I've been meaning to do this for a long while now, but I am finally making the time. Here are the various working drawings I came up with -- (cross sections and all; holding nothing back) -- when I built a static display model of the "CSS Manassas," a few years ago.
(Edit -- Some pics of that static model are now up, in a builder's thread I just started. See link immediately below, to see the finished model.)
For those who don't already know (which is almost everyone, I'd assume?) this stuff I'm gonna post below was all original analytical work that I did by myself; and drawing work I did myself; and so on. This was basically the "pre-build" work that had to be done, before I could build myself a static display model in 1:48 scale, of a delightfully obscure, not-quite-fully-submerged boat which took part in several naval battles during the American Civil War. The model was one that ended up being written up, for publication in the first volume of "Steampunk Modeller". (From the folks who put out the series of "Sci-Fi & Fantasy Modeller" publications, from England.) You can see more about the actual model that I built, in that article ... and a bunch of text, describing that build-up and/or the references I used ... but be warned that you'll probably have to search via eBay or whatever to obtain a copy of that publication; as that special issue has sold out a couple of times now, since its first publication around 2011. (It's still out there. As many copies as were sold over the last few years, it shouldn't be "Printed Unobtainium".)
Anyway ... comments always welcome ... but keep in mind that if you wildly disagree with the analysis I've done, on the historical original, that (a) it'd be helpful if you read the article first, to know the why's behind what I did; and (b) the boat's shape and details, as described below, could always be used in "fictional form". The dive planes or fins, for instance, were tacked onto the drawings in just such a fictional way. The real boat may not have been able to submerge itself, fully, and then surface again ... but there's no reason an R/C boat couldn't do just that.
I'm all for sharing stuff like this ... and will just say that if anyone builds an R/C boat from these drawings, be sure to post a builders thread!
-- Ward Shrake --
(Edit -- Some pics of that static model are now up, in a builder's thread I just started. See link immediately below, to see the finished model.)
For those who don't already know (which is almost everyone, I'd assume?) this stuff I'm gonna post below was all original analytical work that I did by myself; and drawing work I did myself; and so on. This was basically the "pre-build" work that had to be done, before I could build myself a static display model in 1:48 scale, of a delightfully obscure, not-quite-fully-submerged boat which took part in several naval battles during the American Civil War. The model was one that ended up being written up, for publication in the first volume of "Steampunk Modeller". (From the folks who put out the series of "Sci-Fi & Fantasy Modeller" publications, from England.) You can see more about the actual model that I built, in that article ... and a bunch of text, describing that build-up and/or the references I used ... but be warned that you'll probably have to search via eBay or whatever to obtain a copy of that publication; as that special issue has sold out a couple of times now, since its first publication around 2011. (It's still out there. As many copies as were sold over the last few years, it shouldn't be "Printed Unobtainium".)
Anyway ... comments always welcome ... but keep in mind that if you wildly disagree with the analysis I've done, on the historical original, that (a) it'd be helpful if you read the article first, to know the why's behind what I did; and (b) the boat's shape and details, as described below, could always be used in "fictional form". The dive planes or fins, for instance, were tacked onto the drawings in just such a fictional way. The real boat may not have been able to submerge itself, fully, and then surface again ... but there's no reason an R/C boat couldn't do just that.
I'm all for sharing stuff like this ... and will just say that if anyone builds an R/C boat from these drawings, be sure to post a builders thread!
-- Ward Shrake --
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