Hey, Moe!! Hey, Larry!! Nyuk, nyuk!!
The "crazy one" is back!! Abandon hope all ye who enter here!! Hah!!
O.K.! We have forward plane retract float in place.
I drilled a 3/32" hole in a piece of 1/8" x 1/4" styrene and temporarily anchored it in place.
In hindsight, I should have drilled it a little smaller, but this will work fine!
The float itself is a piece of closed cell foam that was leftover from my little Revell 1/230 Skipjacks'
1 1/4" SD. That's a nickel sitting on top of it for size comparison.
The float is a little too light to retract the planes, but I'm considering adding a bit of weight to it by
sticking a penny(?) to the bottom of it with a little silicone, which should help considerably. ( or not??)
This photo was taken at the bow looking aft.
As is clearly visible, the port plane doesn't retract all the way against the hull.
I'll have to shorten the operating arm to correct that. The starboard plane "pegs" before the port side is all the way in.
Should be a "no-brainer" fix!
As there's not a whole lot of room in this area (Really?), the planes will still be in "dive mode" when she's at the surface,
but at least they won't be flapping around like some crazed seabird!! From the outset of the "challenge",
I was pretty sure that this would be the case! Oh, well!! I gave it a good shot!! Once back on her stand though,
they'll be folded in all the way! I'll take the little victories as they come!!
But just the fact that they work at all, in such a small model, got me pretty "stoked"!! The "old fart" here
still has "it"! (Wonder if antibiotics will clear it up? LOL)
Next up, I think, will be a shot of primer inside the hull, after a little clean-up sanding! Then I'm "goin' in"!!
Gonna "bite-the-bullet" and glue the hull halves together! Arrrgh!!! Pray fer me, y'all!!
That is all!
crazygary, out!
The "crazy one" is back!! Abandon hope all ye who enter here!! Hah!!
O.K.! We have forward plane retract float in place.
I drilled a 3/32" hole in a piece of 1/8" x 1/4" styrene and temporarily anchored it in place.
In hindsight, I should have drilled it a little smaller, but this will work fine!
The float itself is a piece of closed cell foam that was leftover from my little Revell 1/230 Skipjacks'
1 1/4" SD. That's a nickel sitting on top of it for size comparison.
The float is a little too light to retract the planes, but I'm considering adding a bit of weight to it by
sticking a penny(?) to the bottom of it with a little silicone, which should help considerably. ( or not??)
This photo was taken at the bow looking aft.
As is clearly visible, the port plane doesn't retract all the way against the hull.
I'll have to shorten the operating arm to correct that. The starboard plane "pegs" before the port side is all the way in.
Should be a "no-brainer" fix!
As there's not a whole lot of room in this area (Really?), the planes will still be in "dive mode" when she's at the surface,
but at least they won't be flapping around like some crazed seabird!! From the outset of the "challenge",
I was pretty sure that this would be the case! Oh, well!! I gave it a good shot!! Once back on her stand though,
they'll be folded in all the way! I'll take the little victories as they come!!
But just the fact that they work at all, in such a small model, got me pretty "stoked"!! The "old fart" here
still has "it"! (Wonder if antibiotics will clear it up? LOL)
Next up, I think, will be a shot of primer inside the hull, after a little clean-up sanding! Then I'm "goin' in"!!
Gonna "bite-the-bullet" and glue the hull halves together! Arrrgh!!! Pray fer me, y'all!!
That is all!
crazygary, out!
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