Best way to cut acrylic glass sheet material?

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Working on the acrylic covers to get a nice edge to the hull parts. So far so good....

Meanwhile: I pulled the second part out of the coning...

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Started with the conning tower. I again drilled open the holes in the decks, then I opened the aft deck and covered the opening with a PE deck. Again...

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I have cast...that much I know

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Actually I hought a while abut the control planes. The original ones were very thin, and to properly reporduce those in that scale....3D-printing is the...

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Thanks...I hate working with acrylic glass

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Do you have to score both sides?...

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The control planes on these old boats were far away from being placed in ideal positions. That's also the reason the bow plane configuration of U9 changed...

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What's the best way to cut acrylic glass sheet material? I want to finish the U1 molds and for that I have to cut acrylic to get a plane against which...

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Do the motors run in the wet? Did you test it? Would be an option for my U1....

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laminated the second conning tower today. First try wasn't perfect with voids here and there. So it's a second one, this time with thinner, more flexible...

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Getting there.....I'm coming close to the point, where aditional detail wn't be possible to add in 1/72 scale. But nt there yet.


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Copper oxide is green....corroded contact?

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Finsihed the mind numbing task to drill open all the holes on the deck wth 0,4 mm bits. About 20 of those drill bits lost theitr life during the mission....

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I finished the molds for the conning tower and opened them. Went reasonably well, but again, I had little section of surface primer stuck in the mold,...

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While making molds, I have to take care of the additional parts that will be needed. On example are the sub deck structures that house the air intake...

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On Sunday I laminated the first halve of the conning tower mold and filled the box with a mixture of resin and quartz sand. Literally it makes for a rock...

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Finished the box and set the alignment bolts (10 mm steel rods). Then I applied the surface resin and covered everything with cotton flakes as a coupling...

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The International Maritime Museum Hamburg does not only have a good XXIII model but also an original prop of the class on display outside. As the rust...

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Continued with the Shchuka. I added the deck...straightforward job, good fit, only minimal filling and sanding needed. Then it was time for the first...