Cold Waters / Sea Power players / discussion thread

[NicholasRadzykewycz]

Anyone here play Cold Waters / Sea Power? I've found it's been very fun and enhanced my knowledge of modern submarine tactics and concepts substantia...

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I am so glad I undertook this entire texturing / Blender exercise because I am learning all kinds of important lessons about the importance of...

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No was talking more about like rubber band torpedoes not electric drive

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I am wondering if anyone has tried to make a fully biodegradable torpedo for use in dark, murky water where recovery of a spent torpedo is almost impossible....

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I decided to play around with Blender for making a preview of my Submarine in it's final color scheme. Still lots of work to do on render quality...

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I know a local shop here that has all the fancy polyurethane molding and stuff that can set these up for production if there are no other takers. Production...

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Congratulations new skipper. I am still working on my first boat so I know the excitement....

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Nope, not used it before. Curious if anyone else has....

[NicholasRadzykewycz]

Based on my personal observations and design for my own boat which will have the forward facing sonar I highly recommend these units: https://deepers...

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About 24 inches long and about 23 inches wide. Weighs around 12 lbs so far. I don't expect I will need to make any more size revisions but will have to...

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Oh I should also mention this will be a WTCless design. Instead there will be a box in the forward compartment completely filled with marine dielectric...

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The plan is to have the whole thing screw together using melt in stainless steel threaded inserts which work very well with the 3D printed plastics. They...

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So forgive the terrible drawing quality as it is very far from complete and I still have a long way to go with all the mechanics and am...

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I agree it definitely imposes unusual limitations, but hey it's a fantasy boat so I'm kind of prepared to have features and performance characteristics...

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I was going for most realistic to the game. In the game the boat cannot move forward while surfaced, so I suspect that either I will just accept the ventilation...

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This design has a lot of interesting and unusual features, for example to get that enormous freeboard in surface trim is currently requiring an enormous...

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Yep that is the exact plan. I should have probably made a post outlining the mechanical and electronic systems aboard. I will draw up an outline of the...

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If I was an expert, I wouldn't be asking about required pool dimensions would I? I want to understand what the requirements are so that they can be documented...