Super submarine aircraft carrier

[McColm]

    Whilst researching an article on YouTube about submarine aircraft carriers, the Japanese during World War II built their own version the l-400 class. They came up the the idea to place two of the same submarines side-by-side and put an outer shell over them. Three Aichi Mea Seiran aircraft could be housed in a hanger above the deck. The aircraft had fold up wings that could be stored along the aircraft's fuselage, floats added for recovery and extended exhaust pipes to vent the fumes inside the hanger. The oil was heated and piped into the aircraft to speed up the launch on a catapult rail.
The Russians used the same idea on the 'Typhoon Class'. 

The idea of using three kits side-by-side would be ideal as the middle part could be omitted to give more interior hanger space, the conning tower moved to the rear. Kit has mentioned Skyhooks on a topic 'HMS Tin Can', but I thought I'd start a new topic.
My idea is for something modern or Russian  as the hull is more angular than most submarines I've seen.
I haven't worked out the scale of kits to use, so any help or ideas would be welcomed.

[Spey_Phantom]

ive seen that same clip to the other day, and kinda had me thinking the same thing.

looking at the recently released Revell 1/72 USS Skipjack, i think with a bit of rebuilding and modifications, it can be scale-o-rama'd into a 1/144 Submarine aircraft carrier, operating Harriers or Sea Harriers 
wouldnt need that much work kinda think of it 

[sandiego89]

Perhaps 2 hulls side by side, with a new smaller central hanger/sail atop the two hulls, sitting partially rececessed atop the gap between the two lower hulls.  For the smaller hanger you could use a smaller size submarine.  Like a kilo mounted atop two alfa or oscar class, or fabricate something from a round tube or a large shape in you stores bin- like a 1/72 scale aircraft fuel tank atop a 1/700 scale hull

Scale depends on how much you want to spend.  1/350 is likely best to get an adequate size, but 1/700 hulls are cheap and easy to come by- but quite small. Plenty of 1/700 Los Angels class and plenty of Russian class hulls for less than $10 each.  1/700 might serve as a usful trial scale before you try soemthing more elaborate in 1/350 or larger.  

[McColm]

Thanks for the replies.

[Mondria]

its one of my planned ideas too, here are my ideas.

a smaller sub, single big tube with vertical launch (zero launch) planes, that land on the water (like the seadart) for lack of space on the sub or vertical landing like harriers,  tower that the back with crane and side lift for lifting planes out of the water.

2 tubes, 1 use for the sub parts, the tube next to it doing the aircraft stuff like hanger, catapult and sort, 2 lifts front and back, single coning tower on the sub tube on about mid way

I want to use pvc tubes for it with parts from a donor kit for the tower and the likes.
I dont think its a hard thing to build just have not found the time yet

[McColm]

I've been think along the same lines, using builders' tubing to extend/stretch some of my aircraft builds. This would work on the Airfix BAe Nimrod as the upper part of the figure of eight is circular and I have enough spare parts for the weapons bay underneath. The C-130 may require a much larger pipe to extend the fuselage from the wing/wheel area forwards to the cockpit.
A scratch build super-sub could be built this way.