Russian torpedo boat KIT1899 or teaching modelbuilding

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Hello dear friends,

as I am working in a social club I was asked to teach modelbuilding - so I decides to look for a small boat in intersting colours an found the German build and Russian used

Кит​

KIT, what means Whale.

She and her three Sisters where 63,5ms long I do use a Dom Burmagy kit enlarged not to 1:100 and did it by 312% up to 1/64.



The picture shows her in the Baltica Fleet sheme and the pictures in the Pacific White:


The boat was Schichau Elbing built in East Prussian and a nimble and fast craft:

The engineroom was placed between the water tube boilers (I do have to find a drawings of the engine in particular).


Here KIT and her sister side by side



The very big funnels do have them a very interesting shape.




The lines are quite fine and info want to offer KIT as a group project in the social club.

 

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Thanks you very much!

 

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Armament barreled:
1x 75mm Carnet gun
5x 47mm Hotchkiss QF* gun




47mm:




*quick firing

 

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Today I went to my trusted Copyshop and decided to enlarged the cardboard kit by 312% - from 1:200 Up to 1/64. So the model is enlarged from one foot up to a bit more than a yard - or for the metric guys from 317,5mms up to 992mms in length over all.

So after months of illness of my "luxed" ellbow and a deep depression I do start tomorrow with KIT and I am füll of energy.



The Schichau boats were slimmer than the French ones only 6m breadth to a length of 64,5m giving a ratio of 10,58 - so being very fast.
I do think about a waterline model to avoid the horror of scatch building a pair of propellers.



The coat unwindings of the funnels do come quite handy - but I do doubt the funnels is only a simple tin manteled hole. I have to look into Plans of German Schichau torpedo boats that were the prototyp of the KIT-quartett.

Thats all for today from.the BerlinCardYard.

 

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Hello dear friends,
the enlargement was made in diagonal printed parts and so there was a bit of patchwork to do:



Quite a long Lady, very slim but by prolonging the lines it was possible to get a good fit:


Here the completly glued Center-Board some yard long:



So tomorrow I am going to deal with the centerboard - it has to be 3mm of thickness. I will be in a social wood workshop for disabled persons tomorrow.

 

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Initially, the destroyer Kit had only two 5-meter 11-person Francis lifeboats, 4 cork rings and 4 life jackets . Upon arrival in Russia, the German ships were equipped with a more capacious whaleboat instead of Francis lifeboats , and also three collapsible canvas Burton lifeboats were added.

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That is very helpfull, thanks you very much..
Where to find the drawings for exspecially these type 75mm Carnet and 47mm QF Hotchkiss gun?

 

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The KIT-Class Quartett based on the German coastal torpedoboats S(chichau)-90 to S-101.

Here the original yard model NMMn° SLR1295

from 1899 built by Ferdinand Gottlob (not on display)

length and breadth of the model is 1264×134mm without stand.

Here a later status of the boat with a propper wheel House and big search light:


Here S-90 again:


I will try to find Fürther pictures that may BE helpfull.

 

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So die to this picture my question is certainly



is this the original shade of "Pacific White"? A very light light-blue?
Because this is a detail of FORELL 1900 in France:

The frame of the bulleye is lighter than the surrounding hull. It is nearly the very same difference in shades between the light blue and the white underground in the picture above.

Very very interesting!

 

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Where to find the drawings for exspecially these type 75mm Carnet

copies of archival drawings

 

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is this the original shade of "Pacific White"? A very light light-blue?

Don't pay attention. This is a mistaken coloring from a Tallin museum. The real color was light gray, in Russian it was called "shary". It all depends on what color of the ship you chose. If light gray, then the gun will be light gray. If you chose a dark color, then it will be like in the photo of the torpedo tube from my post 2.
Here is another example of the original color from the collection of the Central Naval Museum (St. Petersburg)

I took a photo myself, I vouch for the shade.

 

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Really great detailed information on these old guns. Thanks for posting.
Jim

 

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Baseboard from playwood is ready for the build:



Here the position on the diorama base:


So the baseboard is also the base of the diorama. That's all for today.