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 Post subject: USS Cavalla SS-244
PostPosted: Tue Dec 13, 2022 11:57 am 
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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.

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 Post subject: Re: USS Cavalla SS-244
PostPosted: Tue Dec 13, 2022 1:33 pm 
Nice.


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 Post subject: Re: USS Cavalla SS-244
PostPosted: Tue Dec 13, 2022 5:43 pm 
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Nice looking sub. Well done.

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