New Trumpeter Kilo 1:144 Build

[redboat219]

[He Who Shall Not Be Named]

Indeed......

[redboat219]

Don't become one of those incessant posters here who have yet to get an r/c submarine to work successfully in the water. There's at least one guy here who's been posting for over a decade asking questions and offering advice, yet has not (to the best of my knowledge) got anything working in the water. Don't be that guy!!!!!

FINISH IT!

David

[trout]

Ah, gotta love those "gentle" kick in the butt, inspirational, motivational, attitude adjusting talks.
I think that is why crawl, walk, run is drilled into my head along with "get the sub working".

[biggsgolf]

Will do Sir!

[He Who Shall Not Be Named]

I will try doing that later on. Now on the rudder light…. lights are too big…. Should I leave where it is, place it without fairing where it should be or not use a light?

Leave it as is and move on the real problems of getting this little beast operational.

Get anal on your next boat.

The object of this exercise is to get a working r/c submarine in the water. Stop futzing with the detail **** and just get the thing seaworthy. Too much attention to 'detail' leads to frustration and yet another abandoned project.

Don't become one of those incessant posters here who have yet to get an r/c submarine to work successfully in the water. There's at least one guy here who's been posting for over a decade asking questions and offering advice, yet has not (to the best of my knowledge) got anything working in the water. Don't be that guy!!!!!

FINISH IT!

David

[biggsgolf]

I will try doing that later on. Now on the rudder light…. lights are too big…. Should I leave where it is, place it without fairing where it shoud be or not use a light?

[biggsgolf]

Hahaha, you will be ok

[He Who Shall Not Be Named]

3D printed

3D printed part. Just keep twisting that knife, pal!



David
Sulking in Corner

[biggsgolf]

3D printed

[He Who Shall Not Be Named]

Thanks David, now sit your ass back down and have some dinner!

LOL. Will do, sir.

David

[biggsgolf]

Thanks David, now sit your ass back down and have some dinner!

[He Who Shall Not Be Named]

What color of red is best for the lower hull?

Good question. It's close enough to the look of formula-121 anti-foul red (most often used on American boats that use an off-black anti-foul) to not matter once you apply your 'weathering' effects over it. If anything, the Ruski anti-foul is a tad brighter -- more to the red, and less to the American red-brown (brick-red I've heard it called) of 121.

Damn you!... I have to get off my fat ass to check my Federal Standard chips.... wait one.

OK. If you have your local DuPont paint dealer at hand tell them to mix you up a quart of RS661K (Sherwin-Williams might cross to that number) for a near dead ringer for forumula-121. In the absence of that, mix your own to chip 22203 out of the Federal Standards 595a chip cards. The best match I've found, using the same reference, is 12197 for the Commie boats.



Rotsa Ruck!

David

[biggsgolf]

What color of red is best for the lower hull?

[biggsgolf]

Hahaha, consider it done!!!!!!