Today's building

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Bob is creating for me a 3d printed scribing template expected next week. In mean time starting on the masts (fun!). Bob printed the two largest masts, a humongous ECM mast and a snorkel mast. Now starting on the observation search scope. made of brass rod and rectangular tubing, CA Glue, Aluminum 3/8-inch foil sharp tubing, Bondo.

I will finish with 600 fine sandpaper n the morning, (this was posted last night) and give it final coat of primer.

Then liquid mask the leopard spots. Paint the turquoise mast color overall. Then remove the mask exposing the gray splotches, Paint lens a dark ink blue, then a final clear flat coat then on to next mast... Measurment's in photos in millimeters. Blue tape around mast fairing just a guide in shaping the top overhang to correct shape and size.

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Torpedo tube shutters

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Steven,

Most likely one of my real stupid questions! Where it says "No Tug" What would be the reason for no tugs at those two points?

Your progress really looks great!

Rob
"Firemen can stand the heat."

Not stupid.at all. There are sonar transducers located in those spots. Bob Martin did a good job identifying & adding them in the 3D printing program.

[rwtdiver]

Steven,

Most likely one of my real stupid questions! Where it says "No Tug" What would be the reason for no tugs at those two points?

Your progress really looks great!

Rob
"Firemen can stand the heat."

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Counter-measures hid in the sail? Makes re-stocking an easy matter. No punts, no cranes, no Diver's. I like it. Of course... German's!

David

That was my thought too Dave. Looking to see if the other HDW designed subs the 214, 212, the Ula's. the future German & Norwegian 212CD's a much bigger & longer (similar in size the Dolphin 2 & 3 will have too?

These boats probably don't do many high-speed transits so flow noise isn't probably much of an issue I would think. If so, then why not make restocking of the countermeasures easily accessible. Practical Germans, or the Israeli Navy their client requested this way.

I watched a fascinating YouTube video on the French Mirage III fighter in Israeli service. Fortunately, for the Israelis and the French too, the Israelis really test their aircraft as practical weapons. The Israeli discovered the cannons gun radars where a mess & so inaccurate shooting was almost impossible. One Israeli pilot and their airspace industry resolved the issue in months fortunately in time before the 1967 war. It shows the great pragmaticism with their modifications and shared it back tot the French. An Israeli Sarhak Zeroing Team in the ir Air Force came up with a simple effective solution.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m8Mp1RKh1mg

Why didn't the French realize this? In their defense, the original French radar sight had been designed to take out larger bombers and ground targets.

The French Chauchat machine gun in WW1 was such a piece of ****, Americans hated them There were piles of them abandoned along roads ditched by the Americans, They jammed constantly, too delicate to operate in the mud, they were built by hand and replacement parts never fit together. Fortunately, the Yanks had the BAR!

On the other hand, the French 75 mm artillery gun was one of the best in the world at the same time. Reliable accurate, high rate of fire.

The French battleship Richelieu was a brilliant efficient design, better gunned arrangement, concentrating its citadel armor efficiently. Far better protected, faster. Compared to her German contemporary Bismarck, the German ship was an inefficient design, Overweight, Its anti-aircraft was terrible with too many different calibers of secondary guns, (they couldn't even shoot down a single very slow swordfish torpedo plane attacking it. The armor was distributed less efficiently. Rodney's 16" shells blew clear through Bismarck, and the dives on the wreck show it. This was a lot due to the treaty of Versailles. Germany's WW1 battleship designers' skills and experience was gone and had to be brought back from scratch. The white supremist websites talk about how the Bismarck was superior to everything! She was a formidable ship, but in a 1 on 1 fight the Richelieu would kick its ass. 7 out of 10 times I'd put my money on Richelieu....lol.

Contrast the French super destroyers, still the fastest destroyers ever built 45 nots in combat displacement! Still wow me. But 45% of the vessel's tonnage was devoted to fuel! The square cube law, a lot of shaft horsepower to say the least. But their powerful 5.5-inch guns were single purpose weapons, overly designed & complex, and a slower rate of fire. 5.5 shells are heavy to lift.

