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PostPosted: Wed Dec 14, 2016 5:57 am 
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Swedish submarines
I had earlier built the HMS Gotland in 1/350 from OKB Grigorov and started a search for the other Swedish submarine that have been made as a model.

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it is HMS Västergötland from Sea Wolf. It took me a couple of years but finally I got one.

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It's not a very large kit in 1/350 scale.
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The finished kit.

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Two of the submarines in this class got modified with Stirling engines and I wanted to build one. I was lucky to find a second kit and could start on one.

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This conversion fought me. After all work with putty and sanding was done I managed to break it so I had to glue it together again and start all over.

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To finish it I had to make a similar propeller as on the HMS Gotland. (I made it from plastic card and the tip of an aircraft missile)

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Here they are together. Gotland, Södermanland an Västergötland. They are named after provinces in Sweden.

(The Gotland build: viewtopic.php?f=60&t=152194)

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PostPosted: Thu Dec 15, 2016 1:00 pm 
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Nice work! Haven't seen too many (any?) Swedish submarine models.


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Something quite different. Nice!


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nice work and well presented, good to see some unusual subjects being built

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PostPosted: Fri Dec 30, 2016 4:20 am 
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Nice models! Especially I like the conversion.

Do you know the museum of the Swedish navy in Karlskrona? There HMS Neptun (Näcken class) and models of all Swedish submarine classes are shown:
http://www.modellmarine.de/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=4605:u-boot-halle-des-marinemuseums-karlskrona&catid=178
(click on "Link zur Bildergalerie" to see the photos)

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Great builds Orso! Very nice to some other nationality than the more usual subjects! :thumbs_up_1:

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