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The detailing and crisp scribing are amazing! You are a machine!
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Get to me what you got when you've completed your research on that slick looking little race-horse of a submarine. I lost touch with Wayne about the same time me and the SC engaged in a very ugly divorce. Can't help you with that guy. I do cruise the forums, and I have not seen any activity from him since those dark days. Once he got back from Russia (by the skin of his teeth) he pulled a Snowden on us.
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With exeption of the railing and safe guard all parts are on.......next up is the transportation box and in water trimming.
Practical wisdom is only to be learned in the school of experience.
"Samuel Smiles"Comment
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What an accurate and crisp job you did of the scribing. Oh, almost forgot ...
... I HATE YOU!
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All I can say is Magnificent!Comment
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Thks
WIP on the transportation box.......I made it almost exactly as per David's guideline I found on the forum (monkey see monkey do). http://forum.sub-driver.com/forum/ge...96-seawolf-kit post #4.
Practical wisdom is only to be learned in the school of experience.
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Fabricated securing arrangement upper and lower hull
Connected fwd dive planes
Finished transportation box, every compartment is provided with his own vent holes
Yes on the pictures the towed array pod is not in line with the centerline of the sub....don't worry she is not yet fixated.
Will do some IW trimming this evening.
Grtz,
Bart
Practical wisdom is only to be learned in the school of experience.
"Samuel Smiles"Comment
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Bart,
You are a craftsman. From that outstanding Akula to the box it is being put in, you show a great ability that surpasses most of the RC submariners out there (myself included). You are an inspiration.
Peace,
tomIf you can cut, drill, saw, hit things and swear a lot, you're well on the way to building a working model sub.Comment
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Last edited by bwi 971; 09-17-2016, 04:15 AM.Practical wisdom is only to be learned in the school of experience.
"Samuel Smiles"Comment
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Tom: I was getting ready to delete your fawning and lip-stick smeared love letter to Bart. But, as I once again scrolled through his primer-gray AKULA pictures I found myself nodding in agreement with you. Therefore, I permit you to live yet another day.
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Thank you HWSNBN, (bowing low), I am thankful for every day I am given. I will also discontinue the use of lipstick, although I did like that shade.If you can cut, drill, saw, hit things and swear a lot, you're well on the way to building a working model sub.Comment
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Great job Bart; if only it hadn't involved Tom wearing lipstick...........Comment
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And how I'm supposed to get some sleep without terrible nightmares…..Even when Starring at the water in the bathtub doing trimming work I see Tom’s reflection THKS guy’s…..this will take a while to fade.
A quick in-between WIP
Empty ballast;
Put as much weight in her as I could add foam. Had to put the foam all the way up to the waterline to get her stability right. It's very good now, self-righting is very quick, she is very stable in the water.
In ballast:
was almost perfect without doing anything......her ass was slightly to light......she was floating on the towed array pod, I have to make the towed array pod free flooding…..good thing I didn’t glued the sucker in place yet.
Grtz,
Bart
Practical wisdom is only to be learned in the school of experience.
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A live WIP,
Pod is free flooding now.....in ballast trim is good....although I'm not able to blow the ballast tank empty.....will do some investigation by elimination of possibilities.
grtz,
Bart
Practical wisdom is only to be learned in the school of experience.
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