Anyway, like I said, hit and miss.

[He Who Shall Not Be Named]

Counter-measures hid in the sail? Makes re-stocking an easy matter. No punts, no cranes, no Diver's. I like it. Of course... German's!

David

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The opening for that forward Monster ECM mast sized & positioned. It will make the retractable doors soon.

Awaiting 3/8-inch k & S foil shaped tubing now for the other masts. Redoing top of snorkel head from flat to faintly curved top match the sail. I look forward to making pericopes, enjoy making those. A radar mast, two more ECM masts. two center line periscope masts search & attack. port starboard lights, counter measure ejectors (on the starboard side the four openings).

[DrSchmidt]

Looks good!

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From the primordial slime emerges a shape.

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Three of four packages arrived today.
Delivered were the new dry Transfers from Rigo (draft numbers and 'no tug' hull markings. An air line connector (looks like an IV line connector) from Bob Martin, And a new template for scribing in the new Torpedo tube Shutters.

Correcting mistakes or making adjustments to parts printed. The Dolphin 2's have rectangular doors in their sails for some of the masts and need to corrected accordingly. Its enjoyable working with the model parts.

Make the changes, place soldered brass parts ca glue - align, Bondo, warm dinner, watch Star Trek TNG and sand in the morning when dry overnight. Life is good.

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Todays stuff. Ordered Dry traansfers. Calle could not print said too small draft numbers.

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One color light gray Draft and no tug hul markings about $100.00





Always make extras for mistakes.

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Hull printed in various sections as you can see. Finishing shaping bow plane 'wing roots.'. Adding new forward escape main deck hatch. The hard aluminum will make a sharp defined guide sanding, Made scribing pattern for two hatches. Puttied her up. inserted styrene scribed hatch before CA gluing to deck. Reporting here as the putty dries. The drawn forward arrows keeps each part oriented which way things are to go. (old guy here) Puttied up original 212 sub hatch.

Bow area has some uneven ness in 3D printing from removing a bow mine sonar fairing since the program of a German 212 was the basis of this Dolphin hull.

The torpedo tube shutters will all be re done too. 10 tubes! The shutters are same symmetrical port and starboard. The starboard 26-inch tubes (four) show in drawings the same size shutters as the other 6 -21-inch tubes.

She is armed to the teeth. Popeye and Harpoon missiles, probably a anti helicopter missile too - a naval variant of an Israeli Iron Dome small point defense missile? Atlas Elektronik DM2A3 torpedoes. Decoys and remote autonomous vehicles.

Steve

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Today more parts arrived from Bob and McMaster Carr. Aluminum 43 mm outside diameter spacers from McMaster ordered Christmas day. Finally arrived. Bob's float value for Dolphin sail & low-pressure bow system arrived as promised too. Thanks Bob.

Adjusting the bow plane roots with styrene and Bondo putty. The photo shows still original location of forward deck hatch. New location will be 5 inches roughly after between bow planes and leading edge of sail. Using the spacer rings out lined area to counter sink grinding away with hand piece. Will putty and level the slightly lower forward part printed and once dry shape area. Then will add aluminum rings for DSRV McCann rescue Bell flat pad around the new forward hatch location. The aluminum t will make a sharp clear line for the pad at edges of roll down of deck and be flush with deck down centerline portion. Studying all available photos, seems the docking skirt flush ring is only present on the forward hatch. Some internet drawings on Dolphin1 group shows two. But studying those too, there seems to be only one around forward casing hatch. Bit still a hatch for scribing in for the aft casing around the engineering spaces.

The other feature different is a shark's tooth WLR-9 (or WLR- like) sonar present on casing forward on the Dolphin 1's but absent on the Dolphin 2's, the subject of building thread.

I don't like McMaster Carr. they are steep in price and slow in delivery. But if its the only place that has the part I need, I guess I have to swallow hard.

Steve

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Getting the stern taper down. Adjusted 3 D printed defuser length.

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Adding styrene extensions to bow plane 'wing roots'. Color test on masts. Color Rust- oleum 'Vintage Teal'. Isn't Bobs mast detail beautiful?