1/96 Los Angeles 3D-printed kit build

[RazorAntilles]

Unless your draw bars have internal seals you will need to have capped off nuts to prevent water working its way inside the wtc by capillary reaction. Some use acorn nuts, or they machine custom thumbnuts or you could braze some tubes onto the wing nuts you have.

If or when you fancy a ballast system, this chap offers some very decent looking files, and no drawbars. The system looks 'inspired' -cough- by the R&R set-up.

https://cults3d.com/en/3d-model/vari...r-rc-submarine

Thanks for the tips! The 3M threaded rod are yet to be trimmed down to an appropriate length, and I do plan to put acorn nuts on as I get closer to completion; the wing nuts are place holders until I decide on something more permanent.

[Subculture]

Okey dokey. The old Eden/sheerline modules used to put the rods externally, with the advantage that they didn’t have to be sealed at all, plus it freed up space inside a bit. The downside was the system took up a bit more space externally.

[RazorAntilles]

No major progress updates yet, but I wanted to show where my build(s) are at. The right hull is the 1/96 LA, of course: it's been fairly heavily sanded with various grits to get it ready for priming, which will likely happen after I get the rudder/plane bushings in. I also intend to prime the inside of the hull both to brighten it up and try to seal any gaps left over from the printing process, but that'll happen after I install the 2.5in WTC mounts, which will be... fun.

I started the 1/144 Typhoon as a materials experiment: I've printed the hull segments in a variety of filaments from PLA to PETG to ASA, just to see what works well with my printer, comes out good, and is easy to work with. I've learned a lot, and will be moving forward almost exclusively with PLA and PETG for boats, likely using PLA for detail parts and PETG for hull segments. This Typhoon has a bow and stern in ASA, a few bottom segments in PLA, and the rest--all the gray and a couple of the black portions--in PETG.