WWII British U-Class Submarine

[thor]

Does anyone have a 1/32nd scale WWII British U Class sub hull or know if such a kit is still made?

I have always admired that boat and want to build one.

[Guest]

Deja Vu. There are tools for 1/32 U class. It was mounded from a wooden model, and two or three castings taken. Probably unlikely any more will be available, but one of the castings was up for grabs, although it was at an advanced stage of construction. I recall passing details on to you some time back.

[thor]

Andy,
Yes, Sir. You did, indeed. I remember that. I searched for the post and was unable to find it. Do you have any idea where the tooling or casting may be?

[Guest]

They were with Nigel Edmonds, former AMS chairman. He made the tooling using the late Brian Alps wooden wonder. One of the boats went to Brian, and Nigel had another for himself. Not sure if there were more made.

You'll find him over on the AMS forum page.

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[Guest]

The dark blue boat with all the gubbins is Nigel's. not sure if he still has this, but it's possible. The engel tank/pumped ballast hybrid set-up is also part of that boat.

The light blue boat with the red anti foul was Brian's GRP boat, and the last three pics show Brian's original plywood boat.

[thor]

Andy,

Thanks again, so much, for your help! Nigel responded and said the boat is way out of scale and not worth messing with. I guess I will have to work this one up myself.

[Guest]

Okay. Well that was the only one I know of that was close. UK boats have never been hugely popular, even with UK modellers. The late John Darnell produced a great many boats from our Navy, including a u-class, but he tended to scale boats for reasonable handling and transportation, so most of the larger boats were scaled around the 1/48(ish) mark.

[PaulC]

I'm curious what all the syringe's were for in the stern of Brian's boat? It looks like he has torpedoes set up. Perhaps to adjust trim to compensate for firing, etc?

[bigdave]

Good question Paul.
Me too?

[Ralph --- SSBN 598]

I would like to know what they are for as well.

What I see in the photos are syringes that operate the forward planes and maybe the retraction horns.
But there are three so, I am guessing.
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I would like to see the other end of the hoses feeding the syringes.

[JWLaRue]

I too see one that is connected to the bow planes. But that's the only one that I think can be clearly seen to be connected to something. Am very curious to learn how those systems were designed and worked.

-Jeff

[bigdave]

Then we are in agreement.
BD