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Gwenydd · 10-18-22, 05:36 PM

The kit is made of some type of ABS plastic so it is not nearly as brittle as styrene. I think it will make for a very tough RC model.

I decided to start with the conning tower build. I have it mostly together now with the exception of filling a few small gaps and adding some details that were not included in the kit. You can see I already added the small (silver for now) hand railings at the front sides of the wintergarten. All the brass parts you see in the photos are photoetched brass parts which are included in the kit.

Here you can see a test fit build of the stern control surfaces and related support structures.

You can see that there is very little room in the stern for the rudder control horns. It takes some fiddling and reshaping of parts to get moving parts to not interfere with each other.

Here's a bit of a size reference photo with the hull on top of my Virtual Pinball cabinet and with my U-boat kaleun's hat.

10-18-22, 05:36 PM	#2
Gwenydd verrückt kaleun Join Date: Nov 2014 Location: Northern Washington Posts: 92 Downloads: 143 Uploads: 2	Getting started on the build The kit is made of some type of ABS plastic so it is not nearly as brittle as styrene. I think it will make for a very tough RC model. I decided to start with the conning tower build. I have it mostly together now with the exception of filling a few small gaps and adding some details that were not included in the kit. You can see I already added the small (silver for now) hand railings at the front sides of the wintergarten. All the brass parts you see in the photos are photoetched brass parts which are included in the kit. Here you can see a test fit build of the stern control surfaces and related support structures. You can see that there is very little room in the stern for the rudder control horns. It takes some fiddling and reshaping of parts to get moving parts to not interfere with each other. Here's a bit of a size reference photo with the hull on top of my Virtual Pinball cabinet and with my U-boat kaleun's hat. __________________ Gwen Last edited by Gwenydd; 10-18-22 at 05:49 PM.