today's work

[He Who Shall Not Be Named]

[rwtdiver]

Nice work David!

Always a pleasure to watch the Master at work! Airbrushing and painting might be a good subject matter for DiveTribe meeting? Just a thought...

Rob
"Firemen can stand the heat."

[Ken_NJ]

Yea he does OK.

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[Das Boot]

Did the actual Blueback have messenger buoys? Because every photo I’ve seen does not show them. Were they at one time on the boat and removed later? This photo shows where the bouy should be, along the safety track and in front of the retractable bollards at the stern. I ended up doing away with mine.

[He Who Shall Not Be Named]

Did the actual Blueback have messenger buoys? Because every photo I’ve seen does not show them. Were they at one time on the boat and removed later? This photo shows where the bouy should be, along the safety track and in front of the retractable bollards at the stern. I ended up doing away with mine.

I honestly don't know. The BLUEBACK TAB general-arrangement drawings show the buoy and cable reel, so I went ahead and am completing the model so configured. Also, I strive to make an r/c type model submarine as 'colorful' as possible to help with visibility while operating submerged, and that internation-orange buoy fairing is most colorful and an opportunity I just could not pass up.

[Das Boot]

I honestly don't know. The BLUEBACK TAB general-arrangement drawings show the buoy and cable reel, so I went ahead and am completing the model so configured. Also, I strive to make an r/c type model submarine as 'colorful' as possible to help with visibility while operating submerged, and that internation-orange buoy fairing is most colorful and an opportunity I just could not pass up.

Yes, the orange does help keep an eye on it.

[He Who Shall Not Be Named]

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[Das Boot]

Dave, I may have missed you saying, but why are there two CO2 emergency tanks in this WTC? I know you have a reason, but I’m stumped.

[He Who Shall Not Be Named]

Dave, I may have missed you saying, but why are there two CO2 emergency tanks in this WTC? I know you have a reason, but I’m stumped.

One is the SAS ballast sub-system safety float-valve. The other is the emergency on-board bottle -- it contains butane-methane, not CO2.

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[Das Boot]

Well, I believe that’s your masterpiece.Well done.

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Well, I believe that’s your masterpiece.Well done.

Thanks. I'm totally sick of it by now; time to move onto the next victim in line... finish trimming Hoffman's Type-21

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