Arvia by Dave Wood - FINISHED - 1:250 - P&O Cruise Ship

[Javelin]

With regards to bow thrusters, normally the propellors turn in the same direction, but the thrusters are mounted opposite in the tunnels. So one will have the propellor facing portside (motor or gearbox SB) and the other opposite. Not sure with a 4-prop arrangement if the'd go 2-2 or 1-1-1-1. 

 

This is done to avoid the offset of such thrusters. When running on 0-force they do push a little to 1 side, so by reversing the installation with 2 or 4 thrusters  they cancel each other out.

[Dave Wood]

Thanks Javelin for the info  - have updated the bow thrusters to add in motors that are on opposite side of propellors that turn in the same direction.
Will add some grills too at some point

[Dave Wood]

Good progress made today on printing the underwater hull. One of the biggest problems is that the Azipods are so small - but managed to get them to work - prints a little bit stringy - but I think I can clean them up.   1:1000 version (which is 1/4 of the size of the big ship in this thread) now more or less complete - just need to do a final reporting tomorrow with the bow thruster props and stabilisers too.