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good evening everyone thank you for comments and likes i wasnt happy with the room i had given Hans to work on the battery, so i removed some from the bottom of the lowest pint on the cells then adapted the tank to put the raft cradle in which was also altered to make it look a little more in scale it was another Friday afternoon on the design of this module as you can see the bulkhead behind the bunks extends way above the pressure hull i wasn't able to find where the battery hatch was, so artistic licence put it there, this wasn't just for daily maintenance but for cell changes and whole battery replacement
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yr welcome, an upgrade package has allowed you to the front nearer the popcorn machine i never realised that sort of thing was used in aircraft, lol its 0430 and i have learnt my new thing for the day already
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thank you it dont look right to me, i will remake the raft in a thinner material, and drop it down near the cell tops, not much else i can do with out dismantling the pack itself and taking some height out, the top of the keel is slanting upwards towards the back to facilitate the way the kit was intended, but if i level that off then i would not get the pack in within the pressure hull as it would come down to low i think the raft has to change
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good evening everyone thank you for comments and like i put the cells into a tank to keep them upright and stop them moving around in roughers the space at the front is a missing row, the kit dont provide enough if you put the correct amount in although i dont quite know where the hatch is, i need to get someone to inspect the battery, not much room in there, but a small semi naked armless electrician will do and i have made provision for two lights to aid him in his work he needs a raft to move up and down the cell lines, i have provided a rope for him to aid this work my photos yet again let me down
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good evening everyone thank you for comments and likes i made the decision to show more off the battery tank, rather than show other bits that are not in the kit like fuel/water tanks the cells were made up, painted in lifecolor matt black, drybrushed with Tamiya dark grey oxidisation by superglue being forced dry by using an accelerator 0.4mm wire for connectors a tank to be made up next to give it a proper home
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with the torpedo compartment nearly finished and the Engine room going to be a long term project i decided to start on the midships accommodation area under the main deck is the battery tank, and trumpeter made it to simple the kit call for all the cells to be placed on the port side and leaving nothing on the Port side, i will try and improve that, @yvesvidal showed a nice way of doing it, so i am basing my idea on that i propose to spread the cells across the hull using the kit floor as a template to get the cell at the correct height, but vision is restricted so i am looking at a way on how to improve the deck to look at the tank better NOT MY PHOTO
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HMS Granado 1742 Kit - CAF Model - 1:48 Scale
Kevin replied to cafmodel's topic in Wood ship model kits
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Engine room there is no space on a submarine, space is designed to have things put in it, so why o why is there nothing under the engines, it is/was full of hydraulic lines trim and ballast lines, fuel, exhaust, air, and on and on kit we have ....................................nothing so i am putting things in there, as to weather it can be seen it dont matter, and yes the pipes don't resemble anything, lol but no space
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to see a good one please see this here on MSW U-552 Type VIIc Submersible by yvesvidal - FINISHED - Trumpeter - 1/48 - Plastic - - Kit build logs for subjects built from 1901 - Present Day - Model Ship World™
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good morning everyone the torpedo lifting gear is better now having got rid of the kit bits, i left the chains long to help putting the deck head on lighting i need to put an inline dimmer and these new 3mm lights are getting quite warm i think the chain looks out of scale for now i will be leaving this compartment like this as i am still unsure of the diorama setting and possiblty rethink the lighting
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Good evening everyone thank you for comments and like i have done enough wiring for the hull i still have the bulkheads to do i removed the wire clips holding the wire runs in place, and replaced them with tape put a coat of primer over it all, including the bits i have done on the engine up to now
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Thankyou for that, and the photos,very nice indeed, its a real shame about the kit, anyone i am aware of in buildkng this have criticised just how wrong it is, however i dont have any decent accurate information to make mine any better than seeing what others have done
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good afternoon everyone what a brilliant idea off swopping the engines over, lol what have i done to myself, no regrets its just not turning out as expected, the space (well lack off) is being made worse by (a lack of space) anyway i plod on in my own way of making something good into a mess the engine still has another 80+ bits to be fitted, and each bit has to be altered, so its ongoing meanwhile another moment of madness to replace the molded wire on the bulkhead im using .4mm wire for this oh and by the way non of this will be seen either, i just want to try my skills out and avoid finishing the build by christmas this year i will put in at least another 10 cable runs
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lol you just never know when you might need to know how to swop a submarine diesel over
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good evening everyone the engine conversion will take me quite a while so here is some more progress, should you be interested the first of the outboard exhausts only requires the six pipes to be cut off, and turn the manifold upside down the rest of todays photos are trying to get some shape to the after end of the stbd engine, No its not perfect by a very long way, i need to see what it looks like after a bit of filler, more shaping a coat of primer
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good morning everyone thank you for comments likes and messages lol i now have realised the full amount of work involved in this idea i had everything now has to be rotated 180 degrees, and the easy bit is done, most of it will have to be scratched as i went along removing the ends of the block, i could have avoided taking the head off
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me again well i managed to turn the hull supports form the port side to the stbd removed some tabs and adjusted the bulkheads by cutting where the diesel support beams go, i don't suppose for a moment that the further I go into this that it will be easier, but for me thats a great start
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