X craft plans/drawings

david f wrote:A very interesting project and it would be good to help "our 1:1" fellow enthusiasts!

Has your son been in touch with the RNSM, for starters?

I believe its part of his plan to contact them but I tend to think that he wont get much done this side of xmas so I thought that I would make a start, what are dads for eh?! lol. thanks for you guys prompt response. :o)

Richard(Admin) wrote:Give me a couple of days chaps, and I'll trawl through my ever growing pile of CD's and find the X craft plans, etc.

Brilliant, your a star! :o)

If you are contacting the RNSM perhaps you could gently remind them that they have a number of fine submarine models (some from our members ) in their archive store.

It may be nice if they saw the light of day again - on loan etc. perhaps?

Just a thought.

If you want a permanent home for these plans, send them to me and I'll post them here, as long as they are copyright free.


You can download them here


NB. Any plans that belong to John Lambert are copyright and should not be swapped around, emailed to friends or subject to any 'horse trading'. John earns a living from these.

david f wrote:If you are contacting the RNSM perhaps you could gently remind them that they have a number of fine submarine models (some from our members ) in their archive store.

It may be nice if they saw the light of day again - on loan etc. perhaps?

Just a thought.

Thats not a bad idea , I will give him a bell and suggest it. Cheers Craig.

Hi Richard, like many I have just joined, coming across the site when researching X-craft. I would love drawings of X-craft, as I would like to make a model of X24 for our club display at Scale Modelworld 2012.
Thanks , Dave

Hi Richard, that is just fine, and very quick! I intend to build at 1/48th, should come out at just over 1ft long.
Thanks, Dave

At least it's not in 1/72 like the Pavla kit. My son gave up on that, and his eyesight is better than mine!
Dave

cann i have a copy of this please (thinking about my next project)

I was wondering if I could get a copy of these plans as well. Getting ready for my next project, and this may be it....

otherdave

I've just found this forum and i would love a copy of these plans as i would love to make a radio controlled model of an Xcraft.

Hello Richard.
Could i ask you to email me the x craft plans in your msg,
Email url is.
jwadsworth1000@live.co.uk.
Many thanks for your time.

John..W.

New to modelling and Forum could i pease get a copy of those plans ?

Bruce

Has anyone seen the Italeri Xcraft submarine model?
I am wondering what size WTC tube can fit inside the hull?
I'm thinking a 1" tube?
Is there a larger scale fiberglass model?
It would be great to find a 1/12th scale version or larger.

Could I have a new copy of the plans/drawings please, have received before but seem to have lost them. In particular there was 5 A4 sheets of very detailed deck plan with one section at the W&D compartment, do you have more from the same source.

As I have been unhappy with the shape of the stern of the MBD model I am in the process of moulding a new set with sections as shown in Paul Kemp's drawing. These mouldings could be made available.

Can anybody confirm that the under vertical and the horizontal fins are the same outline and contour.

Hello Richard,

     I just log in recently from a long absence and I was wondering if you can please send me the drawing and plans of the WW2 British X craft. My email is eparras@gmail.com.

Kind regards,

Manny

Hi Manny,

Just to help you with your search.

Richard doesn't post here much now.  He now hangs out at Andy L's "Dive-In" Facebook site, if you need to contact him.

David

I'm currently working on a static model of the X-Craft and I'm looking for any references to the early models. Can anyone help me with drawings or photos with decent details on these elusive subs? Much appreciated if so.

Please, anybody .... any drawings or photos of X-Craft?

Hi Harpo,

I have just been doing a search on the Forum on your behalf. However there seem to be more promises of X craft plans than actual plans!

To help give you some pointers (and I see that you live in the US.):

- Original X craft are on display at both the RN Submarine Museum, Gosport and the Imperial War Museum at Duxford. This might not seem to be very helpful information when you live in the US but if you go on to their websites you will see photos/ walk rounds etc and they can be contacted for photo archives etc.

- The Dock Museum at Barrow in Furness http://www.dockmuseum.org.uk/ have the Vickers Photo Archive. (Most of them were built at Vickers, Barrow in Furness. In fact one of the members of my model boat club (Barrow) worked on one of the later X craft.)

- John Lambert did do a plan:

X51 Class Midget Submarines
Model Boat Plan: MAR2096

But following his death last year I don't know about availability. His daughters are cataloguing his plans at the moment. (See the thread on this Forum and let us know if you find anything more.)

- There is some info in my favourite "fall-back" book. "Observer's directory of RN Submarines 1901-1982" by M P Cocker publ by Frederick Warne (1982) Some nice photos, specifications and some (very small!) drawings. Let me know if you are having problems finding a copy.

- The photo archive on our new website shows some good models:

http://associationofmodelsubmariners.com/pages/british.html

Please let us know on here how you get on and what you find. There does seem to be a shortage of information but there are some excellent models out there (Nigel Edmonds and Alan Poole come to mind immediately) so there must be plenty of information.

David

not sure how you feel about making your own plans, but merit makes a 1/35 plastic model kit of the x-craft.

you could purchase one of those, and draw your own plans, at what ever scale you choose, from that.

http://freetimehobbies.com/1-35-merit-international-hms-x-craft-submarine-british-sub-model-kit/

Thanks to both of you; the website has some great RC Subs! Yes, that is precisely the kit I'm building and enhancing. Their propeller is the saddest excuse I've ever seen and the kit is full of discrepancies, but it scales out nicely. Thanks for the advice!