Poti Class ASW Corvette

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11 September 2011 at 02:42 #31774
Neil Lowe
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I’ve come up across a very frustrating yet interesting problem with the true dimensions for the Soviet Poti class (NATO), Project 204 (RUSSIAN) ASW Corvettes. My chosen scales to work in being 1/72 & 1/144.

My own reference material plus a very exhaustive web search has resulted in several different sets of dimensions quoted for this class ie;

1) LOA – 58.64m, B – 8.13m, D – 3.05m;

2) LOA – 59.40m, B – 7.90m, D – 2.00m;

3) LOA – 58.30m, B – 8.20m, D – 3.09m;

4) LOA – 60.00m, B – 8.50m, D – 3.00m.

These are the most popular dimensions, the most quoted is set 2), there were some others but they were quite outlandish and not beleivable. But as you can see, the max difference is 1700mm between the quoted (set 3. & set 4.) dimensions!!!!

I have a set of 1970 plans for Poti (quoting the set 4. dimensions) in 1/100 but the elevation and plan view are different lengths (15mm approx difference!!) and the propeller “tunnells” and stern shape omitted and incorrectly portrayed.

I found a thread from “Model Warships.com” forum referring to Poti with two very nice pics of a (still wet!!) fished model from a Russian modeller but with no scale nor model dimension quoted.

Can anyone help me with my problem? Slowly driving me nuts!!

Regards all

Neil (FAAMAN)
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11 September 2011 at 02:42 #6731
Neil Lowe
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Dimensional Frustration
4 November 2013 at 20:27 #44819
Gary
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Hello Neil,

Are you still interested in this class of Russian Corvette? Regards Gary M
5 November 2013 at 04:36 #44824
Neil Lowe
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Yes I am Gary, just haven't any time to do anything about it since the post, still have the project on the back burner along with A LOT of others, still the same prob as originally posted though with Poti.

Regards all

Neil (FAAMAN)
5 November 2013 at 10:45 #44828
David Wooley
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hello Neil having cross checked all of the material on the Poti I have "2" on your list is the one set of figures that seems to be most quoted. Although Jane's 1974 edition is at odds with those figures but the differences are small . All agree with the standard displacement being around 500 tons . Hope this helps

Dave Wooley
7 November 2013 at 09:27 #44862
Neil Lowe
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Thankyou David, every little bit helps and I appreciate the input, I think I'm swaying to "2" dimensions for Poti, I'll now start to draw in CAD what I need and in a few months (maybe) I'll have something to actually build from.

Regards,

Neil Lowe

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7 November 2013 at 20:41 #44873
David Wooley
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Neil you are very welcome and all the best with your CAD program for the Poti .

Dave Wooley
9 November 2013 at 05:37 #44904
Neil Lowe
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I now have a way forward, the great info provided by Gary has crystalised my decision, thanks mate!!

The dimensions I'll be using for my Poti class builds are as per "2"; IE,

LOA – 59.40m, B – 7.90m, D – 2.0m.

My drawings will be done in AutoCad, Thanks again to all who've helped!!

Regards,

Neil

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