1/96 Romeo - Wherefor art thou?

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  • HardRock
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    • Mar 2013
    • 1609

    #46
    Time to stick the photo etched brass into the recesses along the hull. Easier said than done. The idea here was that it would be easier to photo etch some brass strips rather than just scribe three hundred small holes. In hindsight the scribing would have been easier. Lessons learned.

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    • He Who Shall Not Be Named
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      • Aug 2008
      • 12253

      #47

      I'm with you. I had the same sad task when I inlayed all the acid-etched limber holes onto the 1/72 FOXTROT model:





















      David

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      • HardRock
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        • Mar 2013
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        #48
        Pesky damn Rurrians with their holes in EVERYTHING! I like that Foxtrot a lot.

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        • HardRock
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          • Mar 2013
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          #49
          How did you do the hull drain holes in your Romeos?

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          • He Who Shall Not Be Named
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            • Aug 2008
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            #50
            Originally posted by HardRock
            Pesky damn Rurrians with their holes in EVERYTHING! I like that Foxtrot a lot.
            Me too. The guy who did the masters and laid-up hulls (only a few were produced) just left town with no forwarding address -- leaving Mike and me high and dry. Our relationship with that guy was to purchase his GRP hulls and sails for sale. Never to be. Boy ... did I invest a lot of time working up the fittings for that never-to-be kit! So did the guy who did all the art-work and acid-etching in support of this never-to-be kit.

            I've run this thing, and it's a great performer on and under the water.


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            • HardRock
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              • Mar 2013
              • 1609

              #51
              Looks like I will need a 2" SD for the Romeo. I have one for the 212 but I suspect that the ballast tank might be a tad too small. Did you ever do a twin motor bulkhead for the 2" SD? I'm not expecting to get this fininshed for a month or two yet, but I'm lining up all the bits in advance, if possible.

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              • HardRock
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                • Mar 2013
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                #52
                Getting the access hatches and the vent holes stuck on this morning. Click image for larger version

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                Time for a short break while I take the hound for a swim in the creek.Click image for larger version

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                • He Who Shall Not Be Named
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                  • Aug 2008
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                  #53
                  Originally posted by HardRock
                  Looks like I will need a 2" SD for the Romeo. I have one for the 212 but I suspect that the ballast tank might be a tad too small. Did you ever do a twin motor bulkhead for the 2" SD? I'm not expecting to get this fininshed for a month or two yet, but I'm lining up all the bits in advance, if possible.
                  Sounds like your ROMEO will be a good candidate for our 1/72 Type-7 SAS SD. That unit features a reasonably large ballast tank and a motor bulkhead equipped with two counter-rotating shafts:









                  Hit Bob up for one and I'll get it off right away.

                  David

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                  • HardRock
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                    • Mar 2013
                    • 1609

                    #54
                    Will do. Although I think I'll ask for a gas only version if that's OK. My damn dam is over thrity feet deep and nothing is coming back up from that depth without gas. I lost the Oscar in there a while ago and had to send number two son on a deep diving mission to recover it.

                    OK. Order placed with Bob.

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                    • He Who Shall Not Be Named
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                      • Aug 2008
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                      #55
                      Originally posted by HardRock
                      Will do. Although I think I'll ask for a gas only version if that's OK. My damn dam is over thrity feet deep and nothing is coming back up from that depth without gas. I lost the Oscar in there a while ago and had to send number two son on a deep diving mission to recover it.

                      OK. Order placed with Bob.
                      That SD comes to you stock with the SAS ballast management sub-system. However, the SD (as all our static type SD's, 2" and above) is configured for a quick retrofit of the emg. gas ballast device, available from Nautilus Drydocks. And you can have it plugged in and working in 30-minutes.

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                      David


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                      • HardRock
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                        • Mar 2013
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                        #56
                        Excellent. Great design.

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                        • HardRock
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                          • HardRock
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                            #58
                            More sanding and adding fiddly bits. Almost there.
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                            • HardRock
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                              • Mar 2013
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                              #59
                              Originally posted by He Who Shall Not Be Named

                              Me too. The guy who did the masters and laid-up hulls (only a few were produced) just left town with no forwarding address -- leaving Mike and me high and dry. Our relationship with that guy was to purchase his GRP hulls and sails for sale. Never to be. Boy ... did I invest a lot of time working up the fittings for that never-to-be kit! So did the guy who did all the art-work and acid-etching in support of this never-to-be kit.

                              I've run this thing, and it's a great performer on and under the water.


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                              A question on the Foxtrot. It looks like the hull is split along the water line. If that's so, is the bottom section cast as two halves or as a single lower casting? I'm considering doing the Romeo this way and I wondered if its a viable solution. It would mean that there would be three sections to align and more margin for error but I think that some of the detail might go missing if I just try to do it as an upper and lower hull. Your thoughts?

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                              • He Who Shall Not Be Named
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                                • Aug 2008
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                                #60
                                Originally posted by HardRock

                                A question on the Foxtrot. It looks like the hull is split along the water line. If that's so, is the bottom section cast as two halves or as a single lower casting? I'm considering doing the Romeo this way and I wondered if its a viable solution. It would mean that there would be three sections to align and more margin for error but I think that some of the detail might go missing if I just try to do it as an upper and lower hull. Your thoughts?
                                Yes, on non-round hulls I prefer to split the hull into an upper and lower half at the designed waterline. Makes it easier to hide the equatorial break with boot-topping and the scum-line (in my world there's always a scum-line!).

                                The hull portions of the kit arrived as a left and right half. These of course, first had to be assembled into a whole, and later marked out and split at the waterline. Rick is an r/c plane guy so his idea of an adequate wall thickness for his subs is at variance with our idea of the proper thickness. These parts were what I would consider, flimsy. So, I laid on some glass on the inside of the two halves to thicken up the eventual edges once the waterline split was accomplished.





                                Once I had achieved the upper and lower hull split I worked out an array of indexing strips and false bulkheads to insure tight registration of the hull when assembled.





                                As you can see, the waterline break gives plenty of access for SD and linkages. This is an easy boat to outfit and maintain because of this accessibility.



                                Here's what you do:

                                split your master at the waterline from the get-go (or use a parting-board if you don't want to molest your master). Make your tooling so you can deal with the negative draft of the bow sonar dome, and stern under-cuts. That means going the rubber glove-hard shell mother mold route. Like this:



                                As you can see, once the unsupported glove mold is out of the mother mold, it's an easy matter to flex it anyway needed to release it from the GRP part laid up within. This is vital to your project as your ROMEO has so many undercut, and high-low detail points (the limber holes). Such detail is hard to capture in a hard-shell tool unless you break it down into three or more sections, which makes production a ****ing nightmare. Go with the glove!





                                More pretty pictures of the glove mold-mother mold process here: http://s262.photobucket.com/user/dme...mother%20molds

                                David
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