Wednesday, October 5, 2016

Greetings all,
After a short distraction fixing up my garage and preparing for winter I'm ready to start my Pearl Harbor build.  I'm putting together the Flyhawk Models 1/700 USS Ward and Japanese Ko-hyotek class two man submarine.

At this point I think I will put this in a case with both vessels on stands out of the water.  I'm thinking the Ward higher than the submarine.

Make no mistake this is a tiny build.  There are very few plastic parts and three frets of photo etch!  Also included are a few resin pieces.  Should be fun and I'm hoping to be creative with the base.

Here is what I'm working with...

The USS Ward is from Flyhawk and the Ko-hyotek submarine is a single part in a Tamiya I-16 &
I-58 kit which is actually quite nice itself!


The hull on the Ward is excellent.  It's a perfect fit.  The propeller shafts are a bit thick so I may modify those a bit.


Here's the instruction sheet and kit box.


And here's our Tamiya submarine.  I think we can modify these to give them a better look.  Anyone have any midget sub propellers in their parts box?


Should be a fun one and doable in the remaining time.

If you're still building send me some photos and I'll upload them into our blog.

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