Victor III

[Subculture]

Dave praising 3d printed parts?

[He Who Shall Not Be Named]

The surface finish and detail of those printed parts is simply fantastic, Bart.

David

[HardRock]

Insanely good stuff - note "insanely"! I believe that I've made my point.

[bwi 971]

I spent quite some time in developing the mast outfittings (I don’t know all their specific names)…………then spent equal amount of time in trying to print them......I guess today the position of the sun and moon were perfectly because I managed to print them....I’m pretty happy with the amount of detail, even the bolt heads are visible, crazy stuff……here are the pictures of the raw pieces, supports are still present…….yeah I have to remove them without braking anything, wish me luck.

Enjoy the pictures
Grtz,
Bart

[bwi 971]

Hope you dont mind.. i havent been here in a long time
but wow Bart your project is stuning! And the subject...
yha!!!!!!

Why should I mind Tom, thks for the compliment,.....once she will be finished.
Grtz,
Bart

[Tom Spettel]

Hope you dont mind.. i havent been here in a long time
but wow Bart your project is stuning! And the subject...
yha!!!!!!

[bwi 971]

All the gratings and hatches in the sail are done.......test fitted all, there are 37 pc of them.



They follow perfectly the double curvature of the sail, that was my intention.





In addition, on the real sub the sail is provided with cameras and sensors protected by polycarbonate, those pieces (blue arrows in pic) I want to cast in clear resin to simulate this, think this will be a nice detail.



On the SB side of the sail the hatches and gratings are glued in place and to let them pop out I scribed the contours. And yes on the real sub the gratings also do not aline at the bottom.



the evidence



grtz,
Bart

[He Who Shall Not Be Named]

and who's fault is that?......and don't look behind you.
Grtz,
Bart

… just passing the virus down the line. You're welcome.

David

[bwi 971]

Advanced Modeler's Syndrome

David

and who's fault is that?......and don't look behind you.
Grtz,
Bart

[He Who Shall Not Be Named]

OK you got me here.......what AMS stands for?

Advanced Modeler's Syndrome

David

[bwi 971]

Surprised you didn't print the periscope support at the same time as the fin/sail.

With all the cavities that would not work Andy....the resin will stay in there, inpossible to get it out.........in addition the printbed was already full with one part of the sail.

Grtz,
Bart

[bwi 971]

I came across this picture of a door in the sail of a DELTA.....that will add a nice detail to the V3 was my reaction.



I gave it a try and added a framework to the door, I actually tried to do it with all the hatches but that failed......the door turned out ok.......looks like a Belgian waffle

[Subculture]

Surprised you didn't print the periscope support at the same time as the fin/sail.

[bwi 971]

You got AMS. BAD!@!!

OK you got me here.......what AMS stands for?

[The Boattrainman]

This is awesome work, with five kits/kit bashed subs behind me I would love to be able to do this and go from scratch.

Rob