British HMS X Craft Submarine

Mike Kryza
Acki - I'm in... 🙂

Christian Bruer
Intersting subject. Will have a seat an watch🙂

Hanno Kleinecke
Yep, me too ! 🙂

Acki
Welcome on board mates. Thanks for looking.

Holger Kranich
180 liegen an , Herr KaLeu! Das muß das Boot abkönnen...😢

Cool subject, Acki! These where the ones to sink the Tirpitz, am i right?

Christian Bruer
Nope Holger, Tirpitz was sunk by the Royal Air Force and not the Royal Navy. Special equipped Lancaster Squadron dropped Talboy bombs on Tirpitz two times. The Battleship finally sunk and heeled over on 12th November 1944.

More than one year before the Battleship was damaged by X-Crafts while lying at anchor in a Netzkasten (net box). Out of eight X-Craft only two lay their charges of two tons each and damaged the Battleship.

If you'd like to read more of the British attacks on Tirpitz you should take a look to this link:
en.wikipedia.org/wik..n_battleship_Tirpitz
See 2.3. British attacks on Tirpitz

Cheers, Christian

Acki
Done it. I´m not really satisfied with this kit but it´s ok for me. Some details are missing especially the holdings of the mines left/right. When I realized this it was to late so I added only wire to have a connection to the boat. Maybe nobody will notice this mistake and I won´t tell it.😉 The X-Craft didn´t sink the Tirpitz but damaged her badly (operation source). I tried a little bit in rust in this project but I still have to learn a lot. Thanks for looking! Hope you like what you see.

Sebastian Schl.
Hast du schick hinbekommen. Und die Fotos zusammen mit dem Bibber machen gut was her. Weiter so. Wäre ja was was du mit zum Stammtisch bringen könntest.

Acki
Danke Sebastian, aber ich glaube nicht, daß ein Modell den Transport überlebt.

Dave Flitton
Nice work!!

Mike Kryza
Feinerle 👍 - Acki now it's time for you constructing a transport-box... 🙂

Acki
Thanks mates. Very kind.

Christian Bruer
Very nice work and finish Acki! I really like it.

Holger Kranich
Thats a well worn and rusted x-craft! How was the build? The kit looks good to me!

Arne Greve
Acki, I don´t like it! It is ugly, it looks worn, it is dirty. There are no lights and colors. Only grey, grey and grey. Bäääähhhh!

Arne Greve
And now the truth: Acki, I like your X-Craft. It looks really fantastic. Maybe you put it into a Diorama? The X-Craft right for the shore coast of Normandy? ;-D

Acki
Thanks Christian, Holger and Arne. Very motivating. @Arne: in that case the mines weren´t needed.

Stefan Fraundorfer
U-Boote sehen im Modell ja manchmal etwas fade aus. Aber nicht den X-Craft. Die Alterung ist dir perfekt gelungen und macht das Modell so richtig lebendig.

Marc Stecher
Muss mich anschließen, die Alterung ist klasse! Sieht super aus!