3D printed 1/48 Thresher

[He Who Shall Not Be Named]

Excellent! Thanks again.

Anytime. You going to Groton?

David

[SubDude]

I wish I could make it but I can't swing the time away for it and SubFest too. Bummed.

[He Who Shall Not Be Named]

I wish I could make it but I can't swing the time away for it and SubFest too. Bummed.

Nuts. See you in Georgia then...

[SubDude]

The forward hatch detail was just a little to prominent for my taste so I made a slight change.

Before...


After...


It's not quite as pronounced now. I will do the same for the aft hatch after the part is printed. I am really liking how this particular boat is turning out.

Actually, a couple of the extra hatches that David Ruiz made for his Type IX build I am working on will fit perfectly on this sub. I should be able to come close to following David Merimans fine example of this on his Threshers. I still have to make the hatch cover plate but that will be easy.

[He Who Shall Not Be Named]

Excellent work, sir. This will be a stunner!

Two 'rr's'.

David

[SubDude]

Thank you sir. Just 5 more parts to print...

[wlambing]

593 and later classes did not have exposed handwheels on the hatches. The hatch cover was a flat plate with only a 1 - 1.5" diameter hole for a divers wrench socket to fit into. The messenger bouy cable end swivel is affixed to the flat plate via a nifty looking connector.

[He Who Shall Not Be Named]

593 and later classes did not have exposed handwheels on the hatches. The hatch cover was a flat plate with only a 1 - 1.5" diameter hole for a divers wrench socket to fit into. The messenger bouy cable end swivel is affixed to the flat plate via a nifty looking connector.

However...

[SubDude]

I was going to point out these very pictures as well but His High Excellencey beat me to it. Thanks David. Lol...

[He Who Shall Not Be Named]

I was going to point out these very pictures as well but His High Excellencey beat me to it. Thanks David. Lol...

https://youtu.be/3bQnxlHZsjY

[SubDude]

I've always liked that movie.

[He Who Shall Not Be Named]

I've always liked that movie.

The engineering displayed on how they erected that edifice. Nice! Grunt physics on display. So, Moses was a Civil Engineer and a mystic (strange bed-fellows).

David

[wlambing]

Musta been a later modification, then. I was only 6 when Thresher went down. My uncle was new-construction crew on PCU Flasher then, too. Somewhere along the way, hatch fairing plates got put on to lessen flow noise.

[He Who Shall Not Be Named]

Musta been a later modification, then. I was only 6 when Thresher went down. My uncle was new-construction crew on PCU Flasher then, too. Somewhere along the way, hatch fairing plates got put on to lessen flow noise.

Agreed, Bill. Later boats, like the GATO had those fairing plates and streamlined bail-down-haul cable arrangements. But, my interest is the first few THRESHER class -- the boats with the tiny sail, short hull, and no towed array flushing-tube fairing. (Which means I'll have to correct some of my models to include the small vertical stabilizers [pre-puff mounts?] seen on the horizontal stabilizers of some of those boats).

Good stuff. Can never have too much information.

David

[SubDude]

Just down to two parts left to print. The upper parts are glued together except for the sail as well as the lower parts. The detail for both hatches is in place and I added the plates on the upper rear of the sail. Aside from a few easy modifications to some of the hull section joining rings where there were interference issues it is perhaps the cleanest hull I have printed yet. I am going to pay extra attention to the detail and finish of this boat.