ORP JASTRZAB (USS S-25) / 1:200 / Modelarstwo Okretowe

[Michael Mash]

Hello Peter,
This is a fine hull.
I think submarines are a stiff challenge. Getting all the hull parts to fit together smoothly must be a challenge.
Mike

[PeterW]

Here we go ...

Today i´ve done the keel.
I was a little bit afraid of this part. Especially with the round end on the aft. That almost made me mad ... ... but finally i got it fairly shaped.

As suggested by the designer, the middle part of the keel is laminated onto normal card stock. After glueing the sides, i filled the keel with some stripes of cardboard. That provides a good glueing surface and allows better handling, when attaching it to the hull.

That´s it for today.

RUN SILENT - RUN DEEP

Peter

[PeterW]

Hallo Mike,

that´s why i would never build an airplane, at least for now.
I´m always impressed, how these planes come out.
I think, there is less room for "corrective surgery" than on waterline ships.

Rgds
Peter

[PeterW]

Some News from the slipways at the Fore River Shipyard

I´m now going to start with the outfitting of the hull.
Beginning on the stern, first thing to add is a tiny "appendix", which later on holds the shafts of the rudder and the aft dive planes.

The part has to be folded and glued into a hollow box. I even didn´t try to make it this way. I´m pretty sure, that i would have collapsed it right away.
I made a core from heavy cardboard instead and glued the part around.
The little holes will take the rudder shafts (from wire) later on.

[PeterW]

Next items are the upper and lower fins.
First the upper fin, square shaped in the fore part and straight on its end.
The rudder horn is doubled up by cardstock and provided with a groove for the piece of wire, which will be the rudder axle.

For a proper positioning of the upper fin i´ve assembled the exit hatch first (probably an emergency exit) and glued it to the marked spot on the boat´s hull. The fin is glued right abaft the hatch trunk.

Below the hull the lower fin finds its place. Made of doubled cardboard to provide enough "flesh" for the carving of the groove.

I inserted the wire to check the proper alignment of the parts.
So far it looks well, all parts seem to be in line ...

[PeterW]

Last part for today is the rudder itself.

It is made of doubled cardboard es well.
I noted some discrepancies on the rudder parts during the assembling. First, the indication line for the groove does not match those on the counterparts from the fins.
Secondly, the balancer (forward part of the rudder blade) of the printed rudder part are to wide and have to be trimmed to the size and shape of the doubler piece.
Otherwise the rudder blade will not fit to the hull.

The necessary adjustments are made and the rudder is attached to the hull.

Thats all for today. Next step will be the aft diving planes and the propellers.

Till then,
RUN SILENT - RUN DEEP

Peter

[De Ruyter]

Hi Peter,

Although you suffer some problems with the hull, it looks great to me. The gun is very nice. I have still some slight problems to roll the paper into nice tubes. Looking forward to your next post.

Grussen aus Holland

Andrew

[Michael Mash]

Hello Peter,
So this rudder will swing back and forth. Great job.
And I must say, all the seams on the hull look so smooth.
Looking forward to more.
Mike

[marco1971]

hello peter,
it's look very great. My compliments.

Marco

[Papercut]

Wonderful build of this sub and I like the clean building style.......look forward to more.