Internal armor and sheeting today Personal references for window depth C3 Steve laid up a hull finally and bogue Paint and internals next
Convinced the gf to spend the day painting the convoys. Also installed motors/servos in all 3. stack of convoys
Trying to get these in the done pile so I can shift back to the other builds Printed up a spool Also printed a pump holder for the bogue. Same design I typically use but cheaper and less effort Pick your spot, drill through the top 4x, add screws filled Algol SS with foam, added spool Last epoxy job on Algol tomorrow, c3 SS last thing remaining on her
This superstructure is brought to you by the numbers 7, 9, and 5! pretty ugly spool cutout spool v2 final epoxy job on Algol and c3 is drying
Steve knocked out 6 hulls, I dropped off printed parts Friday Might not even need to patch during campaign
Resumed work on the bogue Finished deck stuff, forward and aft platforms fwd deck Steve gave me a campaign sign to chop up for the deck. Hole is for the float, magnets along the length magnets worked out well I think Float spool need to draw up the control tower, paint it, hopefully sea trials this week
I'd love to have one of those for a non-combatant pond "toy". I'd put my waterproof speaker mounted right on the deck, and fill it with batteries for charging it, lol. would be awesome up at the lake my wife's family goes on vacation at. take the batteries out and speaker off and use t as an RC toy. Could also do the same for a camera and get some action shots from outside the battle.
Few more pics Got her to sink level list, bow down Bow deck is under at this point, pumped out from there
This year I decided to make a printable version of c3 and bogue. It’s a simple hull form, and the fiberglass ones tested out propulsion/rudder so I felt confident using it as my first self-printed boat. I’ll add some fusion pictures later, but here are some build shots of the first c3 hull. Here are hull pieces with support intact Here is motor mount, the same one from my earlier builds but now integral to the hull. A 540 motor driving 1” prop direct drive works great for this size convoy. I had some issues with getting the supports out from within the mount, so that will be modified for future iterations. I added a wall at the top of the windows to make attaching internal armor easier and to block the top in the bow/stern. I cut out shower pan liner and glued it on to add a layer of protection and hopefully reduce ricochets rudder mount, same that I used before on the fiberglass hulls. here is the boat glued together. I used e6000 Here is finished product before nationals. the boat did well, didn’t need any extra ballast. I will probably drop the bottom of the windows a bit further, maybe scale up superstructure and add more I’ll add some more pictures later
Found a few more photos. Here are insides, running 2s 15Ah life packs I have. The max discharge on my convoy packs was less than 4ah. Pump for draining water between runs, underside of float Superstructure float, was not tested by orange fleet at nats. Rope is bolted through hull to retrieve boat Before sheeting Taking measurements helps mark legal waterline once sides are on
Last shots before she went up on the shelf until next nats Motor and receiver, position isn’t great so might try something else in future pump mount recover float anchor prop and rudder
