[WWI] K-boat was RE: Added:A Submarine model at the AWM

[Aidrian Bridgeman-Sutton]

Drawings for some of the K-boats are available from John Lambert
http://www.lambert-plans.com/ - I think these plans have the "swan" bow
which was added to improve buoyancy forward, but I'm sticking with the
original design  - they were much better looking with the low bow IMO.

I once thought of putting a real steam plant in a working model until
someone pointed out that if the boat were to leak a combination of cold
water and hot boiler could simulate the effects of a small scale depth
charge really well. Not an unreasonable effect given the class's propensity
for mishaps, but rather a waste of modelling effort unless you're making
models for movies

Aidrian

~-----Original Message-----
~From: wwi-bounces at wwi-models.org [mailto:wwi-bounces at wwi-models.org] On
~
~> Who really needs to get to work on that K-boat he started planning ten
~> years
~> ago.
~
~Hey, so you have the same obsession i have! I have read a little book about
~them and thought that they were so insanely designed that they may deserve
~to be modelled! Now, I'm still undecided if their hull looks better with or
~without the modifications in the prow.
~D.


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