Japanese Class A 1/16

[MFR1964]

Busy days, managed to get the tower netcutter build and made the netcutter on front of the boat, still have to add the details on some parts but the beginning is there,


Soldered all pieces together, giving you this, the basic layout of the tower netcutter.


Those curved parts need to be reenforced with some little bars between the curved parts, i will do that at a later stage.



The beginning of the front netcutter on the bow, it's pretty basic, only had to add the contruction which hold the upperpart.



Dryfitting the netcutter on the tower, all other parts of the tower have to be modified.


In the past i've builded the tower in such way that i can take all parts off by simply unscrewing two bolts.


Added the rivets which holds the netcutter to the tower, those rivets are glued tight from the inside of the tower, the rivets on the hull are only glued at one side, giving me the possibility to lift the tower without any problems.


The new configuration to the type B conversion, there's loads of work more, but i've got me a beginning.



The new netcutter on the bow, secured with 1 mm rivets and glued down, that new stringer pointing out will be a part of the new bowpart which protects the torpedo tubes.
For now i've got to add some details and start thinking how to build the new protector of the torpedo tubes, from what i've seen on the pictures this will be interesting to build.


Manfred.

[trout]

It already an interesting build. Great work Manfred!

[MFR1964]

Thanks Tom,
I have to change the rudders anyway, she steers like a pig with the old rudders, so rebuilding the boat to a B type, which has the new rudder configuration, is for me a no brainer, let's see if this will work out,
this weekend some udates on the progress, stay tuned

Manfred

[MFR1964]

Well it was refreshing talking about print technoligy, let's show what can be build by using some copper plate and the soldering iron,





Like the type A, the type B has a perosope protector, it's also used in conjuction with the front netcutter, those edges on the protector will support the cutting of the net.



Also placed the bars on the front net cutter, still have to bend it more into shape.



This one has a story, i made this as a test to see if i could use the remaining old stringers, on this moment SWMBO walked into the cave and started to laugh, giving me the comment, you can do better, she gave me the idea to make this work.



The idea she came up with was, use the curved parts of the front net cutter, and it worked, never tell the wife she has good idea's, so this was all made by using my brillaint brains.



In the end the nose part was build from 5 pieces, giving me a sound base to add details in the future.


I still had to come up with a other way to fasten the front part.


This way i can take the front part off, in the future it will be permanent fastened.



Made a make shift key to fasten the front part.



It was used to tighten the new screw part which will hold the front part.



Seen from the front, it will stay there permanently, now i can start researching which parts there will be placed at the front part, and what other changes i have to make to the hull if needed.

Manfred.