I need help

**Hiob** · #1 02-23-2014, 01:58 PM

Hello,

I am making IJN Hiei at the moment, and I would like to make lifeboats and cutters. Original parts in the kit are not exactly what I would like them to be, that's why I want to make them from scratch, add much more detail, and make them (especially their shape) much more accurate.

Do any of you have a technical drawings or blueprints showing the cross-section of the 15m Japanese cutter from WW2 used on battleships?

Best regards,
Adam

**justme** · #2 03-03-2014, 05:48 PM

Hi,
First of all my admiration on an absolutely superb build. (you must have microscopic eyes and tweezers for fingers!

)
Re her boats, the info that I have states she had 9 meter oared cutters - 15 meters is huge for a ship's boat.
Really good drawings of these can be found in Conway's Anatomy of a Ship - The Heavy Cruiser Takao. I would think that your local library will have a copy of this book or can get one for you.
Very best regards
Justin

**kubeksus** · #3 03-04-2014, 05:27 AM

I have everything you need but I will have to look for it in my "collection"

I will do it in the evening. In the meantime, write me your e-mail on private message so I could send it to you.

Regards from Poland,
Kuba

**Hiob** · #4 03-09-2014, 04:50 PM

Hi, thank you Kuba, but I now have everything I needed. Case closed

I got the drawings from Tomasz Studziński.