Speedboat Schertel-Sachsenberg
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box
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sprue's
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spreu's
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spreu's
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manual, very elaborate...
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not a great fit (what was to be expected), some shaving with a knive has been done,...
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not a great fit (what was to be expected)
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some sanding and filing later
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canopy option 1: closed
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canopy option 2: open to the back
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canopy option 3: open to the front
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same with the torpedo
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Broken off some pins
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Replacements from cupper underway
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One cigar, ready for fins, rudders and screws
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The cigar was a bit too long for the screws
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Almost done sanding, then replacing the weldlines
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More filling needed
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Busy cleaning other parts
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replaced contact actuators in place
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tail mounted
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The PE rudders don't have enough space to be able to rotate, so the screw will be mounted a bit deeper.
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extention added
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Frontal wings added
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rear wings aren't trapezoid but rectangular... started changing the kit parts
Kommentarer
10 October 2016, 10:45
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a lot of filler and sanding later it's getting into shape... now I'm in doubt about mounting the canopy closed, open to the back or to the front. No inner detail has been foreseen in the kit...
14 October 2016, 06:52
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Picture 21, those are not contact actuators, that is supposed to be a spinner that arms the torpedo at a certain distance clearing the vehicle
25 October 2016, 16:38
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Hey Dave, as far as my searching went with regards to german torpedo's, the torpedo under this beast is a G7a, en this type was as wel as contact or magnetic actuated:
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There is a small screw at the tip that could be the mechanism to arm the torpedo.
Thx for pointing it out
25 October 2016, 16:46
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Well lookie there! I stand corrected, and yes, that is the arming spinner at the very front. You do not want an armed torpedo when you might be hitting those whiskers on the sea floor
25 October 2016, 20:50
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It looks like the torpedo is "armed" as the whiskers are already standing out.
25 October 2016, 20:50
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that's a practice head? not a armed one (übungskopf -> practice head)?
Here is a drawing from an armed one, that resembles the nose from the kit (the thing a the tip is missing, just to not to loose it), the vanes should be added
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26 October 2016, 13:22
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Never mind. I think it is just fine the way it is. I am just assuming thins apparently.
26 October 2016, 13:25
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no, on the contrary, it made me see things that I didn't notice before. but this kind had a dual trigger, that could be chosen by the captain. Magnetic (failure prone in the beginning) and contact. In later types, as the issues with the magnetic sensors were resolved, or the acoustic ones were used, these "contact hammers" disappeared from the torpedo's...
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It's still weird that they would include an obsolete torpedo as the G7a with this kit and not the G7e/T3, which would have been fully operational at that time... or the acoustic homing torpedo
26 October 2016, 13:31
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That IS interesting - they must have had some poor researchers when designing this kit.
26 October 2016, 15:17
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Busy cleaning parts at the moment, seems like a lot of dryfitting will be needed...