Revell U-Boot Class 212 A, the Italian version!!

[arilo76]

Hello Everybody

Here Was my entry for the SIG If it floats, I am building the Revell Class 212 the Italian Navy version.
The Italian version of Class 212 is call Torado Class, the sub has a Diesel engine and Air-independent propulsion (AIP).
When the AIP engine is running it a slow cruising but...the system is vibration free and very quite so... virtually undetectable

Some General characteristics (Source from Wikipedia)

Displacement:
1,450 tonnes surfaced, 1,830 tonnes submerged
Length: 56 m (183.7 ft), 57.2 m (187.66 ft) (2nd batch)
Beam: 7 m (22.96 ft)
Draft: 6 m (19.68 ft)

Propulsion:
1 MTU 16V 396 diesel-engine
9 HDW/Siemens PEM fuel cells, 30–40 kW each (U31)
2 HDW/Siemens PEM fuel cells 120 kW (U32, U33, U34)
1 Siemens Permasyn electric motor 1700 kW, driving a single seven-bladed skewback propeller
Speed: 20 knots (37 km/h) submerged, 12 knots surfaced
Depth: over 700 m (2,296 ft)

Range:
8,000 nautical miles (14,800 km, or 9,196 miles) at 8 knots (15 km/h)
Endurance: 3 weeks without snorkeling, 12 weeks overall

Armament:
6 x 533 mm torpedo tubes (in 2 forward-pointing asymmetric groups of left 4 + right 2 ) with 13 torpedoes or 24 tube mines
IDAS missiles
24 external naval mines (optional)

Countermeasures:
Torpedo defence system Tau, 4 launchers, 40 jammers/decoys

Sensors:
STN Atlas DBQS40 sonar suite:
TAS-3 passive low-frequency towed array sonar (deployed from sail)
FAS-3 passive low-, and medium-frequency hull-mounted flank array sonar
MOA 3070 mine detection sonar

Crew complement:
23–27 (incl. 5 officers)

Heres nice cutout of the boat.


Here are some images of Italian version

[Lysus]

I'm in, awesome boat.

[arilo76]

I'm in, awesome boat.

Thanks Mate, i should get the first batch of photos of the build by tomorrow, so fare the two half were a pain in the .
Also i forgot i will have also the out of the box video hopefully also for tomorrow.

[arilo76]

Finally some photos













This was already broken from the box, so i decided rather to glue it back to replace it with a hypodermic needle

[Skullfish]

Nice 1, im definately in.
Jase

[arilo76]

Nice 1, im definately in.
Jase

Thanks mate

[arilo76]

[arilo76]

Finally the spare parts arrived and i can start to finish this guy.
here follows some progress:

Deacals on



Few bits starting to get glue on the Sub












Ultimate Light Dirt On


testing pastels on the gloss surface testing different colours, when happy i will removed apply the matt finish and put the pastel back

[arilo76]

Matt done, now finishing by giving it a green shadow, For what ever reason on the the above photos of the real thing the grey has a green effect, So used pasted to add the effect.




Very happy with the effect I would like to say that I am nearly done.

[arilo76]

and here is the Final Model

Enjoy



















THANKS