A concept-design, the V60

[MFR1964]

A while back i had contact with Stefan Schmitz from SONAR germany, he asked me if i was interested in the V60, the concept-design before they opted to build the V80, he had 3D files of this boat, he was willing to print this boat for me in the lenght of about 1 meter, i've got me a ASA printed boat which i want to build as a beach sub, pretty much the same story as the allready build V80
V stands for Versuchsboote and the number for the tonnage, first some drawings










As you can see there are some features the same as on the V80, diigged into the archives and found the molds of the V80 parts i made in the past, this will give me a sound base from which i can build this boat.







In this state i've got the boat on the bench, i will use the radials cuts to snap this boat together with magnets, same story as with the XXIII and Ko Hyoteki, for now it's building a lot of bulkheads to get this puppy in one piece.

Manfred.

[rwtdiver]

Manfred,

Looking forward to this project. Very unique design, and your Bambu likes it to. The printed pieces look great...

Rob
"Firemen can stand the heat."

[MFR1964]

Thanks Rob, yeah it is a unique design, just made as a proposal for a design, never build in the past.
That printer is from Stefan, he made this hull for me.

Manfred.

[redboat219]

How's the ASA handling the heatwave.
Here in Paris for the week. Temperature is around 36-40s.

[MFR1964]

With those same tempartures around here nothing will stand in this blistering heat, even epoxy doesn"t like that, as for the ASA, the model is inside the cave, which has a temparture around 21 degrees Celsius, so no worries.
During sunny events i try to get my models in the shade, or protect them by covering them up during long periods when i don't drive them

Manfred.

[Subculture]

Printing it with radial splits rather than longitudinal/equatorial also helps enormously.

[MFR1964]

Agreed Andy, it makes live much easier to join all hull parts.

Making the bulkheads is laborius work, have to repeat this at least ten times, to break things up between working on the bulkheads i decided to get me some resin and do some pours to get me some parts


Retrieved the molds from the archives, secured them with rubber bands, allready poured the resin.


Ready to be pulled out of the molds.



Have to do some more pours, but i'm getting there, those are the same parts i used for my V80, have to de-flash them and shape them for the V60, because the hull is not exactly the same

It will take some weeks for finishing the bulkheads, ordered the needed magnets and copper tube i need to join the hull parts

Manfred.

[rwtdiver]

How's the ASA handling the heatwave.
Here in Paris for the week. Temperature is around 36-40s.

Romel,

I guess that could be considered hot in Paris! Here in the great state of Arizona (Phoenix/Gilbert) we are looking at 110 deg. plus, and on Wednesday this week we have a real scorcher 117 to 129 deg. Certainly not great for my PLA boats or my body for that matter...

Rob
"Firemen can stand the heat."