Project 665 Whiskey long bin 1/50

[JHapprich]

Greetings! The current state of streamlining the stern. Backing everything up with filler was necessary as there occuredsevereal perforations as espected. Will apply primer or flat black to check symmetry, not finished yet.

[JHapprich]

And the drill bits:

https://www.amazon.de/gp/aw/d/B01MTABZ6P?psc=1&ref=ppx_pop_mob_b_asin_title

[JHapprich]

Hi, available on Amazon:

https://www.amazon.de/Proxxon-Universalhalter-UHZ-Zwinge-28610/dp/B0017NOVR2/ref=asc_df_B0017NOVR2?mcid=44e445f5ad8d3d2d96dade5 d4b9ee8e3&th=1&psc=1&tag=googshopde-21&linkCode=df0&hvadid=697080321013&hvpos=&hvnetw = g&hvrand=6208550217909786270&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvq mt =&hvdev=m&hvdvcmdl=&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=9042931&h vt argid=pla-423451921377&psc=1&hvocijid=6208550217909786270-B0017NOVR2-&hvexpln=0

The desk clamp is removable.

[Albacore 569]

After checking with my reference pictures, i extended the floodholes under the sail. Some minor work done. An old propeller stuck onto the rotary tool effectively blows away all the dust during the milling so one can see the drawing.

Next will be finishing the torpedo shutters.

Where could I get the rotary tool bit and such a mounting for the drill to make my own flood holes please?

[JHapprich]

Another view down the stern, right side only with angled edge yet. Still way to wide. Best guess i put in filler from the inside so i might remove more "meat"!

[JHapprich]

Now my model, started with trimming the edge:

[JHapprich]

Very quiet here...

I made a custom grinding drum for fine tuning of my hand-ground tubedoor channels to achieve a perfect semilunar groove. Worked well, applied a thin coat of nitrofiller afterwards to cover the tool marks (no picture).



The stern end of the model is sadly far off the original and i am trying putting it to shape without carving holes into the sides that will need backing up laminating from the inside. Not yet sure about this.

Problem: the stern is way to fat just in front of the rudder and the kit seem to simply beeing cut out. No streamlining, cross-section is wrong. Knife-stern turned to axe-blade. Stupid stupid stupid...
Am sure i will not be able to turning this into scale shape without tebuilding this entirely since here, the wall thickness is only "normal", compared to 5mm midships. Not much tolerance to remove material. So i step by step am trying at the moment to grind in a credible taper, the rest will be coveted by the massive rudder itself...hopefully...

So this is what a whiskey looks like in general, though the 665 had a Foxtrot-layout with shrouded props and no stern tubes:



...and the model's stern for comparision( elder picture)

[JHapprich]

Any tipp how to implement SHARP pictures? I am taking 12 to 50M photos jpeg, resizing them with a picture resizer app to site specs and they are still brilliant on my phone, yet in here all the details get lost...

[JHapprich]

Some more pictures:

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Putting things back together to check the overall look

[JHapprich]

The tubedoors and some groups of the floodholes below the fwd sail were filled up again. The channels were that made by grinding in an initial groove with the machine and than using the template and a grinding drum by hand. Slight corrections are necessary, yet i think it looks about right now.

[JHapprich]

Started on the shutter doors. The front part was easy. Made a template for the rear section and found my original error: the depht of the tube muzzles as made with the kit are already too deep plus they're entirely wrong shaped.I should have filled them flush and made them all new from the start. Will remove the brown nitro-filler, make a rounded stencil from a piece of pipe with appropriate diameter and push it into fresh filler applied to the recess to produce the channel. Otherwise, it's filling all up again and grinding in a new channel...

[JHapprich]

After checking with my reference pictures, i extended the floodholes under the sail. Some minor work done. An old propeller stuck onto the rotary tool effectively blows away all the dust during the milling so one can see the drawing.

Next will be finishing the torpedo shutters.

[JHapprich]

To the stern:

[JHapprich]

An overview: