What you see here is the second deck I made, I couldn't even measure up the first one correctly. It is very important to get the deck square and level so that the supports for the crank all line up properly. Did Martian follow this very sensible advice? Of course he didn't! he struggled on for a further five hours trying to get the deck right. At this point the wise modeller would have accepted that he was just not on form and walked away from the bench. The bulkheads for the fore and aft ballast tanks went in after a bit of a struggle and marking out and drilling the hole to accept the propeller shaft was a real pain. It was just one of those days when nothing would go right. Martian the Apprehensive Edited Maby Martianĭid I say that I could well crash and burn with this build? I did? Well, thatt very nearly happened yesterday. Mystic Martian now sees a lot of white styrene marching inexorably in the direction of this build. There, the die is now cast and there is no going back. Next I screwed up all of my courage, took a deep breath and cut three large openings in the hull. I shall do some more sleuthing on that one as it was about six years ago that I last researched the vessel and new information is sure to have come to light during her restoration. I did these a tad oversized as I have a cunning plan to add a bit of bling to the finished model which will be either black or a mid to dark grey depending on what source you consult. I began by drilling out all of the port holes in the hull. This is a copy of a well known painting and I hope, using some of ICM's 1/35 Confederate figures to display the model in a similar style. I did an in box review of the kit shortly after I received it and it can be found here: I use the word "we" here not as in the Martian "we" but as in us as I am a bit nervous about this one and feel I am going to need support to get me through the build. I am very aware that I am stepping well outside my comfort zone here and may very well crash and burn but if we can carry it off, we may well end up with quite an attractive model. Her hand cranked propulsion system should prove a good test of Albion Alloys Connecto system of joining tubing together and the nature of their slide fit tubing will be helpful for such things as bushes. Pulling the kit out, the thought came into my head, "why not combine building the kit with something else you have always intended to do ?)(If that's not an opening for I don't know what is!) I have always wanted to try a cut away build of something and I have quite a lot of information on the Hunley. I had been gifted this kit by Mikro-Mir when it first came out and had always intended to try and do something a bit special with it. I therefore get a batch of models ready for painting to avoid the hassle of having to keep changing the room around all the time.Īnyhow, in order to stop the Devil making work for idle tentacles I had a rummage around in my ready use kit stash (Oh yes I have more than one stash.) and came across the Mikro-Mir 1/35 kit of the CSS Hunley submarine. For those who don't know, my room is only six feet x five feet and it has to be set up for building or set up for painting, not both. Having got my Mercury build ready for paint earlier today, with the Delfin build at a similar stage and the Holland build coming on apace, I was wondering what else I could be doing before I set my room up for a painting session. Unassembled Kit, glue and, paint not included.Now, you may be forgiven for thinking that the Martian has lost the last of whatever he ever had of the plot and come up with a plan so cunning that Baldrick would be jealous of it, but bear with me, there is a kind of method in my madness. This model is a cinch for novices to the world of building resin kits and will provide a fun, accurate, and quick weekend project for the more advanced builder. We included the dock that the Hunley sits on in the famous painting, and we created an entirely new set of well-illustrated fully explained instructions covering the building process.
There are also 2 options for adding the Torpedo Spar that are much more up to date and more technically accurate than before. We also added the option of extra hatch lid castings to portray the model with either open or closed hatches. First, we added figures of the guards seen in the C.W. The new kit features several options and add-ons that were not available before. Now, it has been made even better and more technically accurate. This kit has been, and remains, the most accurate model of the Hunley anywhere in the world. Cottage Industry Models 1/72nd scale Hunley kit has been completely re-mastered and updated to reflect the most recent information about the submarine as taken from direct observation and measurements from the real artifacts.
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