So has anyone built a working drydock? I was just sitting in front of my ships watching paint dry and thought about how cool it would be to have a working movable floating drydock like the onse the navy uses that could pick up and move a 1/144 battleship. I may be crazy but it the idea seems fun haha
was looking at building an ABSD A WHILE BACK they had up to 10 (Pontoon) sections, could not find cross section plans for the pontoon hulls
I am thinking oh building a dock just to see if I can do it. Was thinking of using the piston ballast tank tech you see in the big scale rc subs as the raising and lowering with 4 tanks using a motor each to "screw" the piston forward pushing the water out. The above water appearance would be that of scale looking dry dock with the below water being more functional with drive motors and the ballast system.
Hey guys, I was thing about that two as I might be getting a 96scale DD and I have a 144th scale cruiser. And I went to to fit them together.. Nikki
http://www.floatingdrydock.com/FDLOGO.jpg That is the floating drydock I was thinking about building.
Thats a pretty cool looking drawing. My original plan was to build something large enough to handle the biggest BBs in our scale, but I enlisted in the USMC and am currently a "poolee" so i'll be focused on that for the foreseen future. all projects are being put on hold probably for quite some time as a result.
Ah, well, if it was PI, I'd have come to your graduation. MCRD SD is too long a drive lol What MOS are you going for?
Ah yes it is a bit of a drive lol but thank you for the thought! My MOS will be infantry with the hopes of getting a tryout for scout sniper.
Very good. A long time ago, I held the MOS of 0352, Assault Antitank Missile Gunner (TOW gunner), with a secondary of 0313 LAV crewman.
