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Hello everyone,

 

I'm venturing into uncharted waters here, normally being a landlubber over in the AFV section where I'm half through a Mercedes-Benz L 4500 truck build. While mulling over cargo options, I briefly considered a S.L.C. "Maiale" as 'somethings a bit different' but thought it would be too long and too, well, 'torpedoey', to be feasible. But then I stumbled across the following which got the old cogs turning...

 

Early in the video we see a 'truncated' "Maiale" separated from it's warheads...

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The warheads subsequently being bolted onto the 'nose'...

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Hmmm, interesting. The "Maiale" sans warhead would probably fit onto the truck bed quite nicely, and the detached warhead(s) could then sit alongside, something like this with some rearrangement...

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It's a total flight of fancy with no evidence that they ever put one of these things on a truck, but why not? The decision was made, let's have a "Maiale" cargo!

 

I knew that Italeri did a nice 1/35 Siluro a Lenta Corsa (S.L.C - Italian, Low Speed Torpedo) also known as "Maiale" (Italian for pig, hence the topic name). I didn't know, however, that the kit is discontinued and so a bit tricky to get hold of. I did eventually managed to acquire one...

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I won't go into too much detail on the kit contents as there are several reviews available elsewhere. Suffice it to say that the kit is quite simple, being contained on a single sprue, with the warhead(s) already separated from the main body of the Pig (which needless to say  is very useful for what I plan to do - result!)...

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The kit also contains a small etch fret, some diver figures (probably won't be used), and a booklet giving additional information and a pretty comprehensive set of photos (which is a very nice touch)...

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I've made a cursory start on the build by starting a tidy of the welders mask front shield. Holes were drilled in the shield roof as indicated in the instructions, using small moulded depressions as a guide. The shield walls are far too thick, looking like they are fashioned from substantial armour plate. Some thinning will be needed here, which will unfortunately result in the shield interior detail being lost (not a bad thing given the ejector mark and general untidiness of the interior)...

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The shield should be thin plate similar to this photo grabbed from the kit booklet...

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After some scraping, sanding, sanding and scraping things start to look a bit better. I'll leave it to you to work out which side has been worked on in this before/after comparison shot...:smile:

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I need to be a bit wary though as the plastic is starting to get a tad thin...

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A quick word of warning before I sign off - there may be the odd truck picture appearing in this thread!

I'll try to keep these to the minimum, but if you want to venture over to the 'dark side' and see more, the parallel truck build can be found here.,..

 

Cheers, and thanks for looking,

 

Paul.

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This is a nice little kit I built one a couple of year back but only just managed to get it based up.

 

Oh and don't forget the seagulls they like a bit of Pizza crust  :whistle:

 

Stay Safe

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On 8/24/2021 at 8:46 PM, beefy66 said:

This is a nice little kit I built one a couple of year back but only just managed to get it based up.

It is indeed a little gem of a kit Beefy. It was your cracking build that sparked my interest in it truth be told, so the blame lies squarely on your shoulders. :wink:

 

On 8/27/2021 at 3:13 PM, Pig of the Week said:

There's great scope with this model to do a load of your famous PE and detailing..there must have been lots of pipe work and "plumbing" on these I'd have thought

You know me far too well Mr P - there will indeed be some nice shiny brass replacements for the moulded on plumbing!

 

Meanwhile, I've been beavering away on the front shield.

Looking at references, there doesn't appear to be a 'standard' shield for a Pig, there being much variation on shape and appearance. We have a shield with a window and eight ridges (as per the kit), a windowless variant with only four ridges, and seeming the most common are the windowless and smooth examples...

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Looking more closely at our variant, we see that the ridges appear to stop short of the shield edge. The kit, however, continues the ridges to the edge (if anything slightly over), giving a ragged, 'webbed' appearance. No matter, load the Swann-Morton with a new blade and the ridges are trimmed back quite easily. The end result is much improved, being neater, and looking to have thinner shield edges for good measure...

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The interior of the shield also has structure which again seems to vary greatly from Pig to Pig. We have an example of a quite complex ribbed structure, a variant with a much simplified rib arrangement, and an example of a totally smooth interior totally devoid of any structure. The kit had raised detail on the interior something similar to the complex example here, but much of this detail was lost during the work to thin the shield...

