x craft sub

[Andy HustlerParticipant @andyhustler32076]

just heard Italeria are brining out an X Craft midget sub in 1/35 scale ,this looks to be a great kit and cant wait to see it .

andy

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[Andy HustlerParticipant @andyhustler32076]

[Colin BishopModerator @colinbishop34627]

There are some photos of X24 in the Submarine Museum at Gosport featured in the Model Boats Special issue 2013.

Colin

[ashley needhamParticipant @ashleyneedham69188]

Gosh Colin, thats very handy, eh !!

How big would that be then? a truly novel boat to motorise, if a bity tricky with the access but I have an idea about that.

Ashley

[Andy HustlerParticipant @andyhustler32076]

c'mon ashley spill the beans dont hold us in suspence pls share your knowledge , my friend has orderd some sort of semi kit from an on line shop in southampton and will keep you posted when i know more about it .

Andy

[ashley needhamParticipant @ashleyneedham69188]

Andy. I would cheat of course (purists stop reading now please) and would take a leaf out of a crocodile I know (so as to speak).

I hate big hatch lines on things, and so I might consider making the sub as a hull, and a seperate box that slips inside the hull from the underneath, for the gear. Andy`s croc uses a little "brick" boat under the head, and he waterproofs it by the simple expedient of taping the top cover on with waterproof sellotape. How easy is that?

To expand a bit, the box could be clear acrylic, the radio antenna can be a wire out the top, perhaps with a solid wire on top to slide up into a periscope (or whatever), the motor could even be inside the box and mate up to the fixed-in- position propshaft via a ball joint. External outputs for control surfaces could be by wires via rubber bellows and quick keeper clips or something.

None of this would be seen, the bottom of the box could curve with the hull..obviously dynamic diving would be relatively easy..diving by pumped ballast tank would be tricky..but there again if you made a nice largish sub, the box idea might be EASIER..all the mechanics easy to get at and fully visible..nothing built in. I believe I may have seen slide in acrylic cylinders with all the stuff in for Boomers and so on?

See? nothing is tooo difficult !

Ashley

[Andy HustlerParticipant @andyhustler32076]

As always i bow to your greater knowledge

[ashley needhamParticipant @ashleyneedham69188]

Not superior knowledge, just imagination! Ashley

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