These are to be found on the etched fret. It is clear from examination of some of the finer injection parts of the kit that they will best be replaced with brass rod and tubing, especially if the completed model is to travel to shows.Īlso best replaced are the propeller and the propeller guard. ![]() The hatches for the conning towers are to be found on the clear sprue and will obviously need their deadlights masking off before finishing takes place. Either way, the grey cells are already trying to work out whether a scratch built interior is a goer! Deadlights in the top of the hull and in the twin conning towers will need to be drilled out and can either be filled using the parts provided on the clear sprue or filled with Clear Cote or some such product. Panel line and rivet detail has also been continued on the interior of the hull, leading your scribe to wonder if Mikromir have it in mind to do a "clear" version of the kit, as they did with their model of the Delfin. Whilst quite correct for the numerous replicas of the Hunley that exist, archaeological evidence has shown the submarine to have been flush riveted, and strictly speaking they should be removed to be totally accurate. Panel lines are fine and are covered with large rivets. The quality of the mouldings is of reasonable limited run standard and well up to Mikromir's usual standards. Instructions consist of a double sided sheet of A4 paper showing a seven stage exploded assembly sequence. These parts are complemented by eighteen clear parts and an etched fret of brass. The kit itself consists of twenty eight, mid grey injection moulded parts, dominated by the two hull halves. Mikromir's kit in 1/35 scale is, I believe the first time a pioneer submarine has been kitted in injection moulded form (I stand to be corrected on this though) and, as such, is to be applauded as a very brave move on the part of the company. The Hunley's crew all perished.įollowing numerous attempts at locating the wreck of the submarine, she was eventually located by members of the author Clive Cussler's NUMA team in 1995 and was salvaged in 2000. Quite possibly this upset the submarine's stability and the open topped ballast tanks overflowed into the crew compartment once more. Although the reasons are unclear, recent evidence points to the fact that the torpedo did not detach from it's spar. ![]() Sadly, however, the Hunley did not survive the encounter. Exploding the torpedo, the Hunley went down in history as the first submarine to sink an enemy vessel. On the night of 17th February 1864 the Hunley succeeded in ramming it's spar torpedo into the 1240 ton sloop, the USS Housatonic, anchored off Charleston, South Carolina. Powered by a hand cranked propeller, and manned by a crew of nine, the Hunley had already killed two of it's crews in training accidents, believed to be largely due to the craft's ballast tanks being open to the crew compartment, before a third crew was formed by a Lieutenant Dixon of the Confederate army. Hunley submarine from Sergey at Mikromir.īriefly, the Hunley was an early submarine operated by the Confederacy during the American Civil War. Inside was a sample of the forthcoming C.S.S. Recently a large and mysterious package dropped on my doorstep, covered in Ukrainian stamps.
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