very fine-- and razor-sharp! :thumbs_up_1: :thumbs_up_1: :thumbs_up_1:
Thank you for posting
Jim B :wave_1:
Posted: Sun May 20, 2018 4:39 pm
MPERRY
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Re: 1/36 Scale X-Craft
Two final images.
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X-Craft 030.jpg [ 93.89 KiB | Viewed 1970 times ]
X-Craft 031.jpg [ 113.8 KiB | Viewed 1970 times ]
Two final images.
Posted: Sun Apr 08, 2018 1:16 pm
MPERRY
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Re: 1/36 Scale X-Craft
Completing the build and showing various views of the finished model.
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X-Craft 017.jpg [ 129.67 KiB | Viewed 1970 times ]
X-Craft 020.jpg [ 133.6 KiB | Viewed 1970 times ]
X-Craft 021.jpg [ 135.93 KiB | Viewed 1970 times ]
X-Craft 022.jpg [ 137.09 KiB | Viewed 1970 times ]
X-Craft 024.jpg [ 117.65 KiB | Viewed 1970 times ]
X-Craft 025.jpg [ 104.53 KiB | Viewed 1970 times ]
X-Craft 026.jpg [ 106.85 KiB | Viewed 1970 times ]
X-Craft 027.jpg [ 101.13 KiB | Viewed 1970 times ]
X-Craft 028.jpg [ 101.32 KiB | Viewed 1970 times ]
X-Craft 029.jpg [ 89.97 KiB | Viewed 1970 times ]
Completing the build and showing various views of the finished model.
Posted: Sun Apr 08, 2018 1:15 pm
MPERRY
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1/36 Scale X-Craft
This project covers a model I made over 3 months during 2007. It represents a British X-Craft, X-5 Series. These were built in 1942 and used to damage the German battleship Tirpitz in 1943. They had an overall length of 51 feet 7 inches (15.7 meters) and a hull diameter of 5 feet 9 inches (1.75 meters). I chose to model these craft without the external saddle charges, that were attached on each side and dropped under the anchored target. My primary reference was the book Midget Submarines, by Paul J. Kemp. The internet provided images to help me visualize some of the details, and just how tiny they were. The primary material I used was 1/16 inch bassword, with laminated solid blocks at the stem and stern cone. The various linkages and net guards were wire. The two hatches and the combination air induction and voice tube were styrene. The third image shows a piece of hull plating drying after being bent over a frame. This allowed the cylindrical amidships hull to be plated with a single sheet on each side. I used a Dremel etching bit to drill the many free-flood holes in the upper and lower casings. The bit ended up being the raised search periscope shown in some of the pictures. It was the perfect shape, diameter and length.
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X-Craft 003.jpg [ 140.83 KiB | Viewed 1972 times ]
X-Craft 004.jpg [ 119.57 KiB | Viewed 1972 times ]
X-Craft 005.jpg [ 168.44 KiB | Viewed 1972 times ]
X-Craft 006.jpg [ 132.77 KiB | Viewed 1972 times ]
X-Craft 008.jpg [ 133.44 KiB | Viewed 1972 times ]
X-Craft 010.jpg [ 95.5 KiB | Viewed 1972 times ]
X-Craft 011.jpg [ 111.55 KiB | Viewed 1972 times ]
X-Craft 014.jpg [ 93.21 KiB | Viewed 1972 times ]
X-Craft 015.jpg [ 89.66 KiB | Viewed 1972 times ]
X-Craft 016.jpg [ 94.94 KiB | Viewed 1972 times ]
[color=#000000]This project covers a model I made over 3 months during 2007. It represents a British X-Craft, X-5 Series. These were built in 1942 and used to damage the German battleship Tirpitz in 1943. They had an overall length of 51 feet 7 inches (15.7 meters) and a hull diameter of 5 feet 9 inches (1.75 meters). I chose to model these craft without the external saddle charges, that were attached on each side and dropped under the anchored target. My primary reference was the book Midget Submarines, by Paul J. Kemp. The internet provided images to help me visualize some of the details, and just how tiny they were. The primary material I used was 1/16 inch bassword, with laminated solid blocks at the stem and stern cone. The various linkages and net guards were wire. The two hatches and the combination air induction and voice tube were styrene. The third image shows a piece of hull plating drying after being bent over a frame. This allowed the cylindrical amidships hull to be plated with a single sheet on each side. I used a Dremel etching bit to drill the many free-flood holes in the upper and lower casings. The bit ended up being the raised search periscope shown in some of the pictures. It was the perfect shape, diameter and length.[/color]