A few years ago, I toured the
USS Cavalla (SS-244), a Gato-class submarine set up as a
museum ship in Galveston, TX, so I decided to build a model of it. AFV offers different 1:350 scale kits of Gato-class submarines built in 1941, 1942, and 1943, so I chose the 1943 version, that being the year
USS Cavalla was built. A little research showed me, however, that
USS Cavalla was extensively modified in the 1950s, with a new sail fitted, two of the forward torpedo tubes removed , and a bulbous nose fitted to the bow to house new sonar gear. I decided that these modifications were beyond my scratch-building abilities at such a small scale, so I built
USS Cavalla as she was during WWII.
A few years ago, I toured the [i]USS Cavalla[/i] (SS-244), a Gato-class submarine set up as a [url=https://galvestonnavalmuseum.com/history]museum ship[/url] in Galveston, TX, so I decided to build a model of it. AFV offers different 1:350 scale kits of Gato-class submarines built in 1941, 1942, and 1943, so I chose the 1943 version, that being the year [i]USS Cavalla[/i] was built. A little research showed me, however, that [i]USS Cavalla[/i] was extensively modified in the 1950s, with a new sail fitted, two of the forward torpedo tubes removed , and a bulbous nose fitted to the bow to house new sonar gear. I decided that these modifications were beyond my scratch-building abilities at such a small scale, so I built [i]USS Cavalla[/i] as she was during WWII.
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