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Today I started a new project. I have long wanted to build a model of a submarine from the First World War, namely the "U-Cruiser Germany", which was converted into the "U-151".
As the project continues, I will share my successes and experiences with you. I appreciate your comments and advice as well as the acceptance of all graphical material on this boat.
First, I want to introduce everyone who reads this entry to the look of this boat.
The boat was designed in a semi-turn design. This means that the strong hull had an outer hull on the sides and placed between those hull ballast tanks, cylinders with compressed air and other auxiliary mechanisms.
The ground boat was designed and built as a commercial boat and carried no weapons.
Initially, when it was a boat "Germany", it had a narrow deck with a small tower. When the First World War broke out, the deck in the middle part of the boat was widened and two huge 150mm caliber cruiser guns along the boat's axis and two 88mm guns installed on the sides of the tower. Together with two bow torpedo tubes, this boat was a serious force.
A total of 7 boats of this type were built, and only the first three U-151, U-152, U-153 were equipped with 88 mm guns, and the following came without these cannons in operation.
These cannons are no longer installed, most likely due to their inefficiency due to their short barrel (only 30 calibers).
I would like to use the example of this model to explain and illustrate the entire design process step by step. Modelers who want to collect plastic models from prefabricated kits will not be interested. But if you want to learn how to build a model from the drawing to the sinking of the finished model with your own hands, you will get your first basic knowledge.
Creating a model can be divided into several phases.
Stage 1 - Making the "master model" of the boat hull
for this purpose, several parts must be cut out of plywood. In the future, since we want to make the matrix according to this master model and then the body parts of the fiberglass model ourselves, we build the master model from the two halves, which are divided by the midships plane.
We cut from plywood, 8 mm thick (our model is 186 cm long), two blanks "side view", two blanks to the half of the deck, two blanks half "plan view" and all "frames". In addition, ribs must cut on midships line.
Next you need to reduce the width of each half of the deck and the width of each half of the "plan view" to the thickness of the "side view" (in our case 8 mm). The height and width of each "frame" half must also be reduced by 8 mm. In each half of the "plan view" cuts must be made in the right places to assemble the halves of the "frames". This completes the preliminary work.
Then we assemble the prepared structural elements. To do this, we attach a side view on a flat surface and, with the help of wood glue, glue half of the deck, half of the plan view and half of the frames on it. All parts must be glued strictly at an angle of 90 degrees to the side view. As a result, we get two designs, as in the photo.
Today I started a new project. I have long wanted to build a model of a submarine from the First World War, namely the "U-Cruiser Germany", which was converted into the "U-151".
As the project continues, I will share my successes and experiences with you. I appreciate your comments and advice as well as the acceptance of all graphical material on this boat.
First, I want to introduce everyone who reads this entry to the look of this boat.
The boat was designed in a semi-turn design. This means that the strong hull had an outer hull on the sides and placed between those hull ballast tanks, cylinders with compressed air and other auxiliary mechanisms.
The ground boat was designed and built as a commercial boat and carried no weapons.
Initially, when it was a boat "Germany", it had a narrow deck with a small tower. When the First World War broke out, the deck in the middle part of the boat was widened and two huge 150mm caliber cruiser guns along the boat's axis and two 88mm guns installed on the sides of the tower. Together with two bow torpedo tubes, this boat was a serious force.
A total of 7 boats of this type were built, and only the first three U-151, U-152, U-153 were equipped with 88 mm guns, and the following came without these cannons in operation.
These cannons are no longer installed, most likely due to their inefficiency due to their short barrel (only 30 calibers).
I would like to use the example of this model to explain and illustrate the entire design process step by step. Modelers who want to collect plastic models from prefabricated kits will not be interested. But if you want to learn how to build a model from the drawing to the sinking of the finished model with your own hands, you will get your first basic knowledge.
Creating a model can be divided into several phases.
Stage 1 - Making the "master model" of the boat hull
for this purpose, several parts must be cut out of plywood. In the future, since we want to make the matrix according to this master model and then the body parts of the fiberglass model ourselves, we build the master model from the two halves, which are divided by the midships plane.
We cut from plywood, 8 mm thick (our model is 186 cm long), two blanks "side view", two blanks to the half of the deck, two blanks half "plan view" and all "frames". In addition, ribs must cut on midships line.
Next you need to reduce the width of each half of the deck and the width of each half of the "plan view" to the thickness of the "side view" (in our case 8 mm). The height and width of each "frame" half must also be reduced by 8 mm. In each half of the "plan view" cuts must be made in the right places to assemble the halves of the "frames". This completes the preliminary work.
Then we assemble the prepared structural elements. To do this, we attach a side view on a flat surface and, with the help of wood glue, glue half of the deck, half of the plan view and half of the frames on it. All parts must be glued strictly at an angle of 90 degrees to the side view. As a result, we get two designs, as in the photo.
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