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I needed to reinstate some detail on the interior, but didn't fancy going the whole hog with the complex ribbing. I opted for a compromise and aim for a simple structure just to add a bit of interest. Zooming in on the example above we see that the ribbing is quite crude, being akin to metal rod roughly attached to the interior...

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Crude is good in my book, it being a perfect excuse to explain away my ham-fisted attempts of replicating the ribs. :wink:

My process was to firstly scribe the rib locations using some dymo tape as a guide, and then glue some suitably fine plastic rod into the scribed lines...

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It proved to be quite a lengthy and fiddly process, but eventually we had some simplistic internal ribbing...

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And with that the major refinement work on the shield was complete. I probably spent far too long on it than I should have, but the end result is much more delicate and to scale in my mind...

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There were one or two little jobs left to do though. While looking through references I noticed some rivet detail around the window. The box art shows some similar detail, but the window in the kit itself is rivetless. Out with the Archer rivet decals and the job is done (the rivet counters can have a field day here :smile:)...

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Another small job was to back drill the holes on the shield roof. 'Why do that?' you may ask. Well the plastic is quite thick here so the holes look more like tunnels, Back drilling gives the impresson of a thinner shield (though you have to be wary that you don't drill too far and end up with larger holes than you should!) The second image shows the effect when just a single hole is drilled. It's quite surprising the difference it makes...

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And finally, a small piece of spare etch was added to the shield front to replicate a fixing bracket, along with a small pin to aid fixing of the shield to the body of the Pig... 

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And with that the shield done. 'Thank the Lord for that', I hear you say. Don't worry, It'll be something totally different next time...

 

Cheers, and thanks for looking,

 

Paul.

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Top class as always 👍 

I'm guessing these subs were made by a number of different manufacturers due to the varying details / specs looks like the build quality was rather 'variable' too.

As a fairly specialised weapon you'd think that there wouldn't have been that many produced, but who knows ?

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On 9/1/2021 at 8:03 PM, Pig of the Week said:

Top class as always 👍 

I'm guessing these subs were made by a number of different manufacturers due to the varying details / specs looks like the build quality was rather 'variable' too.

As a fairly specialised weapon you'd think that there wouldn't have been that many produced, but who knows ?

Cheers Mr P. According to the booklet that comes with the kit, only around 50 SLCs were built, these being 'virtually hand-made, and different crafts showed different details'.

I guess this explains the variations that are evident from Pig to Pig.

 

Italeri have generally done a pretty good job, it being a lovely little kit. The conspicuous pipework looks clumsy though, there being a limit to what can be achieved moudling wise without resorting to separate parts for the pipes. The kit does include separate ends to the pipework, but the main plumbing runs do look rather unrealistic...

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The plan is to remove all the moulded on pipework and replace with brass rod/tube. At the rear we see various pipes emerging from (or disappearing into?) the body of the Pig. These junctions will serve as handy anchor points for the brass work to come. The two examples here further serve to illustrate the variations between machines (see the orientation of the pipework emerging from the side, and the panel line rivet detail)...

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A drilled piece of sprue will form the anchor point for the rearmost pipe emerging from the centreline. Brass tube will be inserted into the opening later...

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More drilled sprue with brass tube inserts created the anchor points for the pairs of pipes emerging from the sides...

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Another large drilled sprue section was inserted midships (look at me with the nautical terms :smile:) which will serve as a 'socket' to mount a handle of some kind. All this may seem like overkill, but I like to add these solid drilled sprues at any point where something may be rammed in later on (a lesson learnt from too many seam splitting incidents in the past)...

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It was then a case of gluing the Pig halves together and then slicing, paring, scraping and sanding to eradicate the moulded on pipework (which was a surprisingly lengthy process). Once the pipework had gone, it was then a case of restoring detail lost in the clean up process, or create detail underlying the 'ghost' pipes. The teardrop depressions here were tricky to replicate - fortunately there will eventually be new brass pipework to disguise things...

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Some detail lost in the seam cleanup was the rear panel line and associated rivets. Not such a bad thing as the panel line was indistinct and misaligned (one of the few poor areas in the kit). The existing detail was fully eradicated, a new panel line scribed, and Archer rivet decals added...

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An attempt was made to replicate the flange surrounding the pipe exit points. A search through the spare etch box came up with some pretty close matches which tidy up the area nicely...

