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"Underway on Steam Power" ! My model of HMS K26 - the last of the class of steam powered submarines launched during WWI. I converted it from the Mikro-Mir 1/350 scale kit of HMS K4 - by lengthening the hull by 11.4mm and scratch-building a new raised casing and bridge....... The bow was also altered to make it taller - using Milliput to get the basic shape. The WIP is here More photos of the finished model...... Comparison between the kit (K4) at top and my conversion (K26) below - note that K26 is longer by 11.4mm. Now - anyone got any plans of HMS X.1 ?? Ken
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The last few of the K-Class subs had their hulls lengthened by 4m - from 103 to 107 metres - that's 114mm in 1/350 scale. I only have a small side profile drawing to work from - but I'd like to have a go at making HMS K26 - the only lengthened K to enter service. As well as a lengthened hull, she also has a raised, longer casing with a taller bridge and a raised bow (different from the 'Swan Bows' fitted to her shorter sisters) with six torpedo tubes and will look very distinctive next to Mikro-Mir's K4. Using the outline drawing as a guide, I cut the hull into front and rear halves - just in front of the beam torpedo tubes.... This does unfortunately mean that there will be a parallel section on the curving hull - but I wanted to preserve the torpedo mouldings, which are in the same place on both hulls. I also removed the casing - it will be replaced with a taller scratch-built version. I re-joined the hull halves using strips of plastic card glued inside the hull - the gaps on the outside will be filled with further strips of card. This photo shows the plastic card strips inside the hull..... This is progress so far - all very Heath-Robinsonish - but nothing that Milliput can't put right...... I'm sure that Mikro-Mir will re-issue the kit as a short-hull K with a Swan Bow - but I'm not sure if they will go so far as to make a K26. Anyway, I'm enjoying my conversion...... making it up as I go along....... Ken
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