[WIP] Estonian submarine Lembit
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In 1934 Estonian coverment ordered 2 Kalev class submarines from Vickers-Armstrongs Limited. The two brothers were named Kalev and Lembit. They were both launched in 1936 and entered service in 1937.
In 1940 Soviets occupied Estonia and captured both submarines. One of the brothers called Kalev was lost the same year. It is tought that it hit one of many naval mines found in Baltic Sea. Hes brother Lembit was lucky enough to survive the WWII and was finally decommissioned in 1979. Lembit was nicknamed "Immortal submarine" and is worthy of its name even today as it has spent 75 years floating on water. No other submarine in the world has been afloat for such a long time.
In early 2011 Lembit was pulled out of water and now spends rest of its life in a dry Seaplane Harbour.I wanted to make a model of it for a long time but couldn't find any blueprints that I could use. But now I have found few + some very good pictures of it when it is out of water.
Anyways getting the basic hull shape correct has been real pain in the eye. But I think I can manage it even tho work has been slow past few days as I want everything to be perfect and detailed.
Here are few very early pictures of it:
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Looking good.
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Very fun project you have there
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This looks great! Good Project.
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Just wow!
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Here is a small update:
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Sry for not updating for some time.
Not much has changed since last update but the hull has given me many hours of work nevertheless. Luckily the most difficult part is done and now adding smaller details should take less time.
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@coremaster110 said:
Sry for not updating for some time.
Not much has changed since last update but the hull has given me many hours of work nevertheless. Luckily the most difficult part is done and now adding smaller details should take less time.Yes parts such as this always take the most time. The details will be a lot easier except the mast maybe. Make sure you save lots of copies of the hull before you start carving it out.
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@liam887 said:
Yes parts such as this always take the most time. The details will be a lot easier except the mast maybe. Make sure you save lots of copies of the hull before you start carving it out.
Yeah. In the past 6 years I have learned a lot.
Big mess (first save):
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I have been having problems with sketchup last few weeks. First Skype had some sort of conflict with my PC and sketchup suffered a lot from this. Now all of a sudden out of nowhere sketchup lags a lot when hardware acceleration is turned on. I'm not sure what is wrong.
I had latest sketchup 8 installed and worked fine but then one day started to lag with hardware acceleration. I reinstalled and still had same problem. Then I installed older version of sketchup 8 (google sketchup) and it worked fine and then 1 minute later I got smacked in the face and it started to lag again. Yet again turning off hardware acceleration seems to fix this but without hardware acceleration I can't work on my submarine because of even worse performance.
I doubt my GPU is dying and I didn't touch the drivers when the lag started. Also I'm sick of reinstalling windows after every 6 months or so... frustrating. -
Oh your curves and line work are beautiful... That hull is a work of art.
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@krisidious said:
Oh your curves and line work are beautiful... That hull is a work of art.
Thank you!
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