Mounted to base…
And a little bit of work on the tower…
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[:S]…the sub looks different in the pics…in one pic it has a red hull and in some of the others it doesn’t…???
The all gray one is the midget that the the other (red hull) is "mama’ to. You can see it on the big hull, just aft of the fairwater, in the last pic.
I was looking at getting this kit or the I-58. I’m looking forward to seeing the progress on this build.
Oh…so the two are different scales?
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Yes, the big one is 1/350, the other is 1:350.
[:P]…and I thought AFV Club only sold tank kits!!!
Trivia:
I-27 was one of the boats which launched one of three midget subs which attacked Sydney Harbour in 1942.
M-27 (the midget sub) became entangled in anti-submarine nets just inside the harbour and was destroyed by her crew using demolition charges.
M-24 (carried by I-24) launched two torpedos, one of which sank HMAS Kuttabul, a harbour ferry acquired by the Royal Australian Navy for use as a depot ship.
M-24 was the only one of the three to exit the harbour, but it was not until 2006 that she was finally located on the sea bed off Sydney’s northern beaches.
http://www.navy.gov.au/history/feature-histories/japanese-midget-submarine-attack-sydney-harbour
Wait…so these actually saw combat and weren’t “paper projects”?
Yes, they launched 5 at Pearl Harbor, USS Ward sank one with a 5" through the conning tower off the entrance, USS Monahan rammed one in the harbor. Both were also depth charged. One washed up on the beach and the survivor was the first Japanese POW (that one is now on display at the Pacific War Museum in Fredricksberg, TX). I think they have now accunted for all 5. One was found with both torpedos expended, and there is some controversy over a captured Japanese photo taken from the air that shows a couple of extra torpedo tracks over drop splashes from Kates, and possible conning tower and “roostertails” from the prop as they were launched. So it is possible that one did get in and fire and get back out.
Later in the war they also had manned “kamakazi” torps.
The US was about the only country that did not have midgets of one sort or another during the war.
Oh, I thought someone said they attacked Australia…???
Yes, 31 May/1 June '42, as per the article and pics in the link above. Two sunk in harbor and one outside was found a few years ago.
I just saw a docu’s on that last week. I’ve seen the one about Pearl a couple time…I still giggle hearing “Peg Bundy” as the narrator!
hmmmmm…it doesn’t look big enough to carry torpedoes…
Carried two, in an over/under configuration in front of the conning tower. If you look close at thebow and the PE you can just see the tips of the warheads.
Was not much more than torpedos, two sailors, and the engine, so they were small.
They were not meant for independant operation, but from a mother ship of some sort.
Even before the Kamikaze forces were raised up, there was a pretty much understodd situation in which these operated in a mostly one-way attack mode.
Side note–in the new Nicholas Cage version of the sining of the USS Indianapolis, the movie producers, in classic Nick Cage historical accuracy form, introduced Kaiten, the specifically one-way versions of these midget subs.
Been a little while on this one…broke it back out today…
Main assembly finished up, as well as some paint…still got all the fiddly bits yet to do.
Mounted on the plaque, so I don’t have to handle the model itself.
Does anybody know of a good, clear diagram for the rigging/antennas? The only thing I’ve found any kind of useful, was another build…that only gets me so far though.
[:$]…box-art? Or the one you did w the baby torpedoes on it…