Type 26 City-Class frigate by NavyShooter - 3D Print - 1/144 - Display

[NavyShooter]

Alrighty, 

 

Calling V1 complete - it's headed for the CO's office first thing next week.  She will hopefully appreciate it.  

 

My hope is also that other leadership around the base will see it and will go "HEY, I WANT ONE TOO" and my day job will get busier making these....I figure I can put out about 1/month of this quality.  More detail will take longer. 

 

V2 got a layer of putty today and will dry over the weekend.  

[NavyShooter]

Here's V2 with a layer of putty applied. 

[NavyShooter]

And here we are, HMCS Fraser DDH 240 is complete.

 

Decals are applied and clear-coated. 

 

I'm generally pleased with how she looks - hull #2 will be better - second coat of putty was just applied.

Hull #2 will also have a more accurate weapons loadout - I've made a model of both the SEA RAM launcher and the NSM, so CIWS and Harpoon will disappear on the next version. 

 

[NavyShooter]

Well, hull #1 was presented to my unit's CO yesterday - she was quite pleased with the Fraser.

 

Moving along with V2, she got a dose of putty, then some sanding yesterday morning. 

[NavyShooter]

I gave her a shot of primer yesterday before I headed home and she looked - OK. 

[NavyShooter]

Today she got another shot of putty which dried quickly and got sanded, finished the sanding with some 180 grit - good enough for this one.  At end of today, she's gray primed, and almost ready for some blue on the hull.  

 

I need to print and add the prop shafts in the morning then I'll be able to paint. 

[NavyShooter]

Hull #2 got a layer of blue today...then some minor putty addition, some sanding, and a final layer of blue to set over the weekend.

 

Next week will see me getting the ship's side Gray done on the uppers, painting the 'non-skid' parts, then detailing.  This one's probably going to be done by the end of next week.

 

NS
 

 

[NavyShooter]

The CIWS I had on V1 was the 20mm Phalanx...and that's not the right version.

Turns out the 'correct' version (for now, conceptually) is the 11 shot SeaRAM launcher with the radome.

 

So....here we go.  Some more 3D design work. 

[NavyShooter]

Anddd.....bumped into a buddy over the weekend who's working on the project, and it turns out I had the right version of the RAM launcher initially....

 

The 11 shot SeaRAM launcher is (I think - based on my assumptions) designed for ships that need a stand-alone AA missile system.

 

The 21 shot launcher is designed for ships that have an integrated Combat Management system and don't need a launcher with it's own integral detection/engagement Radar system. 

 

So.

 

Back to the 21 shot launcher I guess. 

 

[NavyShooter]

OK, so, paint is applied, I need to paint the decks (tomorrow) and then we can start glue action to put some of the little bits on!

[NavyShooter]

V2 is ready for decals, and some of the 'detail bits' have been glued on.

 

 

[NavyShooter]

Hoisted a flag (ok, it's glued in place...whatever....) and am calling V2 complete.

 

Here we have DDH 241 - HMCS MacKenzie

 

The next one will be the first of the R/C version(s?) - we'll see how it goes.

 

I'm quite pleased with how this is looking. I understand that this is closer to the 'actual' look, but not quite correct - V3 has further revisions to the superstructure to match the RCN version more closely.

 

[Javelin]

Is the RCN weaponry, more specifically the SSM and RAM equipment supposed to be installed in these positions? The RAM not being centered I can understand, but I'd at least have expected the SSM (Kongsberg NSM?), to be devided between Portside and Starboard side? 

[NavyShooter]

8 hours ago, Javelin said:

Is the RCN weaponry, more specifically the SSM and RAM equipment supposed to be installed in these positions? The RAM not being centered I can understand, but I'd at least have expected the SSM (Kongsberg NSM?), to be devided between Portside and Starboard side? 

 

I have no formal confirmation as to exactly where things go, so this is my 'best guess' based on some informal chats with some friends. 

 

I'm open to being incorrect....in fact, I know there's parts of this model that are wrong, but that's OK since the ships themselves don't even exist yet. 

 

Nice thing about it being a 3D design is that I can adjust on the fly, and V3 will be closer than V2....and V4 will be even closer still. 

[NavyShooter]

Today was the test launch day for V4 of the VLS system.

 

Worked ok.  

 

I sealed the entry point for the ignitor into the launch tube with hot glue, and it looks like one of them didn't seal quite perfectly, that's OK...it's a learning curve.

The second was better sealed.

The brass plates I glued into the J-tube at the bottom got blasted apart - viewed with a flashlight, it's clearly destroyed.  The one without the brass survived the shot OK as well - so - I think I'm going to go without the brass and make them expendable after a single shot instead of worrying about the brass if it's going to get destroyed anyhow. 

The missiles - first shot went straight up about 60-80 feet or so and the parachute ejection charge went "pop" quite nicely up in the air. Shredded the 'missile' - I considered it expendable anyhow, so no big deal. I had the launch door open for the first shot, so it went straighter.

The second shot I left the launch door closed, and it opened just fine when fired - but I think that deflected the shot and so it went across instead of up - ended up about 30 feet away, 30 feet up in a tree when it popped the parachute ejection charge.

Overall - I am pleased.

 

 

[NavyShooter]

Here's some screen captures from the video. 

[ddp]

how far did it fly & was the flight straight?

[NavyShooter]

The two test shots went between 30-80 feet I think.

 

The one fired with the cover/door open already flew straighter than the one which had the door closed.

 

I'm pondering the results.

[NavyShooter]

Here's some better slow-motion video:

 

 

 

[ddp]

ran into that problem with the unintentional side venting when i modified a single engine Honest John missile( about 4ft in height) with 1 D series rocket engine to a 3 D series engines to get more height. i made a cone to fit over the combine tops of the 3 motors that goes into a tube leading to the parachute & removeable nose cone. so when the ejection charges of the 3 motors went off, the charges goes thru the cone into the tube causing the nose to pop off & deploy the chute to bring the whole rocket hopefully safely to the ground, supposedly. it did not work like that but worked like how the real  Honest John worked. it was a night launch so i connected the voltage probe so that it's light came on, inserted it into the nose cone of the rocket so it glowed thru the green paint of the nose cone & launched the rocket. you can see the light of the nose cone & the 3 rocket motors push the rocket vertical for a few hundred feet til the motors stopped running then see the whole rocket with the light on in the cone come speeding down to the ground a few hundred feet from the launch site were it impacted the ground hard & destroyed the rocket. the parachute did not deploy because when the 3 ejection charges went off into that cone, instead of going thru the tube to the parachute, the blast from the charges bounced of the inside of the cone & vented thru the openings caused by the shape of the 3 motors in a circular shape with the base of the cone venting backwards not forward so no force to pop the nose cone off & deploy the chute. if i had plugged those openings then the rocket might have worked properly but we will never know.

 

when the door is closed when launching your rocket, is the door lid causing the rocket to go on an angle as the lid brushes against the rocket as the rocket leaves the silo whereas with the door already open, the lid does not brush against the rocket as it leaves the silo therefore the rocket goes vertical?