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  • HardRock
    Vice Admiral
    • Mar 2013
    • 1609

    She's right. That looks great! Now get back to work on that Victor.

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    • trout
      Admiral
      • Jul 2011
      • 3545

      Wow, ok break over, get that sub to the market!
      If you can cut, drill, saw, hit things and swear a lot, you're well on the way to building a working model sub.

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      • bwi 971
        Captain
        • Jan 2015
        • 896

        Workshop lost her virginity today.

        Did some experiments on weldings/panel lines on the tower. Easiest way was to scribe them, but I wanted to try something different. The scale however is always the problem.

        1st attempt: use brass wire and glued it in place, leaves a terrible round profile, impossible to get writ of it by filler or any other means
        2nd attempt: use fishing wire and sand it to halve its diameter, good luck with that, gave up on that one.
        3rd attempt: use 0.2mm fishing wire, scribe panel lines and ley in the wire with CA. That worked out, it was still a quest to find the right way to apply the CA without making a mess (a needle worked for me). When I will aply the paint the contour will further blend in.

        Pictures below show the result, used the needle to give a comparison about the dimensions of the wire used.

        Grtz,
        Bart


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        Practical wisdom is only to be learned in the school of experience.
        "Samuel Smiles"

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        • HardRock
          Vice Admiral
          • Mar 2013
          • 1609

          You are a maniac! So good to see that boat getting done. Cool idea as well.

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          • DrSchmidt
            Captain
            • Apr 2014
            • 919

            Folks....why don't you use Archer Fine Transfer surface detail decals:
            https://www.hobbylinc.com/archer-sur...no-scale-88013

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            • bwi 971
              Captain
              • Jan 2015
              • 896

              Originally posted by He Who Shall Not Be Named
              Damn you!... damn you sir!!!!

              I get comfortable with the existing standard, then some a-hole comes along and raises the bar out of reach! ****!!!

              THANKS!

              David
              Jeez.....indeed I wonder who is responsible for initiating such a behavior......and don't look behind you there is nobody standing there.

              grtz,
              Bart





              Practical wisdom is only to be learned in the school of experience.
              "Samuel Smiles"

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              • bwi 971
                Captain
                • Jan 2015
                • 896

                Originally posted by DrSchmidt
                Folks....why don't you use Archer Fine Transfer surface detail decals:
                https://www.hobbylinc.com/archer-sur...no-scale-88013
                Any idea on the width of the decals?

                grtz,
                Bart
                Practical wisdom is only to be learned in the school of experience.
                "Samuel Smiles"

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                • bwi 971
                  Captain
                  • Jan 2015
                  • 896

                  Applied first layer of filler......the result is what I aimed for......some sanding and pin hole filling and the sail is ready for tooling.

                  Grtz,
                  Bart


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                  Practical wisdom is only to be learned in the school of experience.
                  "Samuel Smiles"

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                  • coryhenry
                    Lieutenant Commander
                    • Jul 2020
                    • 156

                    Does anyone know why they don't grind the weld lines during construction of the real thing, it seems like it wil affect laminar flow.

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                    • bwi 971
                      Captain
                      • Jan 2015
                      • 896

                      Rectified a design flaw for tooling, the struts in the sail to take the magnets would have kept me from removing the core, I extended the struts upwards, so they are not forming an recess anymore, hope this make sense. The extensions are the pink colored pieces of modeling board.

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                      All is ready now for tooling

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                      Practical wisdom is only to be learned in the school of experience.
                      "Samuel Smiles"

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                      • MFR1964
                        Detail Nut of the First Order
                        • Sep 2010
                        • 1290

                        It's good to see the Bart-man at work, by the way, i would give my right arm to get a shop as yours.

                        Manfred.
                        I went underground

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                        • bwi 971
                          Captain
                          • Jan 2015
                          • 896

                          Originally posted by MFR1964
                          It's good to see the Bart-man at work, by the way, i would give my right arm to get a shop as yours.

                          Manfred.
                          Yeah good to be back also, building the shop took a while, requiring all the materials during C19 lockup was a pain, ordered a lot of stuf from you guys over the border.
                          grtz,
                          Bart
                          Practical wisdom is only to be learned in the school of experience.
                          "Samuel Smiles"

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                          • bwi 971
                            Captain
                            • Jan 2015
                            • 896

                            I am reluctant to tell people what I have been doing in the weekend.
                            Seems that, filling 0.5 scribing lines with paint by use of a needle is not a usual thing to do.
                            You can see the fear kick in, answering their next question “why” by telling them that else the 0.2mm louvers of the vent grating will fill up by paint to, does not really help to keep the conversation going.

                            Addressing scribing groves.
                            Close up of problem (IMO)


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                            Aplied paint in the grooves

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                            Preparing for tooling, modeling clay uses to seal the openings in the sail and used as a bed for the sail to sit on.

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                            grtz,
                            Bart

                            Practical wisdom is only to be learned in the school of experience.
                            "Samuel Smiles"

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                            • bwi 971
                              Captain
                              • Jan 2015
                              • 896

                              Hi gents,

                              If its not apropirate just remove this post.

                              FYI.......I made the tandemprop and escape hatch available in my shapeways shop ,link below,

                              Highly detailed parts for scale&nbsp;submarines. Because I love doing this stuff and to keep this extraordinary niche in the world of RC modeling alive.<br /> <a href="http://scale-submarine.com/" rel="nofollow">http://scale-submarine.com/index</a>



                              Grtz,
                              Bart
                              Practical wisdom is only to be learned in the school of experience.
                              "Samuel Smiles"

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                              • bwi 971
                                Captain
                                • Jan 2015
                                • 896

                                Sail tooling finished.

                                Pictures start with the finished product.......further down the story towards it.
                                Very pleased with the result......every detail was captured in the tool.

                                Grtz,
                                Bart

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