1/96 SWM KILO kit soon to be available

[trout]

Thank you! I see what you did. Must learn more.......

[He Who Shall Not Be Named]

David,, Looking at the pictures (and yes it is well crafted work), how do you pour the resin into the sail. Do you fill the top and side mold then press the plug into that pushing the extra out? Or is there a pour screw I am missing?
I so enjoy seeing your photos!

Hey, Tom!

The tool walls and core were assembled together before the pour. Once assembled, resin was poured through the big sprue channel cut into the base of the core element. In this shot you can make out the punch used to cut out the sprue and vent channels through which resin is introduced and displaced air escapes.



The resin is poured into the assembled tool with the sail cavity up-side-down. The sail tool is in foreground, the tail-cone tool is just behind it.


After the resin cures, the tool is disassembled and the cast resin sail pulled away from the tool cavities and core to reveal the desired hollow part.



And that's the name of that tune!

David

[trout]

David,, Looking at the pictures (and yes it is well crafted work), how do you pour the resin into the sail. Do you fill the top and side mold then press the plug into that pushing the extra out? Or is there a pour screw I am missing?
I so enjoy seeing your photos!

[He Who Shall Not Be Named]

Beautiful work David. I am not a big fan of this particular sub but the pictures of your work and the overall craftsmanship is awe-inspiring. Well done.

Thank you sir. You are a keen observer of the obvious. I am indeed magnificent …...…. …… not to mention good looking, charming, and God-like in all things.

David

[Groot689]

Beautiful work David. I am not a big fan of this particular sub but the pictures of your work and the overall craftsmanship is awe-inspiring. Well done.

[He Who Shall Not Be Named]

The beauty of your work makes me weep, Dave. I'm really stoked for this kit to get finished up.

Yeah, Bob, me too. How often Ellie has had to remind me to stop being such a weepy ***** and to buck up and get back to work!

Hopefully I'll get those KILO fittings packages off to you later next week. Then on to the next SWM 1/96 r/c submarine kit on our list.

[RCSubGuy]

The beauty of your work makes me weep, Dave. I'm really stoked for this kit to get finished up.

[He Who Shall Not Be Named]

Finally, started casting parts:



















David

[HardRock]

Put me down for one please - I'm definitely unwashed!

[He Who Shall Not Be Named]

Thet thar's starting to look like a boat!

Almost there, Boss. I've already started resin casting the big resin pieces that go with your Small World Models 1/96 KILO kit.

The shots below show the end of the tooling work closed out this morning. I spent the later part of the day casting up three sets of parts.











Ran out of rubber, so have more on order -- need that for the spin-casting tool that will be used to make all the white-metal kit parts. Rubber should be here in time for me to complete the little masters. Could have all work wrapped up by the end of next weekend.

Long overdue to get these excellent SWM kits out to the great unwashed.

David

[RCSubGuy]

Thet thar's starting to look like a boat!

[He Who Shall Not Be Named]

David

[He Who Shall Not Be Named]

"Never leave your Mates behind"?

LOL, Scott. Can't beat that!

David

[HardRock]

"Never leave your Mates behind"?

[He Who Shall Not Be Named]

OK. Enough of this model making stuff. I have a much more serious question. Why is there a naked guy on this boat?

I bust my ass outlining the intricacies of advanced model building; carefully chronicling the activity with camera, scripting a comprehensive narrative and …

... What do you idiots focus on??????

(what was it Churchill once said about the RN?).

David