Hi all, I just joined today, and might be being completely stupid but couldn't see particularly a newbie section or intro topic so thought I'd give a bit of info.
I've been into RC in pretty much all shapes & forms since being a kid (am mid 40s now), but never owned a sub until today (despite wanting one for years).
A friend of mine posted up a pic on FB of one that he's had gathering dust for a few years as he hasn't had time to renovate it, and then sold it to me for a mere tenner.
I didn't know what it was, but it is big, and was £10, so that's all I needed as I'm a sucker for a bargain (or money pit project in reality).
Anyway, after some googling, and some rudimentary maths, it's a type XXI uboat model and measures approx 64 inches long.
By my reckoning, based on wikipedia's stated length for those boats of just under 77m, this would make it a 1/48 scale model (I think....).
Clearly it's been built as a finished sub at some point, but somewhere along the line had loads of its guts cruelly torn out, bundles of wires chopped through, and is in a pretty horrible state now, with tons of missing/damaged parts.
Still, it's a sub, and it's mine.
I have a fairly decent workshop with some machine tools etc, so it'll be interesting to see what parts I can fabricate myself on the lathe etc, and what parts I'll have to bite the bullet and spend horrible amounts on, but either way it's going to take a lot of progress to get this back on the water (assuming it once was).
Pics to follow later this evening (i.e. when I can smuggle it into the garage without the mrs seeing it)!
Not sure who manufactured this anyway. I found one or two likely references online earlier but have forgotten already so an evening of research awaits.
What I need to begin with is cleaning it and identifying everything still in it, and then try to create a huge list of everything it needs. So before I can do that, I need to properly understand the workings of it and figure it out from there, hopefully with input from you guys on where (ideally in the UK) I can get parts etc.
At the moment it primarily seems to have 2 main central compartments - one which is clearly for radio gear & motors etc, then one with the remains of some plumbing, which I assume was ballast related.
Hopefully once I put up some pics later someone can give some pointers on how it would have been set up before someone trashed it.
Looking forward to finding out more anyway.![Smile](https://forum.subcommittee.com/core/images/smilies/smile.png)
Jim
I've been into RC in pretty much all shapes & forms since being a kid (am mid 40s now), but never owned a sub until today (despite wanting one for years).
A friend of mine posted up a pic on FB of one that he's had gathering dust for a few years as he hasn't had time to renovate it, and then sold it to me for a mere tenner.
I didn't know what it was, but it is big, and was £10, so that's all I needed as I'm a sucker for a bargain (or money pit project in reality).
Anyway, after some googling, and some rudimentary maths, it's a type XXI uboat model and measures approx 64 inches long.
By my reckoning, based on wikipedia's stated length for those boats of just under 77m, this would make it a 1/48 scale model (I think....).
Clearly it's been built as a finished sub at some point, but somewhere along the line had loads of its guts cruelly torn out, bundles of wires chopped through, and is in a pretty horrible state now, with tons of missing/damaged parts.
Still, it's a sub, and it's mine.
I have a fairly decent workshop with some machine tools etc, so it'll be interesting to see what parts I can fabricate myself on the lathe etc, and what parts I'll have to bite the bullet and spend horrible amounts on, but either way it's going to take a lot of progress to get this back on the water (assuming it once was).
Pics to follow later this evening (i.e. when I can smuggle it into the garage without the mrs seeing it)!
Not sure who manufactured this anyway. I found one or two likely references online earlier but have forgotten already so an evening of research awaits.
What I need to begin with is cleaning it and identifying everything still in it, and then try to create a huge list of everything it needs. So before I can do that, I need to properly understand the workings of it and figure it out from there, hopefully with input from you guys on where (ideally in the UK) I can get parts etc.
At the moment it primarily seems to have 2 main central compartments - one which is clearly for radio gear & motors etc, then one with the remains of some plumbing, which I assume was ballast related.
Hopefully once I put up some pics later someone can give some pointers on how it would have been set up before someone trashed it.
Looking forward to finding out more anyway.
![Smile](https://forum.subcommittee.com/core/images/smilies/smile.png)
Jim
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