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I decided to do some painting this evening. Then I decided I liked how things looked, so I dug out some aircraft and accessories, and staged them for a picture. Enjoy! (Still more painting to do inside the Bridge and Flyco - the chairs will get painted, the chart table and the status board and so on - and the deck needs another layer of waterway gray to touch it up a bit.)
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Greeting from Pennsylvania
NavyShooter replied to New England Captain's topic in New member Introductions
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That's a great build that you have going! I've embraced 3D printed ships and accessories of late as well, but do not the skill to transfer a full hull drawing to a 3D print. For any who are interested in an 'easy' build Landing Craft, there's one available on Thingiverse - https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:2003327 It is not a detailed scale version, but it has left me sorely tempted to try and build it! Your LCT's are much more accurate and detailed - I applaud your work! NS
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It only LOOKS organized because the pictures are staged. 🙂 Here's how the new version of the Bridge looks. It's the partially blue one in the middle. I ran out of Gray filament, so I had to switch colour. (No, it doesn't impact the size...but that leaves me to note that I've used all of the 11 spools of gray filament I bought 2 months ago now...) It's out in the garage right now having been given a fresh coat of gray paint....we'll see how it looks tomorrow. I've got a request out for colour pictures of the inside of the bridge and the Flyco compartment - I'm guessing similar to what we have inside our ships now with white walls and a dark grey deck (we called it "waterway gray" in the Navy.)
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And... a couple of hours of work with some sand paper, putty, glue, and a layer of primer...and we have 8x Trackers painted.
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This evening, I got the wall mount up for the Bonnie - here's her 'wall' home:
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That is a beautiful model sir! Well done! As a sailor who's been aboard the Bluenose II, it's a thing of beauty and you captured the essence well. (Note I was only onboard for a couple of day-sails - not as crew. A good friend of mine was employed as the Stoker for a full tourist season one year. I was slightly jealous!) NS
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Welcome aboard! That's a great display case of completed projects! Be careful....it'll probably fill up and you'll need another one!
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Here was the location of 'loss' at the top right (showing as '0' on the measuring line) My house is in the bottom left corner, with the dock at 520m.
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Had her out on the lake last evening and determined that there is a maximum range...she left visible controlled navigation at about 500 meters (1600 feet or so) and ran aground across the lake from me. Had to dig out the canoe to affect a rescue. No damage to the ship, but I did lose the rear hatch cover. I'll go reprint one and we'll be all fixed up.
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Lou, I've thought magnets, but am not sure how well that would work with the magnets in the fuselage. I'm thinking maybe putting the aircraft on a small clear plastic sheet with a magnetic element on it and putting magnets under the flight deck for when the ship will be sailed. When the ship is static - I can put the aircraft wherever and however I want. I've got the trackers assembled - each one took about 15 grams of lead/copper in the nose and wheel wells to get them to return to flat when tipped up on their tails.
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So, in one of those 'glad for another set of eyes...disappointed that I missed it myself' moments, I gave a scaled down version of the 3D printed bridge to another modeler for his 1/350 scale model of the Bonnie, and he was able to give me some constructive feedback indicating that I'd screwed up some dimensions. In 1/96 scale, it was 29mm short... So...I did some mucking about with scaling, and ended up increasing it's size to 111% tonight. And then I spent some time adding some additional detail bits (see all those bracing struts?) and tweaked a couple of minor errors in the model based on the latest print. This also made it too big to print in the large pieces I've been using...so it's now cut apart into two halves, and a top and bottom. I have another 50 hours of printing ahead of me I guess! Version 6, here we come!
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Gaelic perhaps? Looks like a great build! A suggestion for your prop (I see you hammered one out on your own) there's a guy in the UK that is able to make custom props- the Prop Shop - his name is Simon. https://www.prop-shop.co.uk/ I've bought a bunch of props from him - kort nozzle ones for a tugboat, WW2 style ones for my aircraft carrier and my Liberty Ship. (Note, I had to sand off the tail-cone of the prop here to fit with my rudder.)
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Having the work bench partially cleared let me lay out the Trackers. I've got a full squadron of 8 printed, and they're ready for assembly. The sharp eyed might note the small, copper jacketed, lead cored weight that I'm planning to install in the nose of each of the fuselages. A bit of drilling, a bit of glue to secure it, and I'll have a nice (mostly) lead weight holding the nose down as the Tracker models are all notoriously tail heavy!
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So, the overall performance of the ship 'at sea' is fairly poor in terms of turning radius, so I cut and formed a new rudder this evening. Took about an hour or so to cut, drill, drill and tap, then form the shape. I'm going to wait for a nice calm evening and see if the turning radius drops from about 50 feet to maybe 30...the low speed turning performance is fairly poor and I realize that a scale rudder is usually limited. The scale rudder has been added inside the hull for ballast.
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I'm also now onto Version 5 of my 3D printed Island. It'll be finished up about this time tomorrow evening!
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I spent a couple of hours out in the shop this evening - I spent most of my time working on tidying up and building a new rudder for my Liberty Ship - and I put up the shelf that I'm planning to have the Lib Ship hang out on - but then in order to get work-space on benches sorted out, I put the Bonnie up there. There will be a larger, lower shelf for the Bonnie.
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Not sure why the Banshee pic in the post above isn't showing up...so here it is again. Also, here's the 3D printed Landing Light platform that I put together. Damn near perfectly flush with the flight deck!
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Welcome aboard! I might have a pdf of a printed ship model of a Canadian Mine Sweeper that I can dig up and send you if you're interested? Not sure if that's what you're looking to build. Enjoy your time here - there are some master builders on this site, and I'm no-where near their level of skill! This place is open to folks of all capabilities!
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Looking for an Anchor Winch - RC Boat
NavyShooter replied to NavyShooter's topic in RC Kits & Scratch building
Thanks for the suggestion Lou - that's about all that seems to come up when I hit google. -
Decals on the Banshees are done. At last!
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Good afternoon all, I'm on the hunt for an Anchor Winch. I've got an R/C Aircraft carrier (see my thread on the Bonnie if you're interested) and I'd like to have a functional anchor onboard. Can anyone recommend a good, functional winch system that I could buy? Thanks! NS
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I woke up...and here's what we have: That looks a lot better! I started another print as I headed out to work this morning, so I'll get home and find another one waiting. I've reached out to order some decals for them now as well. Progress! I've also created myself a 'print queue' for what I've got to print, and it's looking pretty busy: 2x HO4S 2x Tracker 1x Larger scale Bonnie Hull (I can fit about 1/680 scale onto my print bed!) 4x Sea King 2x - Mystery Plane 1x Tool Holder for my Hex keys and snippers
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Parts arrived for the printer - 3 hours of fiddling about to figure out how to rebuild and more importantly re-align everything, and we're printing again. I'll wake up in the morning to a HOS4....
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Here's an example of the failed print of the HO4S helicopter - the problem was with a leak in the hot end of the printer, so I was getting a pool/puddle of hot liquid filament on top of the heater block...which would randomly drop onto the model while printing, resulting in the poor results see on the left with the helo. I also found a 3D model of the Bonnie (complete) that I tried printing. She's a bit small (see the #8 screw head for size comparison) but you get the idea.
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