1/72nd Revell Gato Wolfpack

[ober freak]

Re: 1/72nd Revell Gato Wolfpack

The Eduard PE deck resembles the modern deck on Cobia, not the wartime plating.

[JWLaRue]

Re: 1/72nd Revell Gato Wolfpack

Ahh...didn't know that. Could the sections be used to 'create' a proper wartime deck?

-Jeff

[ssn705]

Re: 1/72nd Revell Gato Wolfpack

I'm hoping my research is good and I will be able to use the Eduard deck to replicate some of the deck for Croaker as an SSK...but that is a long time down the road.

Cheers,

Dave

[thor]

Re: 1/72nd Revell Gato Wolfpack

Jeff,

If I can find a nice deck drawing I can machine the existing, incorrect deck off and then CNC machine a correct deck for it in ABS sheet.

Matt

[jefftytoo]

Re: 1/72nd Revell Gato Wolfpack

Sorta makes me glad that, when I eventually get to it, Harder's deck will be all "teak"—corrugated styrene closely resembling teak strips in a very close-to-scale pattern. Right now though, the deck of a certain Victorian fantasy submarine is occupying my mind a lot more. PE, here I come!

JeffP

[JWLaRue]

Re: 1/72nd Revell Gato Wolfpack

Jeff,

If I can find a nice deck drawing I can machine the existing, incorrect deck off and then CNC machine a correct deck for it in ABS sheet.

Matt

Matt,

I have quite a number of deck drawings that I acquired when contemplating making a PE deck. Let's talk to see if I have what you need.

-Jeff

[thor]

Re: 1/72nd Revell Gato Wolfpack

That would be great, Jeff! The 1/48th WAHOO pattern is resting under my bench. After the 571 is released she will be next. This is a good trial run on a Fleetboat in preparation for that project.

[thor]

Re: 1/72nd Revell Gato Wolfpack

Have you guys seen this?

http://www.maritime.org/fleetsub/index.htm

[ober freak]

Re: 1/72nd Revell Gato Wolfpack

Ahoy!

My deck is closing slowly.
After 12 packages of strips I reached this state, and I think 3 or 4 more where needed to finish the task.

[JWLaRue]

Re: 1/72nd Revell Gato Wolfpack

Have you guys seen this?

http://www.maritime.org/fleetsub/index.htm

For those who'd like their own copies, you can buy reprints of this excellent book. The originals can also found on places like eBay, but often cost quite a bit.

-Jeff

[ssn705]

Re: 1/72nd Revell Gato Wolfpack

Ahoy!

My deck is closing slowly.
After 12 packages of strips I reached this state, and I think 3 or 4 more where needed to finish the task.

Awesome. Can't wait to see the whole deck down. Still amazed by the amount of detail you are working in to the deck.

Cheers,

Dave

[wlambing]

Re: 1/72nd Revell Gato Wolfpack

The old textbook would be limited to use for doing the piping runs under the superstructure in the areas where you can see under the deck. The other external details in the fold out drawings are pretty limited. The Salvage air valves and their placement would be useful, too.

Happy modelling!

B^)

[pirate]

Re: 1/72nd Revell Gato Wolfpack

Just visited Silversides in Muskegon, MI last weekend. Totally awesome. Rainy day so no one else there. Volunteer working on boat who used to serve on fleet oat during Vietnam war gave me a personal tour explaining tons of detail in every room on the boat, including letting me go I to the con and up on the conning tower, normally closed off to the public.

[pirate]

Re: 1/72nd Revell Gato Wolfpack

I'm sorry. Must have been in Australia when I took those photos.

My iPhone always flips the images when I try to send them anywhere.

[jefftytoo]

Re: 1/72nd Revell Gato Wolfpack

Isn't she a beaut, Pete? I've toured her four times now, I believe, most recently with Kisler just a few years back. We got into her conning tower too—always fun. (Tom and I even entered target data into the TDC, spinning the dials.) A fine boat—and in great shape. Here's a shot from my very first visit at some point way back in the '80s. I post this one because it was a rainy day like yours, and she looks every bit the weathered war hero she is.

JeffP