This post pretend to be a step by step in the process to materialize my dream. Mi home office-model shop-Uboot diorama inside a room decorated like the inside of a U Boot.
Some simmer coleagues already know about my project that dates back to 2003 about making a room look like a UBoot. The idea was born due to my passion for U-boots and models. Owning a model of 170 cm long, I thought I could do a diorama like the one at "andrea miniaturas" and reflecting on the issue, I concluded I was going to wrap the diorama with an unique envirnoment.
First of all, I have to ask to a manufacturer in Peru to ship to Europe some switches and two more lights to lighten the room with blue light when "running silent"
The idea is to start out of this room
And end up in a Uboot, room where I can have my home ofice (I only need my computer, a printer and a file cabinet), the tables to make and paint my models and my u-boot diorama on scale 1:35 over which I will put a berth with its blankets on blue and white squares and the unavoidable light for a kommandant's cabin.
Some building plans:
Sight is Floor plan
Front elevation of the door
Front elevation radiator wall, on the side of the window where will go the table to paint the models.
Front elevation window
Front elevation on the wall where I'll have a diorama and a berth (next to door) on the side of the window that goes from the table for model assembly
Front elevation of door on the outside of the room.
door's detail
This door will be made by a normal door, that will be opened on a few ocassions (to get in or out bulky stuff) and a smaller hatch U-boot like 150x50k, so the hatch will be a door inside the door.
Real scale plan of the shapes to cut the sub's ribs.
By the way, both the radius of the bow and the measure of the ribs as well as the distance between them is exactly the same as on a U-boat type VII C
Now the looks like this:
If you look at the roof, there are some terrible stains due to a water leakage from the roof. This is the reason of not having been able to start this project before, In september I'll have the roof fixed and it's going to cost me a small fortune.
Because of all this, I've profited to install air aconditioned on my daughter's room (right) and the dining room (left) if you see the tubes that protude from the wall, you'll realize that all the drains converge towards the interior of the U-boot room. This is because the compressor for the AC is outside on a balcony that connect to the hole you see on the window's wall on the right hand side, and all the conductions will pass trough there to a split that will be inside the U-boot room.
The condensation water will be pumped up to where you see the flex pipe next to the ceiling and goes to the drain of the toilette on the upper floor, not before going trough a 20 liter diposit ( aprox 5 gallons) to get it accumulated. As you know the condensation water is destilled, so having a deposit allow me to get some that may be used for ironing and save some cents. Is may be a nonsense, but the diposit along with pipes and the lot will give more ambiance to the room.
Let's see if I can get started once and for all!
I publish those shots with the hope of being able to put them on a "step by "step" of the realization of this dream.
12-26-07, 01:32 PM
Vilthomsen's U-boat room (English)
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