Japanese Class A 1/16

[Albion]

No, I don't believe so. I went as far as to produces an 'enhancement' fittings kit to improve the detailing of the basic William's kit -- but he stopped producing the kits (I think he assumed room temperature a while back). So, there I was: some beautiful appendages with no hull kit to go with them. Damn!
M

Hmm Any drawings, Theres a nice model in war museum in tokyo, but i only got some some blurry photos from my phone. Might need a trip back and some decent snaps

[Von Hilde]

That's outstandig with the rivets, I've seen several 3 dimensional wax and resin ones in various scales stuck on transfer paper. Neve had the chance to try them. Usually press my own from the back of apiece of metal with a tool. Time consuming for sure.

[MFR1964]

Von, that will be something for the future when the Ko Hyoteki is done, i did played with the thought of making a modular mold, so i can use different parts depending on which sub you want to build, as for the front antifauling part,



I can take mine off, the plug has to be stripped from all parts when i want to mold her.



Remember that reinforcement rod?, it's made like this, a piece of thread at the back, so by turning it round it will release the bowpart from the nut inside, so building a B type bowpart is possible and can be swapped with the A type bowpart.



Right now she's on the bench, hollowed out the frontplate for the future tubes, resizing the pyramid part on the reinforcement rod, and started adding the rivets on the pads, bought those from a RChelicopter shop, guys at our dutch forum use them to scale up their helicopters, the head of that rivet is abour 1,5 mm, shaft about 1 mm, so i will use them also to make my tower and hull more scale, they send them in bulk, 1200 in one package, enough to build me several subs.

Manfred.

[Von Hilde]

Do i hear kairyu kit?, no hull?, maybe we can do something about that, slap!!, slap!!, back to the cave, finish your Ko Hyoteki!!. Yes master!!
Manfred.

Manfred, that hull has several varients you know. Use the same center section with different, bows, tails and towers and anti fowling gear. A Sydney type B with the cool saw looking diflector on the tower or a different stern fins like the Kairyu and tower varients.

[He Who Shall Not Be Named]

What about the kit with all the bell cranks and little parts for the rudders and planes? I could utilize one of those if you have any left.

I'll check the sheds tomorrow, Dave.

M

[Von Hilde]

What about the kit with all the bell cranks and little parts for the rudders and planes? I could utilize one of those if you have any left.

[MFR1964]

Do i hear kairyu kit?, no hull?, maybe we can do something about that, slap!!, slap!!, back to the cave, finish your Ko Hyoteki!!. Yes master!!

Manfred.

[He Who Shall Not Be Named]

Are those Kairyu kits around anymore?

No, I don't believe so. I went as far as to produces an 'enhancement' fittings kit to improve the detailing of the basic William's kit -- but he stopped producing the kits (I think he assumed room temperature a while back). So, there I was: some beautiful appendages with no hull kit to go with them. Damn!















M

[Albion]

Are those Kairyu kits around anymore?

[He Who Shall Not Be Named]

What did Adam use to thin out the glazing putty? And is the hypodermic needle reusable, or hard to clean?

High MEK bearing lacquer thinner.

Note that I replace the way-too-small original needle with a 1/16" o.d. brass tube -- big enough to pass the putty.

If the needle clogs, it clogs at the tip, just score 1/16" back from the tip and snap off the end, exposing still wet putty. During use I ream out the needle with a drill to address any in-work clogging. The loaded putty syringe is good for about a week -- enough time to do all the work on one model -- longer than that the plunger goes sour.

I'm showing off the 'weld lines' applied to the 1/16 Type-A master and the 1/12 KAIRYU kit.

[Von Hilde]

What did Adam use to thin out the glazing putty? And is the hypodermic needle reusable, or hard to clean?

[greenman407]

Wow, look at those counter-rotating props. What does that hull take, a 2" Subdriver? Dave , like me, youve got way too many irons in the fire at the same time. But thats what keeps this hobby interesting.

[He Who Shall Not Be Named]

Dave, are you going to produce Genes hull?

No, his was a much smaller model.

I'm thinking of finishing this 1/16th master and working it to tooling and parts for a kit. A joint project between me and Adam many years ago. He was apprenticing here at the time -- this was his graduate project. He left it here and I secured his permission to finish it and go commercial with the thing.

[Von Hilde]

Dave, are you going to produce Genes hull?

[Von Hilde]

Dad said "You buy Japanese, you get Japanese"