That_1Nathan_Guy

Another very cool subject to model! I'm looking forward to seeing more of it! I'd do one at 1/35, but I'll have to finish some other projects first.

Haze - Here is the hull, almost ready to loft. Still working on finishing up some details on the bow and stern. Hopefully in the next couple of days I'll get all the little things finished.

I just started getting into radio controlled boats and wanted to make something a little different than what everyone else runs, and after some looking around, decided to try building an RC model of the USS Maine. I haven't decided on the scale yet, but once I get the model done in Fusion, I can deal with that part pretty easily. I came across this thread and your fabulous model after I started modelling the hull and some of the various assemblies used on the USS Maine. I found and downloaded all of the the scanned original drawings from the National Archives and a couple of other places, so have been working through those making parts here and there. I was quite happy to find the lofting table for the hull, and created a spreadsheet to convert the feet - inches - eighths into decimal feet, which I then export to a comma separated list, and then import into Fusion using the ImportSplineCSV in the utilities. Most of the frames are pretty easy to do, the bow and the lofts have required some extra work, because the data is coming from a couple of different tables and the loft table stops short of the keel and stern, but I almost have the data cleaned up enough to do a pretty nice hull model. The way I have the data set up, I can save both frames and lofts, them import them and loft the hull surface pretty much perfectly. Still a few data points to refine around the bow and stern to get everything to connect properly for a proper looking 3d hull model. My plan is to print the hull and large details out on my beefed up Voron 2.4 that has a 350 x 350 x 400 build area using ABS, and the fine details will be done on my Anycubic resin printers. Any chance you have gotten to the point where you are ready to share the files in some form? I haven't started the superstructure yet and that part is a little bit daunting at the moment.