U-552 Trumpeter 1/48 static

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  • bianco64squalo
    Ensign
    • Apr 2017
    • 94

    #31
    Work in progress......

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    • bianco64squalo
      Ensign
      • Apr 2017
      • 94

      #32
      Some details of diesel engine room elements: work in progress, not yet finished....
      Cheers....

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      • bianco64squalo
        Ensign
        • Apr 2017
        • 94

        #33
        I'd like to finish the superdetailing of the hull before start a serious work on the interiors.....
        Stay tuned....

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        • bianco64squalo
          Ensign
          • Apr 2017
          • 94

          #34
          Adding rivets to forward hydroplanes guard....
          Cheers

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          • bianco64squalo
            Ensign
            • Apr 2017
            • 94

            #35
            Started the work on aft transparent part of the hull....

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            • bianco64squalo
              Ensign
              • Apr 2017
              • 94

              #36
              Made by scratch the upper fairing outside the torpedo muzzle door, incredibly absent in the model ( I utilized a spare part from the same Trumpeter kit ).
              About the drainage holes next to the same fairing, I decided to cut out the plastic and remake them from plasticard....
              Cheers

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              • bianco64squalo
                Ensign
                • Apr 2017
                • 94

                #37
                Working on stern section of hull....
                Cheers

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                • trout
                  Admiral
                  • Jul 2011
                  • 3545

                  #38
                  Really like the details in the shaft support! Excellent work.
                  If you can cut, drill, saw, hit things and swear a lot, you're well on the way to building a working model sub.

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                  • bianco64squalo
                    Ensign
                    • Apr 2017
                    • 94

                    #39
                    Works on propellers, in Trumpeter's model inexplicably enriched with strange engravings....
                    Also created the aft pressure hull cap, from 4 disks of thick styrene...
                    Cheers....

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                    • bianco64squalo
                      Ensign
                      • Apr 2017
                      • 94

                      #40
                      Waiting for some help, I continue the work of superdetailing of various items, without a building order.
                      The piston of the aft torpedo tube ( in the posted photo the cap provided by the kit and my one );the doubling of support electric motors ribs with 1 mm. plasticard.
                      In a short time I'll made by scratch the auxiliary engine for compressed air, totally wrong in kit ( see posted photos: the kit's one and the real thing ) and the aft bulkead trim tank ( see posted photos: the kit's one and the real thing )...
                      I hope in some drawings of aft stern structure outside the pressure hull, temporarily suspended....
                      Cheers

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                      • bianco64squalo
                        Ensign
                        • Apr 2017
                        • 94

                        #41
                        Work in progress....
                        Cheers

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                        • bianco64squalo
                          Ensign
                          • Apr 2017
                          • 94

                          #42
                          The work on air compressed electric motor continues....not yet completed, but it starts to take shape...

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                          • bianco64squalo
                            Ensign
                            • Apr 2017
                            • 94

                            #43
                            Not yet finished....

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                            • trout
                              Admiral
                              • Jul 2011
                              • 3545

                              #44
                              Holy smokes Batman! That looks amazing!
                              If you can cut, drill, saw, hit things and swear a lot, you're well on the way to building a working model sub.

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                              • bianco64squalo
                                Ensign
                                • Apr 2017
                                • 94

                                #45
                                Hi everybody,
                                I'm still working on my U552, but the work is slow, because of the Trumpeter's model inaccuracy....
                                I had to build by scratch, or modify, some bulwarks and part of pressure hull in aft section, not present in model....
                                Also modified the floor of stern torpedo tube, flat in the model but curved in reality...
                                Cheers

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