Very cool. Did that bow plane configiuration remain for the whole life of the boat - and did any others get it?
Assembling a 1/96 WEBSTER kit
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David, the aft end of your sub is covered in a slurry? Is that Nitro-Stan and what?
is there any tips on mixing? I have a ton of small pin holes on the Walrus. Need your help.If you can cut, drill, saw, hit things and swear a lot, you're well on the way to building a working model sub.Comment
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It will be sanded back with #240 wet -- using one of my patented double-sided, sharp-edged, semi-stiff sanding tools, like so:
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Heat the work up to about 150-degrees. The hot air in those little pockets is not as dense as the ambient air. Quickly brush your slurry (putty or on-cut primer) over the surfaces of the work. As the putty/primer and work cools, the expanded air in the voids contracts, pulling the filler/primer into the voids, filling them (not completely, but enough). This way, when you sand the surface, you don't experience the frustration of opening up the same voids you attempted to fill.
Anyone assembling the early resin kits before the common practice of pressure/vacuum casting (pressure casting something I brought to garage kit industry decades ago ... didn't invent, but popularized through magazine articles and lectures) knows the horror of filling and working a model parts surface possessing those horrible little air-bubbles.
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Are those bullet shape contouring tools a commercially available item or completely DIY?
In my line of work they're called orifice dilators https://www.coopersurgical.com/Produ...vical-dilators.Last edited by redboat219; 10-03-2017, 06:30 PM.Make it simple, make strong, make it work!Comment
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Are those bullet shape contouring tools a commercially available item or completely DIY?
In my line of work they're called orifice dilators https://www.coopersurgical.com/Produ...vical-dilators.
I use them as fillet forming tools. Usually heated and used to form wax fillets in foundry patterns (old-school).
In this case the fillet running between bow plane structure and bow. Mom was a jeweler -- I took her stuff when she died.
David
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