November Holiday

[Davidh]

Scott,

that look soooo nice. I am really looking forward to seeing this boat in the water...


Dave

[HardRock]

Gotta find some water! Only ocean around here for miles. (and no swimmimg pool).

[HardRock]

The hull is together now and conformalarray is almost finished. Its getting blacker and more menacing every day.

[JHapprich]

Really nice, Scott! Although i don't like the scrapyard plating to hide the rusting holes (remember K-159?).strange mice you have over there....Now where is that sail???

[HardRock]

Really nice, Scott! Although i don't like the scrapyard plating to hide the rusting holes (remember K-159?).strange mice you have over there....Now where is that sail???

I wondered about that plating alot. It seems to be too neat to just be a result of a rust repair at the waterline. In any case its there now and I guess that the final finish of the sub will be the rusty, heavily used version that's shown in those photographs.

[HardRock]

I've been playing around with this hull while I wait for the sail to arrive. The junkyard look:

[trout]

I do like that look! Share your processes and tips, please. You are capturing the feel really well.

[HardRock]

Bob Martin did a post some time ago on weather the Nautilus. This one started as a coat of red brown paint as a base coat, followed by masking off the water line and the top and bottom halves of the hull. Then a coat of granite black applied with a sponge on the top half and several coats of rust brown, white and pink sponged onto the bottom. The radomes are just hand painted silver with a bit of rust pigment rubbed on top.

[HardRock]

This is a closer view of the upper surface of the November.



And a few more of the bow.





And the stern.

[trout]

There are some models when you look closer, you see more mistakes, but as I look closer on your sub, I love it more! Outstanding.

[bwi 971]

I wondered about that plating alot. It seems to be too neat to just be a result of a rust repair at the waterline. In any case its there now and I guess that the final finish of the sub will be the rusty, heavily used version that's shown in those photographs.

First, good to hear those pills work Scott, and you didn't do a "Harold Hold".

Sad to hear you had to get rid of the farm but hey you still have a shop bigger that 90% of us.

Regarding the plating.

The K3 was covered with rubber coating, so the plating you see was flush with the tiles when they were in place.

To back up the story:

An extract of a text I found

Quote

"As a result, the submarine traveled 15,000 miles during the voyage, successfully made its way into the Mediterranean Sea, where it indicated the presence of the Soviet submarine fleet. K-27, after returning from the campaign, docked in Severodvinsk for repairs. It was then, when opening the hydro-acoustic rubber coating, "

Unquote

and a picture where you see the transition lines in the coating/tiles.



Grtz,

Bart

[HardRock]

That truly amazing. Thanks Mate. I'm mucking around with it at the moment as I wait for the sail and props to arrive from across the sea. It seems that getting anything out of the USA is very difficult right now. Strangely I got a package from India that took five days door to door! Maybe India should take over the USPS!

[JHapprich]

Good rsearch however i am about 99 percent sure early k3 had no such coating . K27 is different, also beeing counted fir november class, they changed a lot in that design. More a testbed for new technologies

[gantu]

[HardRock]

Damn! I sent you that stuff weeks ago, Scott.

David

Yep. I even check at the old farm address but no luck there either. I'm thinking of grinding the side strips off the hull and taking it back to an operational version. Might take a while but then again, it might take a while for the sail to arrive too.