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That more or less covers the preparation of the Pig body ready for the introduction of the pipework. The instrument 'binnacle' has also been hollowed out aiming to give some depth to the instruments (which are very 2D, more of which in a subsequent post)...

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Cheers, and thanks for looking,

 

Paul.

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On 9/15/2021 at 8:24 AM, Pig of the Week said:

Nice one 👍 

That's going  to look great with proper pipe work, I scraped all the mouded on pipework off my locomotive in similar fashion.

Moulded on pipes really let down a quality kit, you'd think they'd have moved on from that by now.

Cheers Mr P. Playing Devil's advocate, I can see that some would prefer the moulded on pipework. The alternative would be for the pipes to be provided as separate frangible parts, which no doubt would cause cries of 'Why on earth couldn't the pipes have been moulded on? I've got all these small part to clean up and I've broken most of them.' :wink:

 

Recently I've been focused on the 'control wire tubes' (not sure what they should be called but they'll simply be 'tubes' from now on). The tubes run along the spine of the Pig, containing wires that respond to movements from the yoke at the front, to control the rudder and diving planes at the rear...

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The tubes are represented on the kit by moulded pipework on the spine section, with simple rods being glued on at the rear (parts 29A)...

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I'm sure that we can improve the tubes, the first job being the removal of the moulded on pipework which will be replaced by 0.8mm brass tube...

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Holes need to be drilled through the Pig seats to accept the brass tube, which looked like a tricky job given the need to keep the drilled hole true along the length of the seats. Fortunately the seats were hollow, so the drill bit could be guided from below...

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After some careful drilling we could do this...

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The next stage was to widen the holes to accept some lengths of 1mm diameter brass tube that will act as 'bushes' for the main tubing to pass through. Is it just me, or does that second picture look like a Hippo? Maybe I need more ventilation when using the TET...🤪

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The 'bushes' provide a couple of benefits. Firstly, they act as a guide making it easy for the main tubing to be slid on and off the Pig, Secondly, they neaten things off nicely...

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The seats as provided in the kit are a bit of a disappointment, bearing little resemblance to the rough and ready wooden seats seen on the real thing. The seats remind me of something knocked up in a school woodwork lesson. I made a bird-box that looked quite similar... :smile:

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Some scribing and scraping attempted to give an impression that the seats were separate from the Pig body. I also scribed lines to suggest how the seats were constructed, all of which may be visible in these admittedly poor pictures...

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Finally, the kit originally had a rivet line midships which was totally eradicated during seam cleanup as I couldn't find any evidence for the rivets in references. When looking for seat information however, I did find evidence of the rivets. The rivet and panel line was duly restored...

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And that brings things up date. Here's a few shots to give a flavour of the current state of play. The spine section and tubes are not affixed as there are one or two outstanding jobs to compete...

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Cheers, and thanks for looking,

 

Paul.

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That's looking the business now 👍... As for the real life pig's seats you'd struggle to make anything look that crap wouldn't you ! I guess they weren't thinking of the whole machine as having a very long life expectancy anyway.

That said, there must be a few surviving hence the modern reference pics.

Out of interest whats the approx length of the complete model ?

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21 hours ago, Pig of the Week said:

That's looking the business now 👍... As for the real life pig's seats you'd struggle to make anything look that crap wouldn't you ! I guess they weren't thinking of the whole machine as having a very long life expectancy anyway.

That said, there must be a few surviving hence the modern reference pics.

Out of interest whats the approx length of the complete model ?

Cheers for the comments Mr P,

There are a few surviving examples, my prime reference being the one at the Museo Storico Navale in Venice.

 

As for your query on the model length, well the answer is 'it depends' :smile:

 

If you exclude the warhead, I measure the model at approximately 140mm long, this taking into account the propeller assembly which is yet to be added (the picture doesn't reflect this measurement I assume due to parallax effects). I've included a penny and my faithful scalpel to give some indication of scale...

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The standard single warhead measures approximately 53mm, and the rare double warhead 70mm...

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So in summary we'd have lengths of:

  • 140mm for a Pig sans warhead.
  • 193mm for one with the single warhead.
  • 210mm for one with the double warhead.

Which ends up being a ridiculously complex answer to a very simple question - sorry about that matey :wink:

 

 

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On 10/1/2021 at 11:19 AM, Pig of the Week said:

Was the double warhead deployed as 2 separate bombs or just use as a bigger charge if deemed necessary btw ?

