scratch biulding a 1/48 scale sub

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Hi all! I am very excited to be on this forum.this is my first time being in and writing in 1.lol.

me and my son wish to make a 1/48th scale sub,but we cant find any sites with measurements.lots of pics and drawings but no measurements.if anyone can help that would go a long ways.

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Have you tried looking up museums? They will usually post basic measurments of any ships they have, and there are a ton of subs that are museums now.

Also see if there is a kit for the sub you want to build. Even if you don’t use the kit, you can use its dimensions.

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they make subs in 1/48?

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hi do they make subs 1/48th scale?

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Hi Slip,

it’s doubtful that anyone makes a sub in 1/48, I know the 1/72 subs that Revell put out recently are about a yard long.

I think they mean to get a sub in say 1/7o0 or so scale, something small and relatively inexpensive, then use that to scale up to 1/48 by measuring the dimensions.

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Indeed finding good documentation and drawings are a challenge in scratchbuilding, but you are lucky in wanting to do a ship project. There are more ship drawing sets available than the scale drawings of all other modeling genre.

Never looked specifically for subs, but the two largest commercial sources of scale ship drawings are Taubman’s Plans, and the Dromedary. Both are now owned by Loyalhanna Dockyard, but the drawing catalogs have seperate web sites. Do a Google search on each drawing brand.

Bluejacket also has some ship plans, but a very small number and I do not remember seeing a sub in their line.

There are also government agencies and museums that sell drawings, but I would start with Taubman and Dromedary.

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This company produces submarine hulls in 1/48 scale :

Scale Shipyard Submarine Hulls

scaleshipyard.com (just in case the link doesn’t work)

Maybe they can help with scale drawings.

Stay thirsty my freind,

EW

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try here

http://www.scaleshipyard.com/ they have plans and hulls and fittings this is an expensive hobby to be prepared to reach deep in the wallet

I have build several of the hull kits from various makers when you run into trouble give me a yell I would be happy to help

if you wish to build from scratch this is the place to go I have one of their books on gato class boats very extensive incuding engineers drawings

http://www.floatingdrydock.com/

good luck