[WWI] Added:A Submarine model at the AWM

[Aidrian Bridgeman-Sutton]

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~From: wwi-bounces at wwi-models.org [mailto:wwi-bounces at wwi-models.org] On
~Behalf Of Diego Fernetti
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~>   Ross Moorhouse sent in a photo of a
~> Submarine model at the AWM,
~> See http://www.wwi-models.org/Photos/Museums/Canberra/index.html
~
~What a nice model! Looks like some parts are real brass. Would be any
~drawings of this thingie (what's a submarine called? boat? ship? vessel?)
~available?


Yes they should be. Try the National Maritime Museum www.nmm.ac.uk at
Greenwich who will have Admiralty as fitted drawings of the original boats.
They may not have AE-1 specifically as the boat was built for Australia, but
they will have drawings of other E's. Copies of these drawings tend to be
expensive, but are hard to beat as an original source, though you do need
some skill to interpret them correctly as in service changes are drawn over
the top of the original drawing and have to be deciphered. 

The model itself looks to be a typical builder's model used for presentation
purposes. These were usually produced in an in-house model shop and were
usually 1/48 scale as that was the normal scale for ship drawings at the
time - even for dreadnoughts (and that makes for some really big and really
expensive prints as well some really  big and really expensive models).  The
hull would be carved bread and butter fashion and the various fittings would
fabricated or cast from masters produced in the shop. The bright brass or
nickel plating and perfect glossy paint was part of the expected style for
these models - even trawlers would get bright nickel-plated winches.

Aidrian   
Who really needs to get to work on that K-boat he started planning ten years
ago. 

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