1:100 34-Foot Steam Torpedo Cutter is a kit of a small steam launch with torpedo armament from the brand Zebrano, in the generous 1:100 scale.
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The kit captures a small steam vessel with torpedo armament. Thanks to the 1:100 scale, such a small subject makes a model that fits in the palm of a hand and yet still leaves room for an honest rendering of the deck, the funnel and the armament. It will suitably complete a display case with larger surface ships of the same scale.
Steam cutters of this kind belonged to the equipment of the large warships of the end of the nineteenth and the beginning of the twentieth century. They served for transport between ship and shore, for patrol duty in harbors and on roadsteads, and in their armed form also for a torpedo attack at short range. They were in fact a transitional vessel between an ordinary ship's boat and the independent torpedo boat that was only then being born out of these experiments. A length of around thirty-four feet means that the crew was made up of just a few men and the radius of action remained limited to the surroundings of the mother ship or the base.
With an object this small, cleanness decides. First try the mating surfaces of the hull and the deck dry and even any inaccuracies out by sanding while the parts are still free. Fit the thin vertical features, that is, the funnel and the mast, only after the hull is sprayed. The painting comes out best from a darker undercoat with lighter accentuation of the edges, and a fine dark deposit running into the seams will draw a wooden deck out. The model looks good on a simple stand or on a board with a suggested water surface.
The set is sold unassembled and in the base color of the material, so glue and paints have to be acquired separately.
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