Erm, truth be told I don't know Mr P, but it is an interesting question.

 

Information on the double warhead is quite sketchy, the booklet that comes with the kit merely saying that they are 'rare'...

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You may know this already, but the warhead was slung under the keel of the target, in what must have been a time consuming process that was fraught with danger. The attackers would then set the fuse timer, and scarper pretty quickly I'd have thought....

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I guess they're hoping to break the back of the ship when things go boom. So maybe the double warhead is just to get a bigger boom and so more chance of a mission kill?

I suspect not as the warheads appeared to have separate fuses and separate suspension rings (highlighted) as if they would be used independently...

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My guess (and it is a guess) is that the goal would be to use the double warheads on separate targets. Breaching the harbour defences would always have been have been a major challenge, so if you manage to get in there why not double your chances by having two warheads? That being said I'd have thought you'd be hard pushed to find two targets, string up the changes, and get out of there before your batteries ran out of juice. Maybe, maybe not?:shrug:

 

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Interesting to conjecture, as you say, the two have separate fittings so could clearly deploy individually,  maybe the crew could elect to do either one big bang or two smaller ones depending on the target ship/ships and the situation..

Wonder what kind of duration the battery life of the sub was, in real terms ? 

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On 10/4/2021 at 11:33 PM, Pig of the Week said:

Interesting to conjecture, as you say, the two have separate fittings so could clearly deploy individually,  maybe the crew could elect to do either one big bang or two smaller ones depending on the target ship/ships and the situation..

Wonder what kind of duration the battery life of the sub was, in real terms ? 

Correlating battery life to range, I've seen the range quoted as 10-15 nautical miles, the kit booklet stating the upper range being possible 'at the 2.3 knots economy speed'. Assuming that the Pigs were dropped off a few miles away from their targets, I guess they'd have a bit of leeway to potter around looking for multiple victims - albeit slowly. :smile:

 

 

Before getting stuck into the pipework, I thought I'd do something about the strange circular depression on the spine section of the Pig. I couldn't find any clear references, only tantalising glimpses of what looks like a shallow flan tin below the dorsal skin. I cannot hazard a guess a to what it may be, but let's see if we can improve on the kit offering...

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The hole was opened up in the spine, a 'dish' was scratched from evergreen's finest and then attach to a filed depression in the main body of the Pig. When the spine section is subsequently overlayed we get something similar to the 'thing'...

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The spine section could then be attached to the main body. Credit to Italeri here as the fit was exemplary with neither fettling nor filler coming into play...

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With that done there was no reason why the pipework couldn't start to be recreated. Beginning gently, the initial focus was on the pair of pipes that emerge at the stern and run the length of the Pig towards the helm position...

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Towards the helm the pipes terminate in a veritable rat's nest of messiness (I think they must have used the same plumber who did my central heating :wink:). I thought it would be wise not to attempt a full pipe run, feeling it would be better to have a break at the driver's leg support area (where joins could be readily hidden). The 'fiddly bits' up front could then be dealt with separately in smaller manageable sections...

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The pipes at the stern have some pretty substantial connector nuts which I'd need to replicate. I found a pretty rough piece of hex rod, mounted it on some brass rod, sanded it to approximately the correct size, and then sliced several 'nuts' off...

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Then it was a case of 'trial and error' bending of 0.8mm brass rod to produce the first stretch of pipework. One of the manufactured nuts was then threaded on, along with a smaller nut sliced off a 1/35 sheet of 'nuts and bolts' from Meng. Two small 'collars' of 1.0mm brass tube were also cut and threaded on, these being used as the attachment points for the pipework on the Pig. They will also serve to provide some separation between parallel runs of pipework...

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Repeating the process resulted in the second pipe run. The front collars provide an attachment point for the fiddly pipework to come in the 'rat's nest'...

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Truth be told I'm not 100% sold on the connector nuts as I think they may be a tad too big. I may try to reduce them a bit, but not sure how in all honesty so may just live with them...

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Cheers, and thanks for looking,

 

Paul.

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On 10/15/2021 at 8:50 PM, Pig of the Week said:

Some cracking plumbing there sir !

