I just started working on a Yamato, would you consider sharing your 3d models so I could print them for my ship?
Progress!! found a decent Yamato model that i could scale and slice up to print. only 4 more sections to go. or about 30 hours of printing. and once again my i3 change filament setting saved me. woke up about 3 hours into an overnight print (that bottom took forever) and i had may 20 feet of filament left on another 7 hours of printing. tomorrow it will get in place testing of all guns and solenoid and prop testing if all goes well... last 2 guns will wait until monday as the printer is occupied until then
Nicely detailed superstructure. Can you share where you got the CAD model? Some guys in my club are working on a Yamato.
progress switched back to regular guns as the BIC where running 40-42 rounds per load and was having issues with eating springs had a sheet of scrap 1/32 pvc coated aluminum laying around so armor installed the cooling pickups for the esc. 90% of the aft is done. need to install the rudder servo still Need to install a bottle holder front is all done including wiring but the harness leads need extended as i moved the whole unit forward 6 inches Mk2 boat carrier. cut off the front and added two wheels. works nice and fits Kongo and Yamato. still needs finished gluing and some rope or something up front to drag it with.
excessive travel of the interrupter pin seems to be what was causing the springs to get destroyed. was having a hard time getting them to feed 100% of the time. only one of 3 guns that i finished would eat springs but that was enough to back burner until i can figure it out.
That would seem to imply that either the interrupter pin is too short or that the piston cavity is too deep.
so begins the painful process of skinning. only took about 30 minutes to get that one side almost done
skinned and other than waterline mark painted!. need to install the secondaries and do a final electrical test and Yamato is ready for it's first failure.
parts of it are in the resources here. but that one in particular is a rip of a yamato complete hull i found on thingiverse
And the Brushless ESC lost their little brains so to 770 cans i went. as well as replaced the firing board i fried and cleaned up wiring and CO2 lines. pipe clamp motor mounts are secured with a large amount of epoxy putty coated in west system epoxy after it dried good. more managable wiring harness some improvements could be made but for now it works. new Solenoids to replace the one that froze. mounted on a puck with a ziptie. worked better than expected double test switches are nice and clean messed up and overfilled my epoxy pot and made one connector non functioning. luckily i have a triple and bench testing is done! everything works! new solenoids are super quiet and the new motors are even quieter than the brush-less where and actually produce enough power. need to speed test and adjust ballast.
