Revell 1/72 Skipjack class USS Shark SSN591

[HvyCGN9]

email sent Dave!

looking back at the first run overall I was very happy with the Shark's performance, no water in SD, turning circle was ok until the rudder magnet disconnected (turns out the pushrod was rubbing on a bit of the ballast foam), the ADF2 was misbehaving a bit seems to be only adjusting for bow down situations no movement of aft planes if bow pitches up now! yet it was working perfectly in both directions on Thursday....and had not been fiddled with in between! (picture monkey scratching head...)

Bruce

[Peter W]

Bruce, Sub looks absolutely great in the surface shots, shame about the rudder. I had the propulsor fall off the Trafalgar once, still to this day I am amazed that I managed to recover it, very,very strong loctite holding it on now !

Peter

[HvyCGN9]

Bruce, Sub looks absolutely great in the surface shots, shame about the rudder. I had the propulsor fall off the Trafalgar once, still to this day I am amazed that I managed to recover it, very,very strong loctite holding it on now !

Peter

Thx Peter,
the matt black auto paint came up really well (its the type used for GT stripes)

unfortunately the pond we run at has a large duck population and consquently 2" layer of muck on the bottom, after the council does their once a year clean out it is clean for a short time before returning to its regular condition....

Cheers Bruce

[trout]

Looks really good! It is fun to see your sub next to the ship. It seems getting these subs to work is like taking three steps forward and one step back sometimes. You have a great looking sub.

[HvyCGN9]

Looks really good! It is fun to see your sub next to the ship. It seems getting these subs to work is like taking three steps forward and one step back sometimes. You have a great looking sub.

Thanks mate,

I am going to make up a temporary rudder till my replacement one gets here (Thx DM!!!) and do some more ballasting on the weekend. I was feeling very frustrated earlier in the week but have calmed down now!! I want to get it running reliably then I will add the decals and some weathering. I have knocked up a sort of F shaped floating wharf for Shark to tie up at out of some timber (with some neoprene foam strips to prevent damage) just need to paint it and add some white foam for bouyancy. Also working on a transport/storage box so the Shark doesn't get damaged on trips (or in storage).


the long wharves are about 1m(ish) long and should be wide enough for two Nuke subs to tie up between em' and with space on the outer sides for either two more subs or corvette sized ships. This pic was before all the bollards went on...

Cheers Bruce

[trout]

Bruce,
That dock looks great! Please post more on it.
Peace,
tom

[He Who Shall Not Be Named]

Thanks mate,

I am going to make up a temporary rudder till my replacement one gets here (Thx DM!!!) and do some more ballasting on the weekend. I was feeling very frustrated earlier in the week but have calmed down now!! I want to get it running reliably then I will add the decals and some weathering. I have knocked up a sort of F shaped floating wharf for Shark to tie up at out of some timber (with some neoprene foam strips to prevent damage) just need to paint it and add some white foam for bouyancy. Also working on a transport/storage box so the Shark doesn't get damaged on trips (or in storage).

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the long wharves are about 1m(ish) long and should be wide enough for two Nuke subs to tie up between em' and with space on the outer sides for either two more subs or corvette sized ships. This pic was before all the bollards went on...

Cheers Bruce

Some thought-starters for you, Bruce:

[vital.spark]

David,

How do you cut the circles in your pink foam? I've tried hole saw's which didn't work as they just tore up the foam! I use a small band saw for the strait cuts finishing off with a sanding block but the circle cuts elude me.

Sorry about the Hijack Bruce!

Myron

[He Who Shall Not Be Named]

steak-knife.

M

[HvyCGN9]

Sorry about the Hijack Bruce!

Myron

No worries.....I used my holesaw to cut some circular foam bits for a plug for a 1/72 mk71 8" turret I started to make up (it sits with some other unfinished stuff on the bench) I had no trouble using my variable speed drill on very slow and my hole saw was fairly fine bladed too....

Bruce

[HvyCGN9]

Big thanks to Dave for the spares package that arrived today with the replacement rudder, improved snorkel float and assorted useful goodies.

Spent the weekend (a long weekend here...) over the border in a town called Wagga Wagga for the TF72 Carriers and Escorts run. A short road trip of 942km each way..... took USS LONG BEACH CGN9 and USS SHARK SSN591. I drove over on Friday in convoy with some clubmates and got up early Sat morning to head to the event location the Oasis swimming centres outside pool which is an Olympic length pool(50m) but 2 lanes wider.....normally pool is clean (its not used during the winter as its to cold) but this year had a green tinge and some algae on the bottom....you could still see the bottom so still better than my home pond down the road!!

****** had a detailed account of the Saturday's events written and the damn forum logged me out and only saved the above section.......ARRRRGGGGGHHHHH......try again.....

Shark had a couple of runs with the second one being the longest and only cut short by the Tx battery pack running down. The first run was marred by some setup errors when someone had the airlines to the float valve around wrong way.....The second run later in the day was good with a couple of good deep dives once I have the ballast sorted out she will be a sweet runner. Due to the different motor (lower rpm more torque) I changed the throttle EP to 80% by end of the run this gave a good speed underwater without being uncontrollable.

Here are some pix....


and CGN9 with CG64 Gettysburg and HMS Invincible

[He Who Shall Not Be Named]

My pleasure, sir!

It tickles me pink to see my stuff actually used.

Man! .... when you people travel, you don't **** around!

M

[trout]

I also like seeing pictures, different reason than David I am sure, but still there is something about it. Great photos and it sounds like you had a wonderful time!

[greenman407]

Looking really good. May I ask, what motor did you use in place of the Caswell supplied motor?

[HvyCGN9]

Looking really good. May I ask, what motor did you use in place of the Caswell supplied motor?

I used a POISON brand Truck motor I had sitting on the shelf its a 5 pole hi torque/ lower rpm type used in 1/10th offroaders. only changed it when I was having throttle jitters earlier(later determined to be BEC brown out)

there were only two other subs there a robbe seawolf and a Oberon (surface runner) the o boat liked to do vertical dives if the stern planes come out of the water!! It was freaky Steve is thinking of making it a proper diver....
Bruce