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Will the weirdness from the Ukraine never stop? I hope not!
https://flic.kr/p/BCPRbp][/url]Turtle-01 by N.T. Izumi, on Flickr
The Turtle has the distinction of being the first submarine to be used in combat, albeit unsuccessfully. Imagine hand cranking that contraption towards an enemy vessel, setting the corkscrew thingy into the target's hull, then frantically hand cranking to get away before the timer detonated the "torpedo"!
https://flic.kr/p/CckBcX][/url]Turtle-02 by N.T. Izumi, on Flickr
https://flic.kr/p/C2KxTS][/url]Turtle-03 by N.T. Izumi, on Flickr
https://flic.kr/p/BeQ7P1][/url]Turtle-04 by N.T. Izumi, on Flickr
The kit is - tiny! There are lots of discrepancies between the actual kit and the box art, but from what I understand a lot of the details of the real Turtle are conjectural. After looking over the kit, I think the clear hull is a valiant but wasted effort to provide portholes. Since the porthhole rings are provided in PE metal, I think it would be better if the builder devised his/her own method of drilling out the openings and fabricating the tubes to take the PE rings.
“Ya ya ya, unicorn papoi!”
Would be even smaller in 1/350th for those who want something to display with a modern sub........
G, you find the most intresting things.
Steve
Building a kit from your stash is like cutting a head off a Hydra, two more take it's place.
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modelcrazy G, you find the most intresting things.
it's a bad habit of mine - I think I would have been diagnosed with ADD if I were a kid today. The weirdness keeps me engaged.
Sprue-ce, a 1/350 kit would resemble a pin head! But the idea to have one next to a modern attack sub is intriguing...
Thats a real neat thing.
Modeling is an excuse to buy books.
Sprue-ce Goose Would be even smaller in 1/350th for those who want something to display with a modern sub.....
Would be even smaller in 1/350th for those who want something to display with a modern sub.....
There is one in 1:72 scale, resin & brass. It is about the size of my thumb nail. Fixing the PE snorkle tubes and hand-cranked propeller screws was a real challenge.
It is probably now OOP and I think it was made by Burl Burlingame, current curator at the air museum at Ford Island, Hawaii.
Oh, and it is sitting next to my 1:350 scale USS Texas SSN
The MikroMir subjects are unique. How about a steam-powered submarine! Their Hunley submarine has plating details on the inner surface. The hatches are molded in clear -- so it could be built with an interior (+/- accurate) with not a great deal of effort
Burl built one of his kits and brought it to the club meeting many years ago. Yeah it was really tiny!
Wow! I remember giving a report on the 'Turtle' (coolest name ever!) back in school! Great find G!
I keep saying we're in the 'Golden Age' of modeling- I never thought I'd see injection molded, main-stream kits of half the stuff coming out these days and then we get something as esoteric this!
"I dream in fire but work in clay." -Arthur Machen
Wa'll Now ;
I'll be a Yunkeys Munkle !
Whoo wooda thunk that a model of de Toitle wooda showed up Before I left dis mortal coil .Why's it called a coil anyway ?But 1/35 ? OOOh dat's small ! T.B.
I got one a few months back. Not a bad kit at all. I agree about the clear plastic hull; it's pretty pointless.
I also think the scale is wrong. It's hard to say (because we don't know the dimensions of the original), but I think the kit is closer to 1/48 scale. There's just no way a 1/35 person would fit in that hull.
Youth, talent, hard work, and enthusiasm are no match for old age and treachery.
Guessing that Real G's cutting mat has a 1" grid, I'd agree.
Hey you guys are right! The hull scales out to less than 48" high, if one is to believe that the kit is in 1/35.
I don't think this discrepancy will generate the firestorm of Eduard's "BF-109-O-Gate", but yeah, the scale appears to be wrong. I'd better build it quick before the Scale Police arrive!
I hope other Civil War submarines show up in plastic. A 1/35 Alligator would be nice!
What part of Honolulu are you from. My wife is from Kalihi, and I'm a McCully Moilili boy. Nice to see a builder from Honolulu, it looks like a very interesting kit. I'll be watching this build!
Toshi
On The Bench: Revell 1/48 B-25 Mitchell
Married to the most caring, loving, understanding, and beautiful wife in the world. Mrs. Toshi
Toshi,
I was born, raised, and now work in Kaimuki.
Do you attend the local IPMS meetings? They meet at the Valor in the Pacific something-something-somehting (the USS Arizona Memorial Visitor's Center) at 6:00 pm on the last Saturday of the month except for December.
The Turtle kit was given to a friend that expressed an interest in it, so another one is headed this way hopefully before the end of the month. Hobby Terra usually delivers in 11 days, pretty good for a country that is being attacked by Russia! I plan on working on the kit on New Year's eve, as another model buddy started this tradition a number of years ago. It's fun being a nerd!
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