Hi Gents,
Greatings from Belgium.
I have started with my long (I have ordered the plans in 1997 from deep sea designs “Greg Sharpe”) planned scratch building project of an akula submarine almost two years ago. In the nineties some names were all over the web with a lot of information David Merriman was such a name. In 2006 I have stumbled upon a very interesting project of Jerome Simon. In 2010 I have purchased Wayne Frey’s book “Russian Submarines” witch is also a great help for my built.
As I have a family to take care of and a full time job the progress of my built will be slow but continuous, furthermore the appetite to build has to be there, for me it has to be relaxation not another stress building nerve wracking thing. No appetite no Build!!.
Last week I lost the appetite to built (It always returns after some weeks) so this seemed a good opportunity to start a thread on this forum that I discovered only a few months back.
I have two running on another forums….so why another one? Well I want to share ideas with as many people as possible. All the crafts and tricks I use for building my sub I learned through the WWW from other people. I believe I have to give something back in return. Furthermore I realy enjoy this forum.
I will mention some people in my thread where I got ideas from, not to advertise for them but I strongly believe in Referencing, no more no less.
As I made already some substantial progress with the built I will divide the elapsed time into small chapters till the “as is” situ.is reached.
Grtz,
Bart
Greatings from Belgium.
I have started with my long (I have ordered the plans in 1997 from deep sea designs “Greg Sharpe”) planned scratch building project of an akula submarine almost two years ago. In the nineties some names were all over the web with a lot of information David Merriman was such a name. In 2006 I have stumbled upon a very interesting project of Jerome Simon. In 2010 I have purchased Wayne Frey’s book “Russian Submarines” witch is also a great help for my built.
As I have a family to take care of and a full time job the progress of my built will be slow but continuous, furthermore the appetite to build has to be there, for me it has to be relaxation not another stress building nerve wracking thing. No appetite no Build!!.
Last week I lost the appetite to built (It always returns after some weeks) so this seemed a good opportunity to start a thread on this forum that I discovered only a few months back.
I have two running on another forums….so why another one? Well I want to share ideas with as many people as possible. All the crafts and tricks I use for building my sub I learned through the WWW from other people. I believe I have to give something back in return. Furthermore I realy enjoy this forum.
I will mention some people in my thread where I got ideas from, not to advertise for them but I strongly believe in Referencing, no more no less.
As I made already some substantial progress with the built I will divide the elapsed time into small chapters till the “as is” situ.is reached.
Grtz,
Bart
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