Setting the 1/72 Type VII Rudder Post Gear

[redboat219]

David,
In the fittings kit for the 1/72 Revell Type VII you fabricated a pair of semi-circular gear segment that intermesh for turning both rudders simultaneously. Can you post the proper way to set both gears?

Thanks.

[He Who Shall Not Be Named]

David,
In the fittings kit for the 1/72 Revell Type VII you fabricated a pair of semi-circular gear segment that intermesh for turning both rudders simultaneously. Can you post the proper way to set both gears?

Thanks.

[redboat219]

Is there a particular angle to those black lines on the gears marked S and P?
From the photos they look like they're set at 45° from a line running between the 2 rudder post.

[gantu]

http://www.offshoreattack.de/uboot%20-%20Kopie.htm

https://www.wettringer-modellbauforum.de/forum/index.php?page=Thread&threadID=51304

[gantu]

https://www.modelboats.co.uk/news/article/dynamic-diving/520#

[gantu]

https://www.smc-husum.de/bauberichte/baubericht-u-995/

https://www.rcshipyard.com/uboot-viic/

[He Who Shall Not Be Named]

Is there a particular angle to those black lines on the gears marked S and P?
From the photos they look like they're set at 45° from a line running between the 2 rudder post.

Show me something you have actually built and I'll play with you, Romel. Till then enough with the endless steam of (sometimes worth-while) questions to me. If and when you encounter a real model-building/kit-assembly problem you are ACTUALLY dealing with I'll be there for you. Till then, take your seat at the back of the class and let the actual doer's out there drink from my endless fount of knowledge.

David

[redboat219]

Whoa, Aunt Flo. I'm just asking so I can take notes for future references for the kit and fittings I got.

Better to ask it now or would you prefer I do it later...

[Monahan Steam Models]

Whoa, Aunt Flo. I'm just asking so I can take notes for future references for the kit and fittings I got.

Better to ask it now or would you prefer I do it later...

Romel,

Better to ask now….. You wouldn’t want the ouija board thingy taking flight suddenly and ending up where the sun doesn’t shine later….

Just sayin

Nick

[He Who Shall Not Be Named]

Whoa, Aunt Flo. I'm just asking so I can take notes for future references for the kit and fittings I got.

Better to ask it now or would you prefer I do it later...

Hit me up when you have a project underway, in hand, that is on your table in pieces and requiring real-time assistance. Enough naval-gazing, planning, preparing, thinking, researching, and all that other happy horse-**** that has nothing to do with the physical PROCESS of kit-assembly/model building. Time to accomplish something tangible. For the last ten years you've done nothing but spin your wheels and take up space. DO SOMETHING, damnit!

Poop or get off the pot!

David

[Sam Victory]

I think Mr. Merriman has a good point that theory is always for practice. I am afraid that if we always stay in the theoretical part and do not go to practice, then it is impossible to make good works. Without knowing the exact internal dimensions of the submarine kit (or having measured and planned it), the design sketches are likely to look reasonable, but there is a chance that it actually doesn't match the kit. So I think it is possible to have a submarine kit (or a very detailed drawing of the submarine with the scale you want) and then go back and design the structure we want. Of course, everything done before is to lay the foundation for the subsequent modeling, which must be followed by practical exercises to make a real model.

V

[He Who Shall Not Be Named]

I think Mr. Merriman has a good point that theory is always for practice. I am afraid that if we always stay in the theoretical part and do not go to practice, then it is impossible to make good works. Without knowing the exact internal dimensions of the submarine kit (or having measured and planned it), the design sketches are likely to look reasonable, but there is a chance that it actually doesn't match the kit. So I think it is possible to have a submarine kit (or a very detailed drawing of the submarine with the scale you want) and then go back and design the structure we want. Of course, everything done before is to lay the foundation for the subsequent modeling, which must be followed by practical exercises to make a real model.

V

To Sam's point: We are not the Krell (yet); we can not just think a physical thing into existence. We have to make it. That means getting off your ass and start swinging sharp tools around with reckless abandon.

Too much think'n, not enough swing'n!

David
Poet and Don't Know it

[Das Boot]

The last Krell died 2,000 centuries ago.

[He Who Shall Not Be Named]

the last krell died 2,000 centuries ago.

nerd!.... nerd!!!!!!

[Das Boot]

nerd!.... nerd!!!!!!

Guilty! Guilty! My evil self is at that door, and I have no power to stop it!