Japanese Sen Toku I-401 Submarine Build

[rwtdiver]

Sinkalot your 3D model looks good!

I finished all the Con Tower/Aircraft storage area!



This Con Tower/Aircraft Storage section has a total length of 20"! At this point I may put it together, primer, and do the detail fabrication while the rest of the submarine hull is being printed out!

Rob
"Firemen can stand the heat"

[Sinksalot]

This is the 3D model. I added a built in deck to the design. I still need to make the holes for the dive planes, rudder and shafts

[rwtdiver]

This is a print of my own version of the I400 in ASA filament. This is just 6 parts of the lower half. 1/72 scale, i am currently printing this version.

Nice work! I like your bulkhead supports, that not only give added support to the hull, but if you use a cylinder for your WTC you have support for it also! Nice design!

Rob
"Firemen can stand the heat"

[Sinksalot]

This is a print of my own version of the I400 in ASA filament. This is just 6 parts of the lower half. 1/72 scale, i am currently printing this version.

[rwtdiver]

Yea i been in love with this sub for years. Here is my first print of the lower hull, I think this was back in 2019. I was learning when I make this print. I finish the whole print and it was RC ready. But some one offered me some cash for the print for a static non rc build. So I sold it. I went on to make a 2nd better version, then a 3rd. Then I decide to model my own version of the I400 and have been working on that.

Sinksalot,

What scale is your i-400? Looks good!

Rob
"Firemen can stand the heat"

[Sinksalot]

Yea i been in love with this sub for years. Here is my first print of the lower hull, I think this was back in 2019. I was learning when I make this print. I finish the whole print and it was RC ready. But some one offered me some cash for the print for a static non rc build. So I sold it. I went on to make a 2nd better version, then a 3rd. Then I decide to model my own version of the I400 and have been working on that.

[rwtdiver]

OK! Back to the build!

I have started the build on the upper sail/con tower components!





I still have 20 more hull sections top/bottom to print out (approximately 140 hours to go) My thought was while the hull sections are printing I will start on the brass railing and detail work on the tower sections!

Rob
"Firemen can stand the heat"

[rwtdiver]

Trouble is, all this technology comes to a screaming halt when and if the Grid goes down. Those with skills will know how to shave spokes and assemble a wheel. Those who don't will become the servants of those who can make things without the aid of electricity. People don't appreciate how fragile our modern society has become.

We've painted ourselves into a corner by digitizing almost everything; the failure mode of high-tech is immediate and complete. Mechanics will find ways to manipulate their environment to their will, for survival or profit.

You, as others of transitional generation, have both skills. One or two generations from now no one will be able to use their hands and brain. Don't you guy's see it coming? Or, am I just a crazed old coot who pines too much for the, 'good old days'?

David

David!

You are 100% correct! Any one of our so called adversaries (or our own Sun) could take our grid down in an instant! Then what!! There would be a total breakdown in our society as we know it! Don't know about you, but I grew up off the grid. One room shack with coal stove for my parents, an old WWII Army tent for me and my two older brothers, and OH yes don't forget the glorious outhouse!! Those where the days David! Could us old timers go back to those old times and survive? You bet we could!!!

Rob
"Firemen can stand the heat"

[He Who Shall Not Be Named]

David!

I agree with you 100%! I to have a real problem with how that some people are so wound up with there hand held devices! My god! Pick up a book and read, build a model!



I have built models from scratch using balsa wood and glue!! But I am still open to new ways of building and learning new skills (Robot or otherwise) 3D printing is not as easy as it looks! It takes time and a real learning curve to achieve perfection or at least excellence, just like model building from scratch! I like to look at Steve H. and what he has done with a 3D printer, not bad bad for a Robot tool!

Rob
"Firemen can stand the heat"

Trouble is, all this technology comes to a screaming halt when and if the Grid goes down. Those with skills will know how to shave spokes and assemble a wheel. Those who don't will become the servants of those who can make things without the aid of electricity. People don't appreciate how fragile our modern society has become.

We've painted ourselves into a corner by digitizing almost everything; the failure mode of high-tech is immediate and complete. Mechanics will find ways to manipulate their environment to their will, for survival or profit.

You, as others of transitional generation, have both skills. One or two generations from now no one will be able to use their hands and brain. Don't you guy's see it coming? Or, am I just a crazed old coot who pines too much for the, 'good old days'?

David

[rwtdiver]

172mm wing span
165mm length

no folded wing option.

same on 1/48


don't get side tracked.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=brNhywVypCE

cheapsub,

I hear you! I am to old to worry about how to build something and what to use!! I just love building period!!

Thank you for the information on the Seiran kit measurements! I believe that kit would fill the bill!

Rob
"Firemen can stand the heat"

[rwtdiver]

We used to talk intelligently to one another in groups. The 'wave of the future' now has us arrayed around the dinner table, each with a hand-held device in their hands, head bowed down, doing their damnest to not have any interaction with the outside world or the guy at each shoulder.

Count the number of people walking, sitting, driving, or waiting in line with a 'device' in their face.

Our instrumentalities are doing our thinking and tasks now, not us. We humans are rushing head-long into a transition from proud Machinist -- with a vast array of shop skills and institutional knowledge -- to simple bit-changers/chip-sweepers/'Enter' button pushers.

What resources will the individual have at his disposal when the electrons stop flowing?

Pushing a mouse around does not a Craftsman make.


David
One Small Voice (with apology to Ellsworth Toohey)

David!

I agree with you 100%! I to have a real problem with how that some people are so wound up with there hand held devices! My god! Pick up a book and read, build a model!



I have built models from scratch using balsa wood and glue!! But I am still open to new ways of building and learning new skills (Robot or otherwise) 3D printing is not as easy as it looks! It takes time and a real learning curve to achieve perfection or at least excellence, just like model building from scratch! I like to look at Steve H. and what he has done with a 3D printer, not bad bad for a Robot tool!

Rob
"Firemen can stand the heat"

[cheapsub]

172mm wing span
165mm length

no folded wing option.

same on 1/48


don't get side tracked.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=brNhywVypCE

[He Who Shall Not Be Named]

We used to talk intelligently to one another in groups. The 'wave of the future' now has us arrayed around the dinner table, each with a hand-held device in their hands, head bowed down, doing their damnest to not have any interaction with the outside world or the guy at each shoulder.

Count the number of people walking, sitting, driving, or waiting in line with a 'device' in their face.

Our instrumentalities are doing our thinking and tasks now, not us. We humans are rushing head-long into a transition from proud Machinist -- with a vast array of shop skills and institutional knowledge -- to simple bit-changers/chip-sweepers/'Enter' button pushers.

What resources will the individual have at his disposal when the electrons stop flowing?

Pushing a mouse around does not a Craftsman make.


David
One Small Voice (with apology to Ellsworth Toohey)

[rwtdiver]

Just don't call it model-building.

David

David & coryhenry!

For the sake of not letting this get out of hand, I have to agree with you both! There are those of us that will never achieve the master building qualities that David has applied himself to over the many years that he has been a model maker! But as coryhenry says, digital (I am going to use the term modeling) will be the wave of the future! They both have there place, so it's my take both methods or any new methods should be embraced!

Rob
"Firemen can stand the heat"

[He Who Shall Not Be Named]

Of course I could! I could also be using a horse and wagon but instead choose to embrace new technologies :) . Don't discount the effort required to make a digital model.

Now back to the thread

Just don't call it model-building.

David