After the little UB1 project it's time for something bigger again. As a big fan of the German Imperial Navy submarines I instantly fell in love with the S.M. U9 kit by Das Werk in 1/72 scale and bought it right away when it hit the stores. RC Subs provides an excellent PE enhancement kit that also went into the shopping card. And now I feel like getting this boat done.
First part of the build is joining the halves of the hull. The hull is detailed quite beautifully and has an excellent fit. But I knew from other build blogs and also from the manual of the RC Subs PE kit, that the bow is much too wide., about 3-4 mm. In reals that would have meant a bow with 25 - 30 cm width (10-12 Inches). Now way. So the first thing I did was to thin down the bow line and adjust the hull line back to the muzzle door bulkhead. In the end I came up with a bow of about 0,3 mm width, about 20 mm in real. That's O.K.. After that everything was pretty much straight forward: One has to install three bulkheads and a good amount of cross bracings. I glued everything to one hull and joined that hulls provisionally to get a proper alignment of bulkheads and bracings. After letting everything set over night, I glued the two halves together. Looks good so far...
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First part of the build is joining the halves of the hull. The hull is detailed quite beautifully and has an excellent fit. But I knew from other build blogs and also from the manual of the RC Subs PE kit, that the bow is much too wide., about 3-4 mm. In reals that would have meant a bow with 25 - 30 cm width (10-12 Inches). Now way. So the first thing I did was to thin down the bow line and adjust the hull line back to the muzzle door bulkhead. In the end I came up with a bow of about 0,3 mm width, about 20 mm in real. That's O.K.. After that everything was pretty much straight forward: One has to install three bulkheads and a good amount of cross bracings. I glued everything to one hull and joined that hulls provisionally to get a proper alignment of bulkheads and bracings. After letting everything set over night, I glued the two halves together. Looks good so far...
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