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Working on the plumbing.....I'm currently designing the water piping. The arrangement is based on the John Lambert plans, which are quite detailed about...

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And when the pump is done, it find ts place almost invisible under the port ladder to the Otto motor....

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Creating these CAD models I can easily spend 1-2 days modeling a manual piston water pump from 1900....

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I get these questions from time to time, also with respect to the XXIII files. I haven't decided what to do with them yet. First of all, the CAD models...

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More detail work...and the port spare Whitehead torpedo...

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The pressure hull of the 1/72 scale model of the Type II submarine Vesikko is pretty much done. Here's a first look of the result with lights on. Currently...

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Fitted the remaining air tanks and started modeling the holding brackets. Also added the spanner rack on the port forward compensating tank.....slow work....

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I'm working on the general arrangement of the various tanks. The boat had 6 torpedo compensating tanks, 2 for each of the three torpedoes it could carry....

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Starts to look like a boat:



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The torpedo tube and the compensating tank are close to be finalized....some bolts and rivets are mssing.



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Started working on spicing up the original, quite simple snap-together kit. On the rear of the Starcruiser sits a tiny fighter craft, the Interceptor....