I’m back with this week’s “What’s Walrus Building?” I’ve got the update on how far I’ve gotten with the current build. The problems encountered, a previous build and a preview of two new builds I’ll get to after finishing the Tiger 1:12 which will be going on a long time. You know, I’m thinking I may need to get a new intern to host this for me. I’m such a busy man these days. Oh well, something for later. (Cities Skyline 2 drops Monday so my spare time may disappear.) First an old build.

Background

USS Tang (SS-306) was a Balao-class submarine of World War II, the first ship of the United States Navy to bear the name Tang. She was built and launched in 1943, serving until being sunk by her own torpedo off China in the Taiwan Strait on 24 October 1944.

In her short career in the Pacific War, Tang sank 33 ships totalling 116,454 tons. Commander Richard O’Kane received the Medal of Honor for her last two engagements (23 and 24 October 1944).

Tang was sunk during the last engagement by a circular run of her final torpedo, going down in 180 ft (55 m) of water. 78 men were lost, and the nine survivors were picked up by a Japanese frigate and taken prisoner of war. This was the only known time that a Momsen lung was used to escape a sunken submarine.

Current Build Tiger 1:12

Boy howdy was this a rough start. First though some information. This came in four separate boxes each one about the size of a single build. Here is the first box.

So it begins. Inside we find the usual multiple packets of grouped parts.

Got my sorting bins set up to keep them separate.

So the work begins and seems to go well.

The second packacge is just another one of these which then snaps together with the previously built one. I completed that when disaster struck. There was a slight misalignment with one of the outside parts but I could see why, unless it was the slightly different piece then the one required. But I couldn’t tell where or which piece it was and everything was over lapping. I had no choice but to start from scratch. So I wasted about 5 hours of build time to do so but I finally got it together properly.

I’m working through the next two packets and will show that in next week’s update. Hopefull things will go smoother from now on but one frustrating thing about the instructiions is that they are not always clear as to exactly where a piece goes and if you miss by 1 stub you may not find out until you’ve done a lot more work. Keeping my fingers crossed.

Future Builds

These are not Cobi builds, but use the same lego style bricks. What’s nifty is that they are motorized. I hope that does not make it too complicated but we will see. I had a coupon from Warbricks, they’re great. They basically sell the Cobi sets, who have their own site, but somethimes have builds not available elsewhere and some sales. Check them out if you are interested in military builds. So here is what is on deck. A Tiger and as Panther, surprise!

Until next week, peace out.