Ian_Grant

This is the Bondo Spot/Glazing Putty? I saw a prop maker (armour, star wars helmets, etc) on youtube using this as a first coat ONLY on large ridges and grooves, then thinning it with acetone and brushing on to fill smaller grooves and reduce sanding effort/time. I plan to try this on my 3D print hull. I remember seeing the type 26 file on cgtrader. There's also a very nice RC minesweeper model which tempted me "bigly" (a la Trump).............

Very very nice!

And to you, Michael!

I do know that the 4-masted barque Admiral Karpfanger ex L'Avenir sent a radio message in Nov 1939 saying all was well as she approached Cape Horn, then was never heard from again, so the radios had good range.

Happy New Year, Bill!

Here is a short video of an early galley sea trial at a boat club winter meeting at a rented local pool, if interested. No decorations or deck details added at the time; only some painting; no rudders yet. (not to hijack your build; carry on......)

Extremely cool tech! Are you a fellow retired engineer? I used an Arduino to control the oars in my RC Roman galley, writing code to read the throttle and rudder inputs and control the oars via two servos per side; one for the fore-aft motion and one for up/down. The model can't overcome much of a breeze, and I found even my oversized rudders couldn't steer her at her slow speed. She's on the shelf until I have more time and ideas. Writing the code was fun, even though I was a hardware guy all my career. 😏

Thirty servos!! Just how long is this model? My 1/150 HMS Lion from WW1 is about 54" long; I used mini servos for turret traverse. It would be impressive to have elevation too but the turrets from the 70's are solid wood (this is a "restoration" build on one of my teenage builds). There is plenty of room in fact I was planning to add smoke but the smoke unit I bought has a mind of its own as far as actually making smoke. Looking forward to your build.......... Ian ps: if you click on "follow" at the top of your log, you'll get automatic notifications if someone adds a comment.

There seem to be more and more 3D printed ships showing up here. I've started one too. It's interesting. My hull section #4, a 22 hr print, seems to have warped as it cooled even though I added inner and outer brims. Trying to decide how to proceed...... Do you plan to have the turrets rotate? Access along the hull inside looks to be restricted by your joiners. Looking forward to more! ian

Looking very nice! Will be very pretty on the water......

Just found your log. Great work! You described yourself as a Fusion neophyte (!) but you seem to have picked it up quickly and well. I've often read about sculpting hulls in Fusion but never dared try it. Your progress has been very rapid. I just started printing an RC ship too but I simply bought the folders of .stl files for my printer. So far the hull sections are done. I hope I can move through the rest at a similar pace as you! Ian

Merry Christmas to you too! She's looking great! Don't know why this is typing in bold letters! I could have saved you some knots by telling you that not all ratlines pass across all the lower shrouds, in fact only every fifth one......too late now.....a good reference to have for Victory is Longridge's Anatomy of Nelson's Ships in which stuff like this is detailed. It has very very detailed notes on line and block sizes for each piece of rigging.

She's looking great, John! Are you going to detail the upstairs interior.....I recall the drawings even had the positions of the china cabinet's legs marked, looking forward to your 1/96 furniture! Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!

All eight hull sections printed, consuming over 100 hours of print time. And nearly three reels of filament. I've epoxied together only the first two thus far, using JB Weld which is my new favourite epoxy despite its black colour. I'm waiting for some fiberglass cloth seam tape to arrive to put some more epoxy inside this joint before adding more sections, because the enclosed front half would quickly become unwieldy to access for joint reinforcement. The design is such that the superstructure is not removable if built according to instructions. I'm not sure I like that idea as that's a lot of hull interior that can only be reached by sliding your arm in from the admittedly large opening when the removable upper vehicle deck is removed. The designer's goal was to prevent superstructure damage due to handling, were it removable. I'll have to print some of the superstructure parts before deciding what to perhaps have removable, if only to be able to fiddle with any ballast in her front half. I also had a look at some of the superstructure files. They surprised me with the time and plastic they will take to print too. I was thinking after the hull things would move quickly but there are more 12-hour prints ahead. I also discovered I don't like the lifeboat file; I will try my "Titanic lifeboat" file when I reach that point. Here she is sitting in front of the nearly-completed HMS Lion. That's a 12" ruler sitting in front. Merry Christmas to my so-far zero followers!!!

Just stumbled across your build - what a beautiful model! Ultra-realistic looking rigging.......immaculate paintwork........