Similar size to my H Class 1936 Destroyer HMS Hotspur Jump.
She's 135cm LOA.
I used two 6V 7Ah SLA batteries as 'useful ballast'.
She was also stuffed with doohickeys making noises, smoke, lights and moving gun turrets and radar.
Watching your build with interest.
Cheers, Doug😎
PS The sub is 107cm LOA. 1/72nd scale Type 1A U25, also from 1936.

Thanks for the reply Jumpugly, sorry but I no longer received notification emails. Yes, wow! It's a very long, very interesting ship model.

Flipped over to get the lower hull construction underway. Despite the wonderfully pre-carved sections, there will be a ton of carving, sanding, and shaping to be done. Will have to get out extra dust masks and take it outside for that! Oh Brother!
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Hi there! It's a monster at 55 inches (139.7cm). Going to take a ton of ballast!
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Beautiful model, Jumpugly, I love it, but how long is it?

A decent first day. For an old Sterling kit the die “crushing” was not too bad, but required the usual sit-down at the cutting board for a few hours with a pile of sharp razor blades to get everything trimmed and notched properly. It’s often annoying and laborious, but worth the effort with these old kits…especially the Sterlings.

However, I did make one mistake by installing the stringers before the shears not fully realizing that the shears were more important to aligning the ribs than the stringers were. I must admit that in decades past this sort of mistake would have floored me, but nowadays I try to take a step back and calmly undo the damage and raid my scrap wood box for repair stock. I save everything.
More to follow…
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Get after it Jump!! Looking forward to your build.