Butchered XXI U2540 submarine (cutaway view) kit.

[Peter54]

This kit is yet to be completed, but at the moment I have another one to focus on. What I seem to do is work on a model until it either gets to me or I come across a stumbling block. That is when I need a distraction for awhile. This kit was one of my distractions. So, I am fairly sure I will bet back into it again and eventually get it completed.

This is my first, and probably my last, plastic model kit. Mainly because I don't like being restricted as kits tend to be.



When I started this kit, it did not take me long to maverick it. So this is what I have done to it so far...







It was here, the interior, where I started doctoring things.


to be continued...

 

[Peter54]

Painting how they actually looked.



to be continued...

 

[Peter54]

Working out how to paint this.

to be continued...

 

[Peter54]

Experimenting in situ.


Making extra torpedo to show underfloor storage.


Adding extra bits.





to be continued...

 

[Peter54]

Now for the living quarters. Adding railings to the bunkers.
The XXI actually had carpet.


Added an illusive passageway between starboard and port compartments.
The holes are for LED lighting the passageway.




Painting the beds to look like beds.

to be continued...

 

[Peter54]

Fixing up the furniture. Painting the boxxes to look like tables.





Scratch building a radio room.





to be continued...

 

[Peter54]

I decided to make a cutaway section of the battery room.


Bought some unpainted figurines to paint and add to the model.




The battery room will depict a dangerous scene of chlorine gas poisoning from damaged batteries. The gas is light green in colour..



to be continued...

 

[urumomo]

Carpet ?

 

[Peter54]

Experimenting in creating a crewman with a torch. He will be sent down to check on the electrician in the battery room.


Watchout! Here comes the Captain.




Painting the battery room and cross-section.



to be continued...

 

[Peter54]

Well, the startled crewman found the electrician overtaken by chlorine gas.





Replacing the cannons with optical fibre to show gun flashes.



Cannot remember what actually happened with the LEDs, it's been a while since this happened. I am sure to get it going again once I return to complete this model.
To be continued sometime down the track.

 

[urumomo]

So damaged batteries exposed to a seawater ingress creating chlorine gas and a sailor with a non-explosion proof torch entering a hydrogen rich environment only to also be killed by chlorine . ... and killing everyone beyond the watertight hatch .
Smoke em if you got em .
Count Me Out !

I'm surprised you didn't build any torpedo handing gear --- or is that coming ?

 

[Peter54]

Carpet ?

Yes. I read it somewhere on some German website. Perhaps from a German naval museum write up about them.

 

[urumomo]

I figured it would be a synthetic rubber .
I assume it's for acoustic dampening . Can't imagine keeping it clean .

We always thought it was funny that we were to shut down our 4 steam driven fire pumps upon sub detection -- cuz yeah , once those pumps are off , that 100 thousand ton ship swinging those four 66 thousand pound screws just disappears from passive sonar . It becomes a stealth ship . You'll never find us !!

 

[Peter54]

So damaged batteries exposed to a seawater ingress creating chlorine gas and a sailor with a non-explosion proof torch entering a hydrogen rich environment only to also be killed by chlorine . ... and killing everyone beyond the watertight hatch .
Smoke em if you got em .
Count Me Out !

I'm surprised you didn't build any torpedo handing gear --- or is that coming ?

Battery torch sparking? I am not biting.

 

[urumomo]

LOL , don't overthink it , everyone is already dead anyway .

 

[blakeh1]

Very cool!

 

[Docbritofmf]

So damaged batteries exposed to a seawater ingress creating chlorine gas and a sailor with a non-explosion proof torch entering a hydrogen rich environment only to also be killed by chlorine . ... and killing everyone beyond the watertight hatch .
Smoke em if you got em .
Count Me Out !

I'm surprised you didn't build any torpedo handing gear --- or is that coming ?

So many ways to die on a sub, chlorine gas, implosion, invisible high pressure water or air that can cut a man in half ... It ain't for the faint of heart that's for sure