| This kit requires a lot of extra parts to complete. Besides the hull kit, you will need 4 SPPS drives, the fitting set, 4 drive motors, two water pumps, a bunch of micro motors and gear boxes and on and on. The instructions are obviously a direct translation from German to English and are somewhat hard to read and understand. They are not as good as other large scale boats like the Robbe Berlin. Hopefully I will be able to figure it out! |  |
| The first thing to build is a stand. The wood is not included but a template is making it an easy task. |  |
| Several holes needs to cut into the hull. Most of them are scribed but the scribing is extremely light. I had a very hard time seeing some of them, I think it would have been easier to see a flea on the moon. This is the stern of the ship, it has two drives. Interestingly, these are not the main drives, the front ones are. |  |
| The rear drives needs a 16mm hole. I used a small drill bit to drill several holes to get close to the right size... |  |
| ...then I cleaned the hole up with a dremel sanding drum. The drum is just slightly smaller then 16 mm so it worked very well. |  |
| The front drives are mounted a little different and require a larger hole. There are scribe marks where the holes should go but they are almost invisible. |  |
| The ship features a moon pool for diver support. This one is well scribed |  |
| I tried a number of different methods to make this cut but but ended up drilling a bunch of small holes and sanding it smooth. |  |
| Several small ovals are cut into the bow, there are not marks as to where they go but the blue prints do show them. |  |
| Finally all of the holes are cut and the hull is now ready for the drive installation. |  |
