Hello all,
I decided after building the Papa to take a break of sorts. Deal with some orders as they came in and fine tune and tweak the Papa. Turns out she hasn't needed much tweaking, she's run well from almost the beginning.
I tend to start building around September after completion of the last build and the building bug hits. This year I thought I'd try and get reports and all the school end of year stuff out of the way first before starting anything new. I really did'nt know how the whole twin shaft thing would go. I had'nt built one before. As mentioned Papa has been such a nice boat to build that It would go without saying that my next boat would be another twin.
I have always liked the Delta IV. I have never really taken to the earlier ones two's and threes. Mainly this is because of the stern design. The stern arrangement on these boats looks awkward and not flowing or smooth. Two big shafts sticking out of tubes at angles to me always looked like an after thought. This is what I don't get. The Papa had a smooth twin boom arrangement for its shafts as far back as 1962-63 when it was designed. This arrangement wasn't revisited until the mid 1970's with the Oscar and the Delta 4. Why not? In my opinion 1,2 and 3 could have looked much nicer in the rear end...
The Delta series boats have weaved their way in and out of this hallowed site. Bass player whom I believe is in Greece had an incredible Delta IV going on a couple of years ago ,and he had just pulled hull parts from the Mould, then that thread simply did the Harold Holt on us. (Not to be seen again.) (Harold Holt being our Prime minister who in 1967 went for a swim and simply disappeared.)
Anyway, I chose K-18 "Karelia" because it's a nice boat and because I can actually say I have been to the Karelian Istmus in Finland. I looked at the Russian border 200 metres away while visiting the small town of Imatra. Nice.... K-18 had an interesting initial history. She was built just a couple of years before the collapse of the Soviet Union and was then transferred to the Russian Federation Navy.
The Good thing about building the Project 667 unlike the Papa and the Mike is that there are a ton of photos available. Still it will be interesting to see what Gantu can dig up. I have been particularly looking at some Russian websites that have given some really good information in the way of pics and very nice CAD generated plan drawings of the 667. The plans that i will be using are from a Russian forum in particular.
Once again I intend on using a sewer pipe PVC mid section with turned ends. the front is pretty straight forward, the stern is a little more complex. However they will be turned wood. I simply don't have enough Renshape and it is hideously expensive here in Oz. What chunks I have will be used essentially as veneers. with a strip glued along the top of the PVC pipe on the fore and after deck and then a strip that runs along the top of the missile deck.
The boat will be 1/120 scale in keeping with my Borei class. This will make her just a little shorter than Borei and a little easier still to fit sideways in my car. It will easily fit the cylinder that I use in the Papa but will have the luxury of more room for everything especially a larger PVC ballast tank. The great thing about this class also is the fact that they built seven of them. The missile deck will be built up from a plywood box with reinforcements. It will to HWSNBN 's displeasure feature my skills in Blender translating into 3D printed parts. This will mainly be for the control surfaces and screws. The screws in particular on this boat are Diabolical to say the least..
I intend to complete this boat around early 2020. I'm not going to rush this one. Not that I do. I have been rather busy lately, I have had two Mike orders that want to be under someones Christmas tree.
Enough for now,
David H
I decided after building the Papa to take a break of sorts. Deal with some orders as they came in and fine tune and tweak the Papa. Turns out she hasn't needed much tweaking, she's run well from almost the beginning.
I tend to start building around September after completion of the last build and the building bug hits. This year I thought I'd try and get reports and all the school end of year stuff out of the way first before starting anything new. I really did'nt know how the whole twin shaft thing would go. I had'nt built one before. As mentioned Papa has been such a nice boat to build that It would go without saying that my next boat would be another twin.
I have always liked the Delta IV. I have never really taken to the earlier ones two's and threes. Mainly this is because of the stern design. The stern arrangement on these boats looks awkward and not flowing or smooth. Two big shafts sticking out of tubes at angles to me always looked like an after thought. This is what I don't get. The Papa had a smooth twin boom arrangement for its shafts as far back as 1962-63 when it was designed. This arrangement wasn't revisited until the mid 1970's with the Oscar and the Delta 4. Why not? In my opinion 1,2 and 3 could have looked much nicer in the rear end...
The Delta series boats have weaved their way in and out of this hallowed site. Bass player whom I believe is in Greece had an incredible Delta IV going on a couple of years ago ,and he had just pulled hull parts from the Mould, then that thread simply did the Harold Holt on us. (Not to be seen again.) (Harold Holt being our Prime minister who in 1967 went for a swim and simply disappeared.)
Anyway, I chose K-18 "Karelia" because it's a nice boat and because I can actually say I have been to the Karelian Istmus in Finland. I looked at the Russian border 200 metres away while visiting the small town of Imatra. Nice.... K-18 had an interesting initial history. She was built just a couple of years before the collapse of the Soviet Union and was then transferred to the Russian Federation Navy.
The Good thing about building the Project 667 unlike the Papa and the Mike is that there are a ton of photos available. Still it will be interesting to see what Gantu can dig up. I have been particularly looking at some Russian websites that have given some really good information in the way of pics and very nice CAD generated plan drawings of the 667. The plans that i will be using are from a Russian forum in particular.
Once again I intend on using a sewer pipe PVC mid section with turned ends. the front is pretty straight forward, the stern is a little more complex. However they will be turned wood. I simply don't have enough Renshape and it is hideously expensive here in Oz. What chunks I have will be used essentially as veneers. with a strip glued along the top of the PVC pipe on the fore and after deck and then a strip that runs along the top of the missile deck.
The boat will be 1/120 scale in keeping with my Borei class. This will make her just a little shorter than Borei and a little easier still to fit sideways in my car. It will easily fit the cylinder that I use in the Papa but will have the luxury of more room for everything especially a larger PVC ballast tank. The great thing about this class also is the fact that they built seven of them. The missile deck will be built up from a plywood box with reinforcements. It will to HWSNBN 's displeasure feature my skills in Blender translating into 3D printed parts. This will mainly be for the control surfaces and screws. The screws in particular on this boat are Diabolical to say the least..
I intend to complete this boat around early 2020. I'm not going to rush this one. Not that I do. I have been rather busy lately, I have had two Mike orders that want to be under someones Christmas tree.
Enough for now,
David H
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