Victor III

[bwi 971]

A practical articulated control surface?...

You nut! You European's are a scary bunch.

David
Amazed

not my fault....It was your idea, you started it sir....see below.
grtz,
Bart

Are you going to articulate (variable camber) the bow planes?

David

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You mean we make the "flap plane" work. Are you trying to kill me mr Horrible?

[He Who Shall Not Be Named]

(screaming at the heavens) "What have I done!!???...."

[trout]

not my fault....It was your idea, you started it sir....see below.
grtz,
Bart

He is right David, it is your fault. Thank you.

[bwi 971]

He is right David, it is your fault. Thank you.

Thank you?....some foreplay would have been nice Tom...he will now come up with another "innocent" question
(and don’t tell him that I have enjoyed designing them)

grtz,
Bart

[trout]

Thank you?....some foreplay would have been nice Tom...

LOL, I almost spit my coffee onto my keyboard. That made my day.

[HardRock]

Ahem... He's a serial offender Tom.

[bwi 971]

Outfitting's ready to take paint, after one coat of spray putty and 2 coats of primer, wet sanding in between.

Grtz,
bart

ready to take paint



Spray putty applied




ready to take the filler coats

[bwi 971]

Test fitting rudders and palnes before making the toolings, all parts are registrated by means of dowel pins. Perfect fit and easy instalation for the end users .

Grtz,
bart

[bwi 971]

Hi gents,

Some time has past sinds my last post, I was bored with the production work, so I started preparing my next project.
I also hit a roadblock on the VICTOR III. It is not uncommon when creating things, but this was a major one for me, and wanted to share.

I made a choice in the density of the tooling board before starting this project, Density: 0.45 g/cm³.

First, I encountered some scribing stencils problems, then I however encountered some scribing problems with the material itself. It seemed that the density was to low, scribing results were returning horrible, the material didn’t ship all the time, sometimes it just was compressed, especially in the corners. Very frustrating.

So I laid the hulls aside but that didn’t solve the problem.
Alter some time off I decided to rebuild the hull from some harder material. I decided to print the bow as a test piece.
The scribing was a relieve the material was hard enough and returned a scribing perfect result.

I re-designed the hull and printed all the parts. After 120hr the parts were finished, and everything was glued together.
The picture below shows the old and the new, the old shows all the scribing attempts, the new hull is partly sanded, the bow is coated in primer (the test piece), the torpedo hatch was the test scribe.

Grtz,
Bart