret or some particular part of it.

Easiest way:




After the fret/parts been warmed, the surface has oxidized layer. For further assembling process, removing this layer is quiet vital to make brass adhesive for epoxy clue or soldering.

Access to industrial chemicals may be a bit problematic, but some consumer products available in grossery stores. And they do the job.

I buy almost everything I need for working with brass photo etched parts in the nearest Tengelmann network shop.  


The product for cleaning brass (and other materials like copper, silver, etc...) sold by brand Delu.





It looks so after 2 minutes of cleaning: