Victor III

[He Who Shall Not Be Named]

That first picture suggests the boat would look great with an an x-tail configuration. Not scale, but I bet it would a hoot to drive, especially with full flying control surfaces. Crossfire-Beluga!

Yeah, Andy. They called it, ALBACORE phase-3

David

[bwi 971]

When I don't like it, I kill it.

The creeper shafts were not perfect as I wanted them to be......the inevitable happened.

De most difficult in the built process is symmetry PS & SB. In this specific case another plane had to be encountered for “Upper & Lower” part of the tailpiece.

Grtz,
bart


One done



Both done



Test fitting lower and upper

[He Who Shall Not Be Named]

When I don't like it, I kill it.

The creeper shafts were not perfect as I wanted them to be......the inevitable happened.

De most difficult in the built process is symmetry PS & SB. In this specific case another plane had to be encountered for “Upper & Lower” part of the tailpiece.

Grtz,
bart


One done



Both done



Test fitting lower and upper

Detail FREAK!!

(have my baby!)

David

[bwi 971]

Apart of the above tail pieces and Scott's BELUGA....I BUSTED MY ASS PAST WEEK ON THE VICTOR III

I just finised the upper middel sections and the transsition sections. Yes I try to name every part so I can keep the overview.

After months of R&D and buiding you can't beat the feeling when you line up all the parts and you actually see the upper part of a submarine apear, It's better then morningwood.

Both subs are 1/96......I'm so happy with the BELUGA......it must be awesome if they lay beside each other in the water, can't wait to see that.

Grtz,
Bart

[HardRock]

That Victor looks FANTASTIC!!! (Also, it looks like your Beluga has measles. Better not let them get too close.)

[trout]

wow, that looks great! I know a gentleman in Colorado that is itching for your Victor III.

[HardRock]

Looks like the measles are spreading!

[bwi 971]

I finished the lower hull master, the new creeper shafts are in and adressed the holes for the rudder which were not centered.

Grtz,
Bart


New creeper shafts







Made a tool to drill the new ruddder holes







And last but not least the lower hull side by side with the upper.

[He Who Shall Not Be Named]

Jaw dropingly good looking work there, Bart. Beautifully designed fixtures and lay-out. Real good stuff, sir.

David

[Peter W]

Absolutely 1st class Bart. It looks every inch (25.4mm) a Victor III.

Peter

[bwi 971]

Thank you guy's, I'll take it........still have nightmares because of the flat deck......the fwd dropdown, the width, the concaveness......I think I changed it a trillion times.

Grtz,
Bart

[trout]

yowza - that is beautiful!

[bwi 971]

yowza - that is beautiful!

Hé Pa learned a new word "yawza", thks Tom.

grtz,
Bart

[bwi 971]

I saw the D&E video a few times now.....I have a question.......how you integrate the index lip into the hull like the picture below?

it looks like a gelcoat is also applied in the index lips....can't figure it out.

thks, grtz,
Bart

[He Who Shall Not Be Named]

The indexing lip is homogeneous with the rest of the rubber glove-mold used to give form to the hull half. The hull half master with the lip is formed from three-pieces: The hull half master itself, then attached to it the thin indexing board, and to that the stand-off board. The work goes down on a mold-board and the rubber glove-mold built up over the three-element master, followed by the hard-shell mother-mold.

Normal GRP layup is done in the assembled mother-mold and glove-mold tool. And that's it.





A heavily filled gel-coat is applied to the tool where the lip will be formed -- this to radius the right-angle faces between hull edge and face of the indexing lip. Once the sharp edges have been radiused smooth I proceed with a normal gel-coat followed by laminates of glass in the normal manner.










David