Thanks for your continued support on this Mr P - I appreciate the company 👍

 

There has been much plumbing going on, and there will be much plumbing in the future. If plumbing isn't your thing, I'd recommend that you look away now. :wink:

 

Firstly the pipes that run the length of the Pig on the port side have been added. Not a great deal to say on this as the process was identical to that described for those on the starboard side...

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With the main pipe runs complete, it was now time to make inroads into the rat's nest of plumbing towards to front of the Pig. Much of the pipework emanates from a five legged octopus like thing (let's call it a 'pentapus' from now on)...

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The kit does an OK job in representing this 'pentapus', although it has one leg missing and it looks a tad anemic...

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I thought I'd scratch up a new 'pentapus', starting with the 'body' (which kind of looks like a minion in this shot :smile:)...

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The body is perhaps slightly overscale due to the fact that it had to cater for three tubes slacked over each other. It is a compromise, but at least we will have solid anchor points for the plumbing to come...

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Starting easy, the first leg was a nice simple connector from the topmost starboard pipe run to the 'pentapus'. It all went surprisingly smoothly...

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Same again on the port side then. No, sadly not. The port side leg joins a continuation of the lower pipe run, this continuation disappearing into the bowels of the Pig at a point near the nose...

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I thought it should be easy enough to solder two lengths of brass rod together to form the connection. Well I tried, I really did, but I must admit it beat me. If I tried to bend the leg to shape after soldering the connection, the joint would be too stressed and it would fail. If I bent the leg to fit first before soldering the connection, I couldn't then achieve the correct angle on the joint which meant that things no longer fit correctly. I the end I resorted to CA, which is a shame...

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And this is the current state of play. Softly, softly, catchee monkey...

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Cheers, and thanks for looking,

 

Paul.

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On 10/31/2021 at 8:30 AM, Pig of the Week said:

That's a bit of a 'tour de force' ( there's probably an equivalent Italian phrase! ) this model's looking very impressive indeed..

I've done a fair bit of old school pipe fitting in real life 1-1 scale and I bet they had fun getting all those pipe bends to line up right

Thanks Mr P. Not sure about an equivalent Italian phrase, but 'spaghetti' certainly springs to mind :wink:

 

I been slowly plodding on with this and thought it was about time for a quick update. I'm sure you're all fed up to the back teeth with bent brass pipes by now (I certainly am!) so I'll keep things short and sweet.

 

The next two legs on the 'pentapus' lead into what I think are trim controls of some kind, these being attached to the control binnacle. The binnacle is one of the few poor areas in the kit, the gauges being simply represented by decals which give an unrealistic 2D appearance:

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The binnacle will be totally rebuilt as a box structure containing the scratch built gauges that will have some depth, this being the start of the process:

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The trim controls that are attached to the binnacle have also been heavily modified to cater for two in/out pipes (the kit version only had a single pipe). The uppermost pipe leads into/from the 'pentapus':

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Here we have the rebuilt binnacle box with the modified trim controls and the associated pipework. Fours legs on the 'pentapus', just one to go:

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Cheers, and thanks for looking,

 

Paul.

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22 hours ago, Mike said:

Looks really nice Paul. Good work

Blimey, it's the boss! <adjusts tie and tries to look busy> :smile:

Cheers Mike, I appreciate the comment.

 

22 hours ago, bentwaters81tfw said:

Late to the party as usual.

Better late than never Mr B, and thanks for the link 👍

 

22 hours ago, Pig of the Week said:

Really looking the business now 👍

Shame all the pipework is missing on the displayed relic above...

Thanks Mr P. The relic is apparently a 'rebuilt' Maiale that was erected at Taormina as a memorial to local boy Sgt Salvatore Leone who was killed during a Pig attack on Gibraltar in Dec 1942. Not sure about it's originality or accuracy to be honest, It reminds me of the fibreglass 'Spitfires' you see at various museums. :shrug:

 

22 hours ago, Iceman 29 said:

Very nice job! Love it.

 

A model in brass, hand made of my friend Dominique:

Cheers Icy. Your friend Dominique is very talented, those models look fantastic! It's tricky to judge the scale, but I'd guess around 1/16th?

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54 minutes ago, bentwaters81tfw said:

It is not fibreglass, I took the published photo.

I probably wasn't clear enough. The Maiale at Taormina reminds me of fibreglass Spitfires insomuch as it looks fake and toy like:

 

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