Cleaned up the mold a bit $10 on eBay, 16x stuffing tubes Alignment bolts Cleaned up the seam And filled with epoxy stuffing tube in other ship because I had extra filler mixed should knock out a couple hulls this weekend
Epoxy batch was bad (hardner pump failure) which set me back a few hours. Hull 1 is in the mold First one will be c3 variant
Just for things I need a small batch size for. I’m also burning down my dad’s old inventory so the cost to me is nil. The hull is US composites export which is between cost of West systems and polyester, with the benefit of being able to use it in my apartment. Steve will get to use polyester when I bring the mold over to Marty’s for mass production
Third ones in the mold (pictures get repetitive) Bogue hull trimed had to tweak motor mount to allow for shorter shaft Rough subdeck Up a hat trick c3: 3 Kongo: 0
More work this weekend Algol coming together water channel rudder solid now Motor rudder servo mount in c3 subdeck and decks cut out deck rim in c3. I typically have windows cut first which makes it easier to set height, needed to improvise internal armor Algol hopefully one or two operational by next weekend
Little bit of work today Trimed edge taped edge and inverted to fill in gaps with epoxy Sub-deck in bogue
Quick epoxy job while working on another build. both previous jobs came out well deck edge on c3 and underside gaps in bogue
Plugging away motors in Love the simple electronics back in the day I spent more time on superstructure sea trials for both this weekend hopefully
Pond time Tested water channel. Met the goal of bow down, will need to scale it back a bit Also got c3 out there. Seeing how what displacement will be good Will need to put on a smaller prop, this one was too close to the water surface algol should be about done, just need to glue some weight, cosmetics, add a bit of waterchannel in the bow. C3 will be cut out soon, shift to smaller prop. Both ships will pivot about their center, moving backwards slightly. Waterchannel in c3 will be more uniform bow/stern
was the goal of channeling for bow-down to make for a spectacular sink when the time came? If so, that's awesome.
I could be wrong but under thrust the water's going to slosh to the back, by building the water channeling so the water wants to collect up front it should give the boat a little bit more survivability instead of the traditional water goes to the back the back of the boat goes under the boat sinks. Should help keep her a bit more even until the final plunge. Either that, or I'm overthinking it and it's just for bow-down sinks
Basically what Will said. she was too nose down today, making reverse both futile and fatal. Looked much better at speed though
Oh, let me tell you about re-setting the Texas to be lower in the water toward the bow without reconfiguring the water channeling..... Even under full power, the water didn't slosh back fully. the situation gets ever more comical as more comes in. when she hits that 'critical point' where she's still afloat, but *just* about to sink, if you gun the motors, then the whole bow will finally dump into the rest of the boat and she does the disappearing ship act. She didn't sink by the bow, but having that big slug of water in the hull was like a sword of Damocles. Easy fix. but man, that was hilarious.
Cut them out today first half First hull was thicker than needed cut out the other side today second hull about an hour later maybe first hull again next will be water channel, deck mounts, internal armor
