Thanks Mark. Unfortunately I’ve been tied up with several battles over the past month, back to work this weekend Cleaned up last epoxy job, deck pieces so they fit in. Goal today is to epoxy whole deck rim and deck, do water channel, print secondaries, install forward deck magnets, work on turrets . Progress thus far Need to add the overhang area, will use 1/8” ply so I can add bolts for barrel tip holder
Drilled holes for magnets. 5/16 brad point bit Look of superstructure. Hardest part of the build haha Printed up some secondaries Hatch for reloading. Hopefully it will work out Next was water channel. Feather lite 2-part I used on Courbets. Barriers Filled. Taping takes way longer than mix and pour. I like this method way better than the old balsa and glass, much faster Tiny portion in stern, probably won’t have huge impact from small volume Magnets laid out for epoxy. Need ready access and correct orientation Turrets, need to add barrel forward, mount aft Magnets in and epoxy coat over all wood Turrets Deck pieces Hatch Clean things up in morning, internal armor, then start installing things
Made rudder, sized it a few weeks ago, standard construction Cleaned up water channel edges Internal armor, pet resistant door screen Pump mount, navigating motors is always interesting Secondaries Superstructure layout. Might paint tomorrow Next step will be installing everything, main guts will come from Fiji so the boat could be functional very shortly. Need to put guns together and make up mounts for magazines. Might sheet as well
Another good day. Reload hatch Motors and shafts in for good, pump mount as well Aft deck magnetic tape Bent magazines and made holders Must avoid pump, outline drawn in middle there Will still tweak mags slightly once mounts are dry Standby for guts transfer. And a few minutes later With bulk of internals. Will end up with just one zippy pack, ran out of room/weight for more batteries. Everything tested out with my ‘new’ backup radio that I converted to buttons last weekend. Lützow should be an easy secondary ship to help out any in the axis fleet that need her for second sortie with the new rule Another more-complete staging of superstructure. Weight might get tight, will be near max mad likely Will be a couple weeks until I get to spend another full day on build, a few small things to wrap up over a few weeknights. Pretty cool to see the amount of progress over the past three days, empty hull to almost complete
Assembled guns Next weekend will be paint, sheet, test systems, probably sea trials during the following week, should be ready to go for nats
Back to work, sheeted the boat today along with capital ships for nats Painted deck too Painted superstructure, will glue down tomorrow Plan to finish it up tomorrow, float test, finish mounts inside, barrel holders, paint
More work in today. Glued SS on. Boat floats, leaks a bit. Currently at 12 lbs, will probably end up around 13. Trim was good, only will need to add weight to middle. Swapped out for larger rudder chain after losing confidence in small stuff Made gun aimer, to converge at 24” Came out decent, test firing had two really close, 3rd one was a bit special so I’ll play with it some more Worked on random mounts and guards. This is for the dogbones Came out good, will keep gun hoses off Tested guns more or less successful. Might swap out some fittings based on having better design on some other builds. Hopefully sea trials Tuesday or Wednesday evening
I must admit... I'm a little envious of the detail and thought into this build. did you make the gears and chain for the rudder or purchase them?
Thanks Mark! Looks like she is coming together nicely, I’m glad I opted for the full rebuild since she should be a solid boat for a while. Sprocket and chain for rudder came from servocity.com. I’ve used it on about 7-8 ships and am very satisfied with it. Floated and painted bottom today Just need to make up some trim weights and get to sea trials probably Thursday, and she’ll be ready for Nats!
I'll check them out. thanks for the info.... Triple sterns are nasty! I like them on my next build..... Mark
Made it out on sea trials today. Boat works. Slows down a good deal in turns which is expected for prop/rudder combo. Stays afloat in reverse. Rolls a good deal in turns. Looks pretty good at speed Checking impact for guns, just about where I planned and where the three converge. Should have some punch Decided to swap the props for better reverse kick, and allow a higher forward throttle setpoint. Hopefully she gets some battle time next week, she will be a ready-spare/backup for the axis fleet
Post refit sea trials. Shifted to 555’s and cut-down fletcher kit props, performance was great. Will need to mess around with the ESC a bit rolls like crazy in the turns still
Nice work. But one question for you. What sized shafts did you use? I have a cut Graf Spee hull but I am concerned that i will end up putting the motors underneath where the stern cannons would be.
Added bilge keels and will be swapping to plastic magazines to reduce rolling Basswood CA-Ed to the hull fiberglass the underside cut down the size And paint can’t wait to test them out this week
Got the plastic mags installed and tested today. At some point in the future will need to bend the tubes up so I can use the refill hatch, probably make a holder Also identified that one of the barrels had a ding on the end that was causing the BBs to fly way off path - filled it done and now have a good grouping Hopefully test it out tomorrow before the Oakboro battle
Hi Kevin I am trying to rewire a dollhouse for my granddaughter. I want to use 5 led bulbs to replace the flashlight bulbs I used 30 years ago for my daughter. LED 222 bulb E-10 base 1.5 to 3 volt Bright 25 lumen I have a power supply. Puzom model pv-8-601A Input AC 100-250V 50/60 Hz Output DC 6V 1A I tried to post this on the warship combat site but had no luck. If you or anyone else reading this has an opinion or suggestion it would be greatly appreciated. Someday I hope to battle my FIJI. Thanks Dave Vogtman
Hi Dave, I would try to wire the LEDs up in series, probably 3x so you get 2V across each LED. If you can do two strings in parallel of 3 LEDs that would probably be best (6 total bulbs). Let me know if you have any more questions Hope to see you at a battle next year!
