today's work

[He Who Shall Not Be Named]

Great Benny Hill impression

One of the idiots I was running with caught me napping and snapped this with my own camera (which I foolishly left on my worktable). What an ass-hole!

[redboat219]

Great Benny Hill impression

[He Who Shall Not Be Named]

Just got back yesterday from the two-day event. Perfect weather, and a near perfect venue for scale r/c boat and submarine running. Thanks to the incredible work of Dave Hampton and his crew of the Indianapolis Admirals r/c model boat club for this most enjoyable fun run. It was good to hook up with old friend, Paul Doman again.

[He Who Shall Not Be Named]

[He Who Shall Not Be Named]

[He Who Shall Not Be Named]

Thanks David.....

btw. Im going to sell one or two of the remianing Nautilus kits soon. Just finishing some missing parts.

I continue to rave about how well this model submarine performs, both on the surface and submerged. Here's a short video of my boat assembled from this kit:

https://youtu.be/zRdQ-h9sORE

[DrSchmidt]

Thanks David.....

btw. Im going to sell one or two of the remianing Nautilus kits soon. Just finishing some missing parts.

[He Who Shall Not Be Named]

I agree...the tail cone of my U.S.S. Nautilus is made of GRP. Similar setup as the XXI: Prop shafts running through stabilizer fins, control plane bases, tiny radii. Takes forever to make one....

To buttress what the good Doctor says about the tight confines and small radius points to the type-21/571 kit, here are some shots so demonstrating -- His stern is GRP... a very tough material to work with (successfully) with deep draft and complicated geometry. This particular unit is one of his NAUTILUS kits I secured through a barter arrangement. Runs great!

[DrSchmidt]

I agree...the tail cone of my U.S.S. Nautilus is made of GRP. Similar setup as the XXI: Prop shafts running through stabilizer fins, control plane bases, tiny radii. Takes forever to make one....

[Davjacva]

Ellie and I were 'production' guys; we employed materials and methods that balanced suitability of material to time taken to produce the product. Time is money. (Sometimes she would quip on the phone, to a casual caller: "We're busy making money here... keep it short!". The perfect gatekeeper).

The involved and tight geometry of sail and tail-cone made hollow-casting the production process of choice, though GRP layup would have rendered much stronger structures. Yes, I have on rare occasions done glass layup within resin casting tools, with success, but doing so with such deep draft and tight radius forms requires plenty of gel-coat, followed by light-weight glass, backed up with heavier weave glass -- all very time consuming, but producing exceptionally strong parts, but parts that take forever to produce.





D&E Miniatures started as a resin casting service -- we played to that strength throughout our run.

David

Ellies got that look on her face in both photos that say's someone's in for 4 1/2' tall ass-whoopin'. She'd spit on the ground every time another certain model producer/ product guy's name was mentioned. It was so bad for so long that it became the long-running butt of jokes. Wonderful person and we all miss her.

[He Who Shall Not Be Named]

Does the driver give you the ability to vary the brightness of the LEDs or just full on?

Yes. I yanked the unit from an LED 'light table'.

[redboat219]

Does the driver give you the ability to vary the brightness of the LEDs or just full on?

[He Who Shall Not Be Named]

All them little slots to file out on a 1/96th XXI, yikes!

I hear you. But, not too hard if you remove meat from the inside of the hull till the limber and flood-drain holes are revealed.

[Subculture]

All them little slots to file out on a 1/96th XXI, yikes!

[JHapprich]

... and with little fairy-wings I can clean my gutters without a ladder.

Yap! Speed-casting resin is ALWAYS so much FUN!!!