RE: Building the U-52
The hatch is done!!!
Alright!!! I woke up this morning and decided to work on the hatch further, I made a circle base using plasticard so that the hatch diameter would be increased according to the plans. Cutting and gluing on the styrene handles was a real pain, I actually ended up losing some of the pieces two or three times on my workbench!! The parts were assembled using the CA glue but when it came to assemble the handles, I noticed that the hatch itself was actually unbalanced. I thought I could fix the problem by cutting out another bigger circle from plastic using a penny as a template but I noticed that the penny was a perfect fit for the base of the hatch! So finally, once assembled, the hatch itself actually sat a bit higher than it was supposed to be but the overall looks of the tiny spring, the handles, and the penny really adds to the overall scale effects.