3D printed 1/48 Thresher
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The rudder was supposed to have both a white stern light (32 points port-starboard... Ed? Help!) And a solid white anchor light above it. The sail mounted port-starboard running lights were in retractable housings.
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I added some strips of fiberglass tape to help add a little strength. This is the first time I have tried this. Another option could be adding some carbon fiber cloth which would really stiffen it up if needed. My plan is to get a coat of primer on it tomorrow.
I did the same thing to the upper hull.Comment
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I added some strips of fiberglass tape to help add a little strength. This is the first time I have tried this. Another option could be adding some carbon fiber cloth which would really stiffen it up if needed. My plan is to get a coat of primer on it tomorrow.
I did the same thing to the upper hull.
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Did you use a conventional paint sprayer (compressor) or HVLP to paint the hull?
That Thresher is looking really nice Steve!!
Rob
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Some color being applied. Once the graphics are on I will give it a clear coat of matte. My guess is that before that fateful final voyage the Navy had her all gussied up and outfitted with the latest greatest bells and whistles so it wouldn't have had much of a scum line or need a bunch of weathering? Thoughts?
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Some color being applied. Once the graphics are on I will give it a clear coat of matte. My guess is that before that fateful final voyage the Navy had her all gussied up and outfitted with the latest greatest bells and whistles so it wouldn't have had much of a scum line or need a bunch of weathering? Thoughts?
Likely it was during that availability that she got her vertical stabilizers and a maze of weapons related improvements and modifications. All that, and more, in preparation at the yard for that boat to enter the fleet as just another patrolling asset.
She was at the yard for some nine months. Some fraction of that stay she was up on the keel-blocks, out of the element, and her hull preserved. Likely sporting the black-red demarcation line at centerline, as you've depicted on your model, Steve.
She was lost only days after leaving the yard -- how long she was pier-side, in the wet, before the loss, I can't find. Lost in April she may have seen the entire spring-time in the water up there in Main. I don't know.
Water temperature and location drives the rate of marine growth on a hull. And she departed for a non VIP event. So, likely no hull numbers or name. Just the draft numbers. And I would paint the marker-buoy fairing plates international-orange. Who knows what they did? But they were going out for deep-dive certification, so maybe they painted those like that?
So. As to how to mark and weather your THRESHER at time of loss? Draft numbers only. Light scum-line, splotchy bleaching (tending to the brown) from waterline down. Lots of vertical streaking from sail, upper rudder and deck down. Gobs of staining on the deck non-skid around the access hatches and cleats. Yard periods are nasty affairs. Add oil-canning on the sail, stabilizers, and control surfaces
And don't forget the bird-****!
I've added some shots of my weathering efforts to horrify/encourage you